Kids dumping the meds!

pjspiegle · Dec 8, 2008

Boy, that brings back memories. I was sitting here laughing so hard, I know its not funny, but the memories sure are now.

I think that the nebs weren't a problem because I only gave him one at a time and didn't let him take them all with him to sit down and do, maybe my moms gut that I knew he would do that too, or just never thought of it.

However, this is why I was laughing because I had only read the "Kid's dumping meds" part. A coupld of times I decided that I needed to clean Nathans room because it needed a throughly cleaning and even some sanitizing that he could not do. Well, the first time, you should have seen the look on my face when I moved his bed to clean under it! I think there was at LEAST a two week supply of every med he was taking including the missing nasal sprays I could not find to save my life got found. Poor kid might be lucky to be alive to tell the story. Yet, since I found that hiding place, you would think I would learn, he did it again but the next time it was behind the dresser. Needless to say it was a long time before I just gave him his meds, he had to swallow them in front of me each and every one, everytime. Plus I made it very clear that I would find his hiding spots but he never did it after the second time. Again, lucky he lived through it. If I remember rightly he was 6 and 8 when he did this. You really should have seened the shocked look on my face, you really had to be there.

I guess I am saying it is normal and typical. Not that it shouldn't be corrected, it has too be, but normal. I don't have a daughter with CF so am wondering if this is a boy thing or if girls do it as well.

PS: I cleaned his room throughly at least monthly, it sounds like I only cleaned it twice in his life, sorry.

pjspiegle · Dec 8, 2008

Boy, that brings back memories. I was sitting here laughing so hard, I know its not funny, but the memories sure are now.

I think that the nebs weren't a problem because I only gave him one at a time and didn't let him take them all with him to sit down and do, maybe my moms gut that I knew he would do that too, or just never thought of it.

However, this is why I was laughing because I had only read the "Kid's dumping meds" part. A coupld of times I decided that I needed to clean Nathans room because it needed a throughly cleaning and even some sanitizing that he could not do. Well, the first time, you should have seen the look on my face when I moved his bed to clean under it! I think there was at LEAST a two week supply of every med he was taking including the missing nasal sprays I could not find to save my life got found. Poor kid might be lucky to be alive to tell the story. Yet, since I found that hiding place, you would think I would learn, he did it again but the next time it was behind the dresser. Needless to say it was a long time before I just gave him his meds, he had to swallow them in front of me each and every one, everytime. Plus I made it very clear that I would find his hiding spots but he never did it after the second time. Again, lucky he lived through it. If I remember rightly he was 6 and 8 when he did this. You really should have seened the shocked look on my face, you really had to be there.

I guess I am saying it is normal and typical. Not that it shouldn't be corrected, it has too be, but normal. I don't have a daughter with CF so am wondering if this is a boy thing or if girls do it as well.

PS: I cleaned his room throughly at least monthly, it sounds like I only cleaned it twice in his life, sorry.

pjspiegle · Dec 8, 2008

Boy, that brings back memories. I was sitting here laughing so hard, I know its not funny, but the memories sure are now.

I think that the nebs weren't a problem because I only gave him one at a time and didn't let him take them all with him to sit down and do, maybe my moms gut that I knew he would do that too, or just never thought of it.

However, this is why I was laughing because I had only read the "Kid's dumping meds" part. A coupld of times I decided that I needed to clean Nathans room because it needed a throughly cleaning and even some sanitizing that he could not do. Well, the first time, you should have seen the look on my face when I moved his bed to clean under it! I think there was at LEAST a two week supply of every med he was taking including the missing nasal sprays I could not find to save my life got found. Poor kid might be lucky to be alive to tell the story. Yet, since I found that hiding place, you would think I would learn, he did it again but the next time it was behind the dresser. Needless to say it was a long time before I just gave him his meds, he had to swallow them in front of me each and every one, everytime. Plus I made it very clear that I would find his hiding spots but he never did it after the second time. Again, lucky he lived through it. If I remember rightly he was 6 and 8 when he did this. You really should have seened the shocked look on my face, you really had to be there.

