Dear McNeil,
I would like to congratulate you on making dye-free infant Tylenol. However, I do have on small request, that I'm sure thousands of sleep-deprived mothers (and fathers) everywhere would loudly endorse.
Please, please, please consider making the medicine droptheper marks a color other than white. I realize, in an effort to only charge me a small fortune for infant Tylenol, that you are using the same dropper that you use in the regular (red) infant Tylenol. However, that is just the problem. The white marks show up fine when the dropper is filled with red liquid. However, the white, milky colored liquid of the dye-free medicine makes it virtually impossible to see either the air bubbles or the marks on the dropper.
I am venturing a guess that this is why red Tylenol was invented to begin with, but surely I could be persuaded to spend a medium fortune in order to get a medicine dropper that I can actually read. After all, no one actually ever needs Tylenol in the bright light of day when her child is blissfully silent (and still).
Rather, the need for infant Tylenol comes in the darkest point of night, when one's head feels stuffed full of cotton and is unable to remember the dosage amount (the same one, I might add, that one has been using for nearly six months). Of course, the lights are dim, to prevent having to wake anyone further. The child in question is not at her sweet, peaceful best, but rather a raging tyrant of teething toddlerhood, salivating, red in the face and wanting nothing more than blessed relief for the swollen lower gum.
This combines to make dosing a challenge already - half-asleep, half-lit, fully aware of the consequences of not fixing something rightthisverysecond. Which means that Murphy comes into play and the dropper ends up full of air bubbles, only half of which can be seen between the milky white dropper and the milky white medicine. Once one is relatively (key word here) assured that the dropper is full of more medicine than air, one has to concentrate very hard (quite a feat when one has been woken up on and off by aforementioned screaming toddler) on figuring out which line the medicine reaches.
Perhaps you haven't had to endure this. Perhaps your children (or children in the studies) only need Tylenol on a sunny day, after plenty of sleep, in a well-lit room. However, based on anedcotal evidence, I would guess this probably isn't the norm.
Again, I appreciate your commitment to making infant Tylenol as free of unnecessary ingredients as possible. I only ask that you reconsider the color of the lines on the dropper.
Regards,
Mother to a teething 16-month-old
1 comment:
Try Hyland teething tablets. They really worked for Josh as immediate relief. Also, children's motrin works better for teething because it helps with the swelling. :) We learned all of this the very hard way because Josh was a psycho teether for about a year.
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