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Rich
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Date Posted: Wednesday, August 03, 2011, 05:19: pm
In reply to:
Summer
's message, "Was every childhood problem solved with the bottom?LOL" on Monday, March 07, 2011, 08:23: am
Let's put spanking in a different category. It is not connected to illness or well being. As a means of discipline, it is out of fashion, going back to Dr. Spock's famous book.
The other items are correct for the times in which I grew up, the 50's. Oral medication was not trusted, especially if you had a gag reflex that made pill taking difficult or had nausea and might upchuck the meds.
The rectal thermometer was the standard way to take our temperatures. A child would not have problems holding it in place or have the reading affected by what was recently taken orally. A daily enema was given for reasons ranging from fever reduction to constipation caused by meds to comfort of the patient to making the rectum empty for meds and thermometer insertion.
Suppositories for fever reduction and nausea were very popular with parents. It was believed to work faster and not have reactions with food.
Shots were injected into the big muscle of a buttock because of the slower delivery rate of meds given by an IM injection, especially penicillin.
Other drugs like eye drops, nose drops, ear drops and chest rubs were trusted to work faster and better because they were not given orally.
Today, even infants get acetaminophin in the form of oral drops. Parents today just like to fuss less, apparently.
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