Form for non-prescription eye drops

[Anonymous]

My 3rd grader needs non-prescription eye drops for seasonal allergies. Does anyone know how to handle this with MCPS? I found a form for non-prescription medication, but part of the form needs to be filled out by the physician, even though it's not a prescription. Is there another form/process??

[Anonymous]

I don’t think there is any other process.

[Anonymous]

Nobody cares. Kids are bringing vape cartridges to school at our ES. Your kids can bring eye drops.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nobody cares. Kids are bringing vape cartridges to school at our ES. Your kids can bring eye drops.

Hyperbole much?

[Anonymous]

It’s a lot of pressure on a third grader to self administer eye drops clandestinely. Just have your pediatrician sign the form.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nobody cares. Kids are bringing vape cartridges to school at our ES. Your kids can bring eye drops.

Hyperbole much?

Hyperbole or truth?

The principal at our ES sent out an email a few weeks ago that 5th graders were found vaping at school. The kids were not suspended or anything. If kids can bring vape cartridges to school, some random eye drops are not going to be an issue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My 3rd grader needs non-prescription eye drops for seasonal allergies. Does anyone know how to handle this with MCPS? I found a form for non-prescription medication, but part of the form needs to be filled out by the physician, even though it's not a prescription. Is there another form/process??

No advice, just commiseration. I tried to do this for my middle schooler, and the doctor wouldn’t even sign the form because it didn’t require a prescription. She said it wasn’t something that needed a doctor to sign off on, even though the form says otherwise. She said to just have him put the eye drops in himself in the bathroom at school (rather than go to the school nurse).

[Anonymous]

You should call the school nurse because I didn’t think that non-prescription medication needed the doctor signature. They just needed your signature.

[Anonymous]

Do it before and after school. Schools generally don't administer or allow medication outside a doctor's note.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My 3rd grader needs non-prescription eye drops for seasonal allergies. Does anyone know how to handle this with MCPS? I found a form for non-prescription medication, but part of the form needs to be filled out by the physician, even though it's not a prescription. Is there another form/process??

No advice, just commiseration. I tried to do this for my middle schooler, and the doctor wouldn’t even sign the form because it didn’t require a prescription. She said it wasn’t something that needed a doctor to sign off on, even though the form says otherwise. She said to just have him put the eye drops in himself in the bathroom at school (rather than go to the school nurse).

Why do they all have to make things as difficult as possible?! Of course a doctor shouldn’t have to sign that, but saying your kid can just do it in the restroom isn’t helpful when the schools are cracking down on bathroom visits. The school doesn’t want to have to administer anything they don’t have to, MCPS wants to avoid liability, so they don’t want kids self administering, doctors don’t want to waste a single minute doing anything that they don’t consider part of their job, parents can’t leave work to administer meds. What are people supposed to do?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My 3rd grader needs non-prescription eye drops for seasonal allergies. Does anyone know how to handle this with MCPS? I found a form for non-prescription medication, but part of the form needs to be filled out by the physician, even though it's not a prescription. Is there another form/process??

No advice, just commiseration. I tried to do this for my middle schooler, and the doctor wouldn’t even sign the form because it didn’t require a prescription. She said it wasn’t something that needed a doctor to sign off on, even though the form says otherwise. She said to just have him put the eye drops in himself in the bathroom at school (rather than go to the school nurse).

Why do they all have to make things as difficult as possible?! Of course a doctor shouldn’t have to sign that, but saying your kid can just do it in the restroom isn’t helpful when the schools are cracking down on bathroom visits. The school doesn’t want to have to administer anything they don’t have to, MCPS wants to avoid liability, so they don’t want kids self administering, doctors don’t want to waste a single minute doing anything that they don’t consider part of their job, parents can’t leave work to administer meds. What are people supposed to do?

A young child should not be carrying or self administering medication or eye drops. You give it to the child before school and after school or find another longer lasting medication.

[Anonymous]

How would a school know unless they have a physician or pharmacologist on staff, that what is in the form is OTC vs prescription? Beyond the simple Tylenol, brufen, etc, there is really no way for them to know if the medication written is prescription or OTC. This is why a physician could be requested to sign on the form.

[Anonymous]

MCPS does not allow OTC medication unless you have a doctor’s order. This is clearly stated in the information and procedure section of the MCPS Authorization to Administer Prescribed Medication. It’s a liability issue and the school system does not want responsibility for kids’ medical care unless a doctor requires it.