Bluecigar

Last week Isaac developed conjunctivitis and to keep Mama on her toes he also contracted a nasty respiratory infection called Bronchiolitis. To allay his misery from these ailments, I am tasked with medicating (a.k.a. torturing) my child. How to treat the yellow gooey matter oozing from behind his red eyes? Take a small metal tube of antibacterial ointment and simply squeeze the long metal applicator into the lower lids of the eyes. What the instructions don’t tell you is that the baby will thrash his head violently from side to side and cry hysterically making this task nearly impossible. And how do we treat bronchial inflammation that makes a child cough so incessantly that he vomits and is breathless? A nebulizer that uses Albuterol. Once again the instructions are a how-to for an adult … attach piece A to piece B… place mask over nose and mouth… There is no disclaimer that a baby will cry uncontrollably for the duration of the treatment and you therefore won’t be able to tell the difference in breathing post treatment. Or, that he will struggle with you to pull off the mask or hose attachments and thrash about as if you are suffocating him. Were these medications actually tested on infants (I admit to not having read the 1 point font)? And if so, why aren’t there instructions for infant use? Why aren’t common medical devices and procedures specifically made or developed for infant use? This can’t be an untapped area, can it? I’m not just feeling blue now but for some reason I’m also feeling blood red.