Vaccinations,Tylenol, Allopathic Medicine, etc.

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I have always felt so guilty, & even more so now after learning more,

about giving tylenol for a period of time after my daughter was born.

She had heart surgery at 4 days old & was on so many different things -

medicines & pain relivers while in the hospital. She was a couple weeks

preemie & we were also dealing w/ learning about s Syndrome which

she was diagnosed w/ at birth. She was not vaxed, as I became more

educated about that before I gave birth, but did not yet know about thet

eye goop or vit.k. We stayed w/ her almost the entire time, except

during the surgery of course, & for a short period 2x while my husband

wanted me to go home & shower/change, but we came right back immediately

after. They did give her a synagis shot, during that time I was gone, &

I was furious, but what could I do after she was already injected w/ it.

When we took her home a few days after surgery, we were to give her

tylenol for the pain - which I honestly think is only for the benefit of

making the parents feel as if they are doing something to make the baby

comfortable. i never felt that she was relieved from the pain of the

surgery & each nursing was unbearably scary, for fear of hurting her

more. I also believe the synagis shot caused her a severe reaction,

beacause she became " text-book GERD " (while having no symptoms of the

sort in the hospital before the synagis shot when we took her home. She

would have coughing/choking fits where she was screaming & crying &

throwing up constantly. We would have to clear her mouth/throat from the

mucos (almost thick like a golf ball size) or she would choke on it &

stop breathing for a couple seconds. I couldn't sleep because I was

afraid she would die & wouldn't be able to help her & driving anywhere

was also a nightmare because we were constantly pulling over. It was

completely horrible. We were exhasted & didn't know how else to help

her. It makes me so angry that we grow up thinking we can just trust

the Dr.'s & they will do everything in the best interest of our

children. Don't get me wrong- without them, my baby would have died in

her sleep while I held her the night after I gave birth to her if it

wasn't for the surgery & I will be forever grateful, but basically after

that, we were on our own & all the problems we had to face after, I

believe were from all the trama & intervention she recieved in the

hospital & being so young.

>

> I used to work in a hospital pharmacy. One of my first memories of

> working there was everyone talking about a woman who had just died of

> liver failure. This is back in 1989, when " drive through operations "

> was the new thing. Surgeries usually needing hospital stays, were now

> being treated as outpatient surgeries. Well this woman, in her 50's

> or early sixties had surgery for something and was sent home with

> instructions to take Tylenol " as needed " for pain. Well, all the

> pharmacist were talking about she should have been discharged with

> pain meds, but because during this time there was a big worry that

> everyone would turn into drug addicts when treated for pain, she was

> told to take Tylenol by the doctor. Well, she kept popping Tylenol,

> but ofcourse this did nothing for her very acute surgical pain she

> was experiencing. But Tylenol can be lethal in doses not terribly

> above recommended doses, and she indeed did die.

>

> Do you all remember the T.V. commercials not too long ago that

> featured the Tylenol executive saying that if you are not going to

> use their product correctly, then she rather you don't use their

> product at all? That ad campaign was in response to the many deaths

> reported every year from Tylenol. A lot of people don't realize that

> Tylenol (acetaminophen) is in a ton of over the product products, as

> well as in narcotic pain meds such as Vicodin and Percocet. Taking

> several of these products at the same time can cause an overdose that

> can cause liver damage or death.

>

> Sylvia