Sedation

We brought Kiam Hong to PPUM for ECHO yesterday. The boy is not cooperative at all when the nurse is trying to scan on him. So the test failed & the nurse says need to sedate him in order to do the ECHO.

Sedate? Me & my hubby has no idea on what it is?
The nurse just informed us that it's sleeping pill for the toddlers.
Sleeping pills? Is it hazardous & any side effect?
Nurse explained that it's just a normal sleeping pills & its not hazardous, trying to calm us.

So, at 3.00pm, we gave Kiam Hong a crystal blue syrup to sedate him.
The boy looks fine initially, feeling sleepy... ... until he starts shouting & pointing this & that and his face turned to "red tomatoes". Hallucination??

My boy started with "ee aa...ba ba sound" and starts not to behaved himself by kicking us. He seems like DRUNK!! OMG..yes, I think that's the appropriate word to describe the little fellow. The following hour was a great task to me & daddy trying to put him to sleep. Yet, the boy just too ACTIVE & refused to sleep.
The nurse just smiled at us & we've to make another appointment with PPUM on next Friday for ECHO test.

I have wasted half day A/L for today & another A/L for next Friday ... sigh!
Guess what..when we were leaving PPUM at 4.10pm and daddy started driving back home, the poor boy sat quietly with me & started to sleep...
He slept till 6.30pm & we thought it's all over until this little fellow started behaved weird again at night... making nonsense for 1 hour and falling asleep later.

Another round of sedation by next Friday & I wonder what will happen next :-(

Note
Sedation is a medical procedure involving the administration of sedative drugs, generally to facilitate a medical procedure with local anaesthesia.

An echocardiogram, often referred to in the medical community as a cardiac ECHO or simply an ECHO, is a sonogram of the heart.