I guess I am saying it is normal and typical. Not that it shouldn't be corrected, it has too be, but normal. I don't have a daughter with CF so am wondering if this is a boy thing or if girls do it as well.

PS: I cleaned his room throughly at least monthly, it sounds like I only cleaned it twice in his life, sorry.

pjspiegle · Dec 8, 2008

Boy, that brings back memories. I was sitting here laughing so hard, I know its not funny, but the memories sure are now.

I think that the nebs weren't a problem because I only gave him one at a time and didn't let him take them all with him to sit down and do, maybe my moms gut that I knew he would do that too, or just never thought of it.

However, this is why I was laughing because I had only read the "Kid's dumping meds" part. A coupld of times I decided that I needed to clean Nathans room because it needed a throughly cleaning and even some sanitizing that he could not do. Well, the first time, you should have seen the look on my face when I moved his bed to clean under it! I think there was at LEAST a two week supply of every med he was taking including the missing nasal sprays I could not find to save my life got found. Poor kid might be lucky to be alive to tell the story. Yet, since I found that hiding place, you would think I would learn, he did it again but the next time it was behind the dresser. Needless to say it was a long time before I just gave him his meds, he had to swallow them in front of me each and every one, everytime. Plus I made it very clear that I would find his hiding spots but he never did it after the second time. Again, lucky he lived through it. If I remember rightly he was 6 and 8 when he did this. You really should have seened the shocked look on my face, you really had to be there.

I guess I am saying it is normal and typical. Not that it shouldn't be corrected, it has too be, but normal. I don't have a daughter with CF so am wondering if this is a boy thing or if girls do it as well.

PS: I cleaned his room throughly at least monthly, it sounds like I only cleaned it twice in his life, sorry.

pjspiegle · Dec 8, 2008

Boy, that brings back memories. I was sitting here laughing so hard, I know its not funny, but the memories sure are now.
 
 I think that the nebs weren't a problem because I only gave him one at a time and didn't let him take them all with him to sit down and do, maybe my moms gut that I knew he would do that too, or just never thought of it.
 
 However, this is why I was laughing because I had only read the "Kid's dumping meds" part. A coupld of times I decided that I needed to clean Nathans room because it needed a throughly cleaning and even some sanitizing that he could not do. Well, the first time, you should have seen the look on my face when I moved his bed to clean under it! I think there was at LEAST a two week supply of every med he was taking including the missing nasal sprays I could not find to save my life got found. Poor kid might be lucky to be alive to tell the story. Yet, since I found that hiding place, you would think I would learn, he did it again but the next time it was behind the dresser. Needless to say it was a long time before I just gave him his meds, he had to swallow them in front of me each and every one, everytime. Plus I made it very clear that I would find his hiding spots but he never did it after the second time. Again, lucky he lived through it. If I remember rightly he was 6 and 8 when he did this. You really should have seened the shocked look on my face, you really had to be there.
 
 I guess I am saying it is normal and typical. Not that it shouldn't be corrected, it has too be, but normal. I don't have a daughter with CF so am wondering if this is a boy thing or if girls do it as well.
 
 
 PS: I cleaned his room throughly at least monthly, it sounds like I only cleaned it twice in his life, sorry.

Terry · Dec 10, 2008

Hi!

I'm sorry to hear you are having trouble. I was (probably am but don't know it yet) in the same boat.

Marissa was giving me a heck of a time for several months. We were bribing, begging, you name it, for her to do her treatments.

I think we were not parenting very well, not like we would with one of our non CF kids anyway. I know for a fact if my daughter who gets strep at least once a year were to intentionally throw her antibiotics in the trash, she would get punished. She used to get in so much more trouble when she was 3 years old and spit her meds out than Marissa was at nine years old dumping her nebs. And yes, I know she was dumping them for a fact.

She had us good. The "rewards" for not doing her meds just kept adding up.

Until about three weeks ago. She cultured PA at her last visit, and since she had been getting away with dumping the Pulmozyme and Albuterol, she decided Tobi was no different.

