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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=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??[/quote]

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). [/quote]
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?[/quote]

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