Worked for one daughter, made the other hyper.

I can't believe people do this.

I don't remember why we decided to try benedryl a our older child had always slept great on flights. Still we hadn't travel as much with the second kid so I was worried and tried benedryl. We've flown a lot with our kids and this was by far the wort flight of my life. He woke up after 30 min in a full on rage; it was a complete disaster. On the way home i didn't give him anything and he slept the entire 3 hr flight...lesson learned, trust your kid!

I'm really displeased by all this casual use of MEDICATION. Not saying it's a gateway or anything, but medication should never be used for your own convenience or recreation.

With the white noise from the plane child will most likely sleep anyways. I would definitely not drug my child to help them sleep. If anything get some essential oils (lavender).

Anonymous wrote: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.

Do you mean Dramamine for sea sickness? That also makes people very sleepy and doesn’t have the common opposite side effect of making kids hyper. I take on planes - can you give it to kids instead of Benadryl?

Travel during the holidays is a total shit show anyways. Might as well let your toddler stay awake. There were be lots of them (and annoying adults) on the plane. Just suck it up.

Safe travels

Likely wont work. My kids nap like 30 mins on flights regardless of how tired they are.

Whether it makes your kid hyper can be context-dependent. It makes mine sleepy at home, but magnifies their travel excitement so they are hyper on planes with it. Just a warning.

I didn't, but it's been done for decades. Nothing new or shocking. Agree, know what effect it will have beforehand.