I have a very expensive piece of carpet that I am thinking of putting on EBAY.

That was the straw that broke the camels back. PA is dangerous. My husband woke up, and after he witnessed her "trying" to not breath it in and heard at least once a day for a week of her dumping it, he got stern with her.

It was very sad, I had to turn my back so she wouldn't see me cry. But he told her what PA was and what it did, and how without the meds she has, that she is wasting, she would not be here today. How we can't help her if she won't help herself.

This I think was a little too harsh for her, and most likely too harsh for your little one.

But the change is that there is no more begging and pleading. She still has her fun stuff to do while on her meds. But if she willingly dumps her meds, she gets a consequence, maybe sitting quietly on the next one with nothing to do but think about the last one she wasted, or going to bed early. Depending on which one she dumped.

If she pulls her vest apart to "let the clock run out" (btw, football can corrupt the minds of children), we have told her we will add two minutes to it each time (can corrupt parents, too). (Now it does sometimes come apart on it's own, but we stay in the room with her, and the times it was her it took her some effort to yank it apart.)

If she shuts her feeding tube off in the middle of the night, she has to finish it in the morning.

I know this sounds harsh, but guess what? She has only had to sit quietly one time on her nebs, has only had 4 minutes added to her vest, and only had to stay on her feeding tube for one morning.

Great improvement once she realized we weren't kidding. She was only doing about half her treatments and feedings each week. Now we are 100% again, YEAH!

I won't get cocky though, it's only been almost three weeks. I've dealt with TWEENage girls before, and they don't give up easy. And I hear CF kids are even more determined than non CF kids.

Good Luck!
Terry

Terry · Dec 10, 2008

Hi!

I'm sorry to hear you are having trouble. I was (probably am but don't know it yet) in the same boat.

Marissa was giving me a heck of a time for several months. We were bribing, begging, you name it, for her to do her treatments.

I think we were not parenting very well, not like we would with one of our non CF kids anyway. I know for a fact if my daughter who gets strep at least once a year were to intentionally throw her antibiotics in the trash, she would get punished. She used to get in so much more trouble when she was 3 years old and spit her meds out than Marissa was at nine years old dumping her nebs. And yes, I know she was dumping them for a fact.

She had us good. The "rewards" for not doing her meds just kept adding up.

Until about three weeks ago. She cultured PA at her last visit, and since she had been getting away with dumping the Pulmozyme and Albuterol, she decided Tobi was no different.

I have a very expensive piece of carpet that I am thinking of putting on EBAY.

That was the straw that broke the camels back. PA is dangerous. My husband woke up, and after he witnessed her "trying" to not breath it in and heard at least once a day for a week of her dumping it, he got stern with her.

It was very sad, I had to turn my back so she wouldn't see me cry. But he told her what PA was and what it did, and how without the meds she has, that she is wasting, she would not be here today. How we can't help her if she won't help herself.

This I think was a little too harsh for her, and most likely too harsh for your little one.

But the change is that there is no more begging and pleading. She still has her fun stuff to do while on her meds. But if she willingly dumps her meds, she gets a consequence, maybe sitting quietly on the next one with nothing to do but think about the last one she wasted, or going to bed early. Depending on which one she dumped.

If she pulls her vest apart to "let the clock run out" (btw, football can corrupt the minds of children), we have told her we will add two minutes to it each time (can corrupt parents, too). (Now it does sometimes come apart on it's own, but we stay in the room with her, and the times it was her it took her some effort to yank it apart.)

If she shuts her feeding tube off in the middle of the night, she has to finish it in the morning.

I know this sounds harsh, but guess what? She has only had to sit quietly one time on her nebs, has only had 4 minutes added to her vest, and only had to stay on her feeding tube for one morning.

Great improvement once she realized we weren't kidding. She was only doing about half her treatments and feedings each week. Now we are 100% again, YEAH!

I won't get cocky though, it's only been almost three weeks. I've dealt with TWEENage girls before, and they don't give up easy. And I hear CF kids are even more determined than non CF kids.

