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[quote=Anonymous]I'm pretty anti-medication (never use cold meds, for instance), but I actually think this is NBD. My pediatrician recommended benadryl for sea sickness, so I gave it to my kids a couple times on boat trips. I regretted it, because it knocked them out and they missed all the beautiful stuff we had taken them to see. The safety of children's benadryl (at recommended doses) is pretty well established. My sister who is a scientist who studies stuff dealing with medicine and children has used it occasionally to help kids sleep on long flights. Agree I wouldn't do it for "my convenience" but if the child is going to be miserable because he misses sleep due to an airline trip, I think that's not "my convenience" but rather helping the child to maintain usual sleep patterns. (Like taking melatonin yourself before a red-eye flight.) And you do need to test it, because something liek 10-20% of kids get hyper, not tired, with benadryl.[/quote]
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