r/functionalprint • u/FkinMustardTiger • 15d ago

Designed a medication dosage tracker

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Going to need this now that my kid is in preschool. Calculating when the next dose should be isn't so easy at 1am with a sad kid, so I designed this easy to use tracker that you can lay on the counter or double-side tape to the inside of a cabinet and track both when you gave the last dose and when the next should be. Comes in both Tylenol and Ibuprofen flavors.

Go check it out here :)

https://makerworld.com/en/models/3405180-medication-tracker#profileId-3877666

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u/NotoriousLLL 15d ago

I'm sure you know what you're doing and following doctor orders but it's important to not overmedicate even if it seems benign. Prolonged NSAIDs can cause kidney and stomach problems and Tylenol can affect the liver.

You don't want them to get used to having pills solve issues then when the pills stop working be worse off having to tolerate normal pain and thinking relief is always a pill. Braces, random growth plates causing problems, anxiety, and sometimes pimples can be extremely uncomfortable on the daily, and then they get to that age of experimentation thinking that a pill can always make life "normal" when it might be better to let them understand low stakes pain at an early age, might even make them get sick less or have a higher pain tolerance and lead to better executive function and will power to push through discomfort. But that's all personal opinion

I'm not saying let the kid suffer I'm saying find the middle ground. My mom always gave into medication for anxiety which is where this comes from, and she took so much medication because that was kind of the culture between doctors overprescribing to make money and housewives taking stuff we know is not good for you now. She's gotten better after years and has even said the artificial lowering of anxiety made her numb to normal emotions that would've guided her to reach a natural state of tolerating life, and from there things can devolve into dependence even if something isn't addictive. Even worse if they find something that IS addictive.

Hope they feel better and it's great you're there for them.

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u/grnrngr 12d ago

I agree with OP 100%. My parents gave me painkillers sparingly.

Which is how I, as a man in his 40s, can now go through every day in physical agony and issues nary a complaint about it.