Good Luck!
Terry

Terry · Dec 10, 2008

Hi!

I'm sorry to hear you are having trouble. I was (probably am but don't know it yet) in the same boat.

Marissa was giving me a heck of a time for several months. We were bribing, begging, you name it, for her to do her treatments.

I think we were not parenting very well, not like we would with one of our non CF kids anyway. I know for a fact if my daughter who gets strep at least once a year were to intentionally throw her antibiotics in the trash, she would get punished. She used to get in so much more trouble when she was 3 years old and spit her meds out than Marissa was at nine years old dumping her nebs. And yes, I know she was dumping them for a fact.

She had us good. The "rewards" for not doing her meds just kept adding up.

Until about three weeks ago. She cultured PA at her last visit, and since she had been getting away with dumping the Pulmozyme and Albuterol, she decided Tobi was no different.

I have a very expensive piece of carpet that I am thinking of putting on EBAY.

That was the straw that broke the camels back. PA is dangerous. My husband woke up, and after he witnessed her "trying" to not breath it in and heard at least once a day for a week of her dumping it, he got stern with her.

It was very sad, I had to turn my back so she wouldn't see me cry. But he told her what PA was and what it did, and how without the meds she has, that she is wasting, she would not be here today. How we can't help her if she won't help herself.

This I think was a little too harsh for her, and most likely too harsh for your little one.

But the change is that there is no more begging and pleading. She still has her fun stuff to do while on her meds. But if she willingly dumps her meds, she gets a consequence, maybe sitting quietly on the next one with nothing to do but think about the last one she wasted, or going to bed early. Depending on which one she dumped.

If she pulls her vest apart to "let the clock run out" (btw, football can corrupt the minds of children), we have told her we will add two minutes to it each time (can corrupt parents, too). (Now it does sometimes come apart on it's own, but we stay in the room with her, and the times it was her it took her some effort to yank it apart.)

If she shuts her feeding tube off in the middle of the night, she has to finish it in the morning.

I know this sounds harsh, but guess what? She has only had to sit quietly one time on her nebs, has only had 4 minutes added to her vest, and only had to stay on her feeding tube for one morning.

Great improvement once she realized we weren't kidding. She was only doing about half her treatments and feedings each week. Now we are 100% again, YEAH!

I won't get cocky though, it's only been almost three weeks. I've dealt with TWEENage girls before, and they don't give up easy. And I hear CF kids are even more determined than non CF kids.

Good Luck!
Terry

Terry · Dec 10, 2008

Hi!

I'm sorry to hear you are having trouble. I was (probably am but don't know it yet) in the same boat.

Marissa was giving me a heck of a time for several months. We were bribing, begging, you name it, for her to do her treatments.

I think we were not parenting very well, not like we would with one of our non CF kids anyway. I know for a fact if my daughter who gets strep at least once a year were to intentionally throw her antibiotics in the trash, she would get punished. She used to get in so much more trouble when she was 3 years old and spit her meds out than Marissa was at nine years old dumping her nebs. And yes, I know she was dumping them for a fact.

She had us good. The "rewards" for not doing her meds just kept adding up.

Until about three weeks ago. She cultured PA at her last visit, and since she had been getting away with dumping the Pulmozyme and Albuterol, she decided Tobi was no different.

I have a very expensive piece of carpet that I am thinking of putting on EBAY.

That was the straw that broke the camels back. PA is dangerous. My husband woke up, and after he witnessed her "trying" to not breath it in and heard at least once a day for a week of her dumping it, he got stern with her.

It was very sad, I had to turn my back so she wouldn't see me cry. But he told her what PA was and what it did, and how without the meds she has, that she is wasting, she would not be here today. How we can't help her if she won't help herself.

This I think was a little too harsh for her, and most likely too harsh for your little one.

But the change is that there is no more begging and pleading. She still has her fun stuff to do while on her meds. But if she willingly dumps her meds, she gets a consequence, maybe sitting quietly on the next one with nothing to do but think about the last one she wasted, or going to bed early. Depending on which one she dumped.

