My son takes Metadate medicine and has recently had a bald spot appear. Doing research, I've found that bald spots are a rare side affect to the medicine. How do I know this IS what's causing it and what do I say to the dr? Would you go ahead and continue the child on the meds until you are able to talk with the dr?! thanks!
2007-02-27 12:36:03 · 5 answers · asked by Staying Quiet 3 in Health ➔ Other - Health
Have him keep taking them, but call the doctor tomorrow about it. If it is the meds, they need to find something else to put him on.
2007-02-27 12:40:15 · answer #1 · answered by odd duck 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
As side effects go, this one doesn't seem like an emergency. If your child had a horrible rash, trouble breathing and couldn't swallow, then stop the medicine immediately and head for the hospital. But this isn't in that league. Keep him on the medicine by all means until you actually know that the medicine is causing it.
Our son was on it for a while, but he hates swallowing pill and this isn't one that we could crush. So our neurologist changed him to Daytrana patches and they're awesome. But they even have a problem. Some batches of the patches are hard as heck to peel off. We are tuned into that now and as soon as a new box is opened, we check them out because if one is bad, they're all bad. It takes a new Rx to get them replaced. But they're worth it. He's never been so organized and had such attention to detail. The humorous part is that the days that he forgets or that it falls off are "funky" days when he goes back to being the class clown with no sense of right and wrong. The teachers will call immediately because they can even see the difference. Wish we'd have gotten this diagnosis 5 years earlier, it would have saved all those years of Sylvan Learning Centers and special ed classes.
2007-02-27 20:52:03 · answer #2 · answered by HuntingMan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You should talk with the doctor ASAP and tell him what you suspect. The doctor should be able to order tests to find out what's really happening.
As for the medicine- I hesitate to speak one way or the other. On the one hand, you are seeing one side effect and there may be others that are not so readily visible. On the other, the medicine is treating a problem that your son has.
Good luck.
2007-02-27 20:50:05 · answer #3 · answered by Tigger 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
call the doctors office and if you can't talk to him right away have him call you back. or see if you can talk to another doctor. normally when you get your med. they come with a paper with the side effects on them even if it's rare ones they should be on there. they tell you want you should do. more then likely it says if these symptoms occur then they go on to say. any reaction it says to stop taking it and contact the doctor. i myself wouldn't give him any more of it until you really know.
2007-02-27 20:57:09 · answer #4 · answered by wishstar28 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go to the Doctor without delay
2007-02-27 20:43:48 · answer #5 · answered by Kat 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