If she pulls her vest apart to "let the clock run out" (btw, football can corrupt the minds of children), we have told her we will add two minutes to it each time (can corrupt parents, too). (Now it does sometimes come apart on it's own, but we stay in the room with her, and the times it was her it took her some effort to yank it apart.)

If she shuts her feeding tube off in the middle of the night, she has to finish it in the morning.

I know this sounds harsh, but guess what? She has only had to sit quietly one time on her nebs, has only had 4 minutes added to her vest, and only had to stay on her feeding tube for one morning.

Great improvement once she realized we weren't kidding. She was only doing about half her treatments and feedings each week. Now we are 100% again, YEAH!

I won't get cocky though, it's only been almost three weeks. I've dealt with TWEENage girls before, and they don't give up easy. And I hear CF kids are even more determined than non CF kids.

Good Luck!
Terry

Terry · Dec 10, 2008

Hi!
 
 I'm sorry to hear you are having trouble. I was (probably am but don't know it yet) in the same boat.
 
 Marissa was giving me a heck of a time for several months. We were bribing, begging, you name it, for her to do her treatments.
 
 I think we were not parenting very well, not like we would with one of our non CF kids anyway. I know for a fact if my daughter who gets strep at least once a year were to intentionally throw her antibiotics in the trash, she would get punished. She used to get in so much more trouble when she was 3 years old and spit her meds out than Marissa was at nine years old dumping her nebs. And yes, I know she was dumping them for a fact.
 
 She had us good. The "rewards" for not doing her meds just kept adding up.
 
 Until about three weeks ago. She cultured PA at her last visit, and since she had been getting away with dumping the Pulmozyme and Albuterol, she decided Tobi was no different.
 
 I have a very expensive piece of carpet that I am thinking of putting on EBAY.
 
 That was the straw that broke the camels back. PA is dangerous. My husband woke up, and after he witnessed her "trying" to not breath it in and heard at least once a day for a week of her dumping it, he got stern with her.
 
 It was very sad, I had to turn my back so she wouldn't see me cry. But he told her what PA was and what it did, and how without the meds she has, that she is wasting, she would not be here today. How we can't help her if she won't help herself.
 
 This I think was a little too harsh for her, and most likely too harsh for your little one.
 
 But the change is that there is no more begging and pleading. She still has her fun stuff to do while on her meds. But if she willingly dumps her meds, she gets a consequence, maybe sitting quietly on the next one with nothing to do but think about the last one she wasted, or going to bed early. Depending on which one she dumped.
 
 If she pulls her vest apart to "let the clock run out" (btw, football can corrupt the minds of children), we have told her we will add two minutes to it each time (can corrupt parents, too). (Now it does sometimes come apart on it's own, but we stay in the room with her, and the times it was her it took her some effort to yank it apart.)
 
 If she shuts her feeding tube off in the middle of the night, she has to finish it in the morning.
 
 I know this sounds harsh, but guess what? She has only had to sit quietly one time on her nebs, has only had 4 minutes added to her vest, and only had to stay on her feeding tube for one morning.
 
 Great improvement once she realized we weren't kidding. She was only doing about half her treatments and feedings each week. Now we are 100% again, YEAH!
 
 I won't get cocky though, it's only been almost three weeks. I've dealt with TWEENage girls before, and they don't give up easy. And I hear CF kids are even more determined than non CF kids.
 
 Good Luck!
 Terry

tammykrumrey · Dec 10, 2008

I haven't caught either one dumping out nebbed meds...more likely they may just never do them, but don't hide it.

But, my daughter Kayla had been known to dump out her enzymes capsules. She went through a stage where she couldn't swallow the pills so she had to open the capsules and poor them in her mouth and wash them down (still does this actually-for over a year she hasn't been able to swallow the pills after doing it for years!).

And when she would open up the capsules she would hold them lower than the table top so you couldn't see that she was pouring them out onto the floor. It didn't take me too long to figure her out seeing I would be stepping on little enzyme pellets with my bare feet!

Drove me crazy! But she is past that...for now<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">

tammykrumrey · Dec 10, 2008

I haven't caught either one dumping out nebbed meds...more likely they may just never do them, but don't hide it.

But, my daughter Kayla had been known to dump out her enzymes capsules. She went through a stage where she couldn't swallow the pills so she had to open the capsules and poor them in her mouth and wash them down (still does this actually-for over a year she hasn't been able to swallow the pills after doing it for years!).

And when she would open up the capsules she would hold them lower than the table top so you couldn't see that she was pouring them out onto the floor. It didn't take me too long to figure her out seeing I would be stepping on little enzyme pellets with my bare feet!

Drove me crazy! But she is past that...for now<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">

tammykrumrey · Dec 10, 2008

I haven't caught either one dumping out nebbed meds...more likely they may just never do them, but don't hide it.

But, my daughter Kayla had been known to dump out her enzymes capsules. She went through a stage where she couldn't swallow the pills so she had to open the capsules and poor them in her mouth and wash them down (still does this actually-for over a year she hasn't been able to swallow the pills after doing it for years!).

And when she would open up the capsules she would hold them lower than the table top so you couldn't see that she was pouring them out onto the floor. It didn't take me too long to figure her out seeing I would be stepping on little enzyme pellets with my bare feet!

Drove me crazy! But she is past that...for now<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">

tammykrumrey · Dec 10, 2008

I haven't caught either one dumping out nebbed meds...more likely they may just never do them, but don't hide it.

But, my daughter Kayla had been known to dump out her enzymes capsules. She went through a stage where she couldn't swallow the pills so she had to open the capsules and poor them in her mouth and wash them down (still does this actually-for over a year she hasn't been able to swallow the pills after doing it for years!).

And when she would open up the capsules she would hold them lower than the table top so you couldn't see that she was pouring them out onto the floor. It didn't take me too long to figure her out seeing I would be stepping on little enzyme pellets with my bare feet!

Drove me crazy! But she is past that...for now<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">

tammykrumrey · Dec 10, 2008

I haven't caught either one dumping out nebbed meds...more likely they may just never do them, but don't hide it.
 
 But, my daughter Kayla had been known to dump out her enzymes capsules. She went through a stage where she couldn't swallow the pills so she had to open the capsules and poor them in her mouth and wash them down (still does this actually-for over a year she hasn't been able to swallow the pills after doing it for years!).
 
 And when she would open up the capsules she would hold them lower than the table top so you couldn't see that she was pouring them out onto the floor. It didn't take me too long to figure her out seeing I would be stepping on little enzyme pellets with my bare feet!
 
 Drove me crazy! But she is past that...for now<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">

iC3Cr3alvl · Dec 10, 2008

I'm 20 yrs old grl w/ CF and still don't like taking meds. No one ever enjoys taking meds if you think about it. People take it because they have to.

I think it's very important for the kids to know and understand why they need to take it, what the med does for them and how it works(ie Pulmozyme opens up your airways to help you breathe better), and what could happen if they didn't take it(of course make the explanations PG. Knowing the REAL facts can cause a big shock to little kids). It usually helps better understand if a doctor explained the reasons <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0"> (I never really knew why I had to take my meds until Middle School and knowing the reasons helped alot.)Because once they know why, they know that they don't have a choice. It's like doing homework for school. You don't want to do your homework, but you know you have to do it because if you don't, you'll get a bad grade. It's less annoying when you know why you have to do something instead of being forced to do it w/o knowing why you have to.

P.S. Parents, exlpaing to your kids with CF how much nebbed meds cost by comparing it to toys won't help. Especially when they get smart with you, they'll want the (using Ms. TonyaH's example) 10 Wiis for December rather than taking the meds hahahaha

iC3Cr3alvl · Dec 10, 2008

I'm 20 yrs old grl w/ CF and still don't like taking meds. No one ever enjoys taking meds if you think about it. People take it because they have to.

I think it's very important for the kids to know and understand why they need to take it, what the med does for them and how it works(ie Pulmozyme opens up your airways to help you breathe better), and what could happen if they didn't take it(of course make the explanations PG. Knowing the REAL facts can cause a big shock to little kids). It usually helps better understand if a doctor explained the reasons <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0"> (I never really knew why I had to take my meds until Middle School and knowing the reasons helped alot.)Because once they know why, they know that they don't have a choice. It's like doing homework for school. You don't want to do your homework, but you know you have to do it because if you don't, you'll get a bad grade. It's less annoying when you know why you have to do something instead of being forced to do it w/o knowing why you have to.

P.S. Parents, exlpaing to your kids with CF how much nebbed meds cost by comparing it to toys won't help. Especially when they get smart with you, they'll want the (using Ms. TonyaH's example) 10 Wiis for December rather than taking the meds hahahaha

iC3Cr3alvl · Dec 10, 2008

I'm 20 yrs old grl w/ CF and still don't like taking meds. No one ever enjoys taking meds if you think about it. People take it because they have to.

I think it's very important for the kids to know and understand why they need to take it, what the med does for them and how it works(ie Pulmozyme opens up your airways to help you breathe better), and what could happen if they didn't take it(of course make the explanations PG. Knowing the REAL facts can cause a big shock to little kids). It usually helps better understand if a doctor explained the reasons <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0"> (I never really knew why I had to take my meds until Middle School and knowing the reasons helped alot.)Because once they know why, they know that they don't have a choice. It's like doing homework for school. You don't want to do your homework, but you know you have to do it because if you don't, you'll get a bad grade. It's less annoying when you know why you have to do something instead of being forced to do it w/o knowing why you have to.

P.S. Parents, exlpaing to your kids with CF how much nebbed meds cost by comparing it to toys won't help. Especially when they get smart with you, they'll want the (using Ms. TonyaH's example) 10 Wiis for December rather than taking the meds hahahaha

iC3Cr3alvl · Dec 10, 2008

I'm 20 yrs old grl w/ CF and still don't like taking meds. No one ever enjoys taking meds if you think about it. People take it because they have to.

I think it's very important for the kids to know and understand why they need to take it, what the med does for them and how it works(ie Pulmozyme opens up your airways to help you breathe better), and what could happen if they didn't take it(of course make the explanations PG. Knowing the REAL facts can cause a big shock to little kids). It usually helps better understand if a doctor explained the reasons <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0"> (I never really knew why I had to take my meds until Middle School and knowing the reasons helped alot.)Because once they know why, they know that they don't have a choice. It's like doing homework for school. You don't want to do your homework, but you know you have to do it because if you don't, you'll get a bad grade. It's less annoying when you know why you have to do something instead of being forced to do it w/o knowing why you have to.

P.S. Parents, exlpaing to your kids with CF how much nebbed meds cost by comparing it to toys won't help. Especially when they get smart with you, they'll want the (using Ms. TonyaH's example) 10 Wiis for December rather than taking the meds hahahaha

iC3Cr3alvl · Dec 10, 2008

I'm 20 yrs old grl w/ CF and still don't like taking meds. No one ever enjoys taking meds if you think about it. People take it because they have to.
 
 I think it's very important for the kids to know and understand why they need to take it, what the med does for them and how it works(ie Pulmozyme opens up your airways to help you breathe better), and what could happen if they didn't take it(of course make the explanations PG. Knowing the REAL facts can cause a big shock to little kids). It usually helps better understand if a doctor explained the reasons <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0"> (I never really knew why I had to take my meds until Middle School and knowing the reasons helped alot.)Because once they know why, they know that they don't have a choice. It's like doing homework for school. You don't want to do your homework, but you know you have to do it because if you don't, you'll get a bad grade. It's less annoying when you know why you have to do something instead of being forced to do it w/o knowing why you have to.
 
 P.S. Parents, exlpaing to your kids with CF how much nebbed meds cost by comparing it to toys won't help. Especially when they get smart with you, they'll want the (using Ms. TonyaH's example) 10 Wiis for December rather than taking the meds hahahaha

Kids dumping the meds!

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