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Sedate Your Kids While They Play
Posted by
samzenpus
on Thu May 21, 2009 01:38 PM
from the nap-time dept.
from the nap-time dept.
If your child won't sit still at the dentist, the doctor, or the kitchen table, you need the PediSedate Helmet. The device consisting of a colorful headset that connects to a game component or a portable CD player. After a snorkel attachment goes into the child's mouth, the helmet will monitor respiratory function and distribute nitrous oxide or anesthetic gas. The company website states, "The child comfortably becomes sedated while playing with a Nintendo Game Boy system or listening to music. This dramatically improves the hospital or dental experience for the child, parents and healthcare providers."
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Adults? (Score:5, Funny)
Do they make an adult model? Where's my checkbook....
Re:Adults? (Score:5, Funny)
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College Students will LOVE it! (Score:4, Funny)
Who needs an Adult version? After all, college students loved the Teletubbies. Any excuse for intoxication.
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Re:College Students will LOVE it! (Score:5, Funny)
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Wait -- what?
Hmm... (Score:4, Informative)
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That smile on the ad... (Score:2, Insightful)
... seems to suggest otherwise that the device doesn't really work properly. They need a picture of a kid with eyes like X_X and maybe his tongue hanging out for good measure.
Then I'd buy it. For... medical purposes. Yes.
This device (Score:5, Funny)
If you're giving the kid nitrous.... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:If you're giving the kid nitrous.... (Score:4, Insightful)
Not a parent, huh? You have to get them to cooperate enough to get the nitrous dispenser hooked onto their face. If they view the headset as a toy to be used while videogaming, you're far more likely to get them to cooperate.
Parent
Re:If you're giving the kid nitrous.... (Score:4, Funny)
Are kids really going to fall for that? They're not stupid. They know the gameboy or CD player works without that helmet. They're not going to suddenly be fooled by someone going "Jimmy! Your CD player needs this large, indimidating helmet, and a tube stuck down your throat to work!"
You'd have more luck taking House's approach, and take a hit of nitrous yourself before strapping it to the kid.
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I've used it while at the dentist (though not any more - it's too expensive to be worth it), and it was nowhere near strong enough to replace a novocaine injection or others for anything but the most trivial stuff that I wouldn't have minded doing without any sedation at all anyway.
It was however a very pleasant addition. When I had nitrous, I was in the chair
And Now you Know (Score:2)
What ? (Score:2, Insightful)
How come this kind of posts even make it to the main page? That too into Game section, in which way this falls into game category? aah forget it.
Relax people (Score:5, Funny)
It's a joke.
I think.
I hope.
God, don't let this be true.
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Of course it's a joke, just like the "ball and chain with a time" joke. It's a felony for anyone to administer any kind of general anesthetic other than a licensed anesthetologist, mostly because generals are moderately dangerous. Last I heard, the most like reason you'd die on the operating table was a problem with the general.
Re:Relax people (Score:4, Funny)
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What happened to... (Score:4, Funny)
What happened to good ol parenting and talking the kid through the procedure with soothing words like, "just one more and we'll be done"
are you kidding me? (Score:3, Insightful)
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Those children grew up to be a little angry and thinking smacking kids is a good thing.
My kids behave fine, and I don't have to bully or beat them.
Maybe you should use a more modern technique for child care?
Umm... Why? (Score:4, Insightful)
Look, I'm not going to get into the whole debate about punishments. But this isn't even for when the kid did something wrong. It's a kid with a medical problem, which makes a lot of adults anxious too, in an unfamiliar place, etc. It's a kid which is ill, maybe in pain, and scared.
So your solution is obviously to smack him upside the head... Just because in your day they didn't have ways to make an already shitty situation less traumatizing. Better make sure your kid is properly traumatized by the experience too.
Right...
Geeze. This must be a new low even by the standards of Slashdot trolling.
Parent
this doesn't look like an onion story (Score:2)
I mean, it sounds like an Onion story but none of the links are going to the Onion.
Oblig. (Score:5, Funny)
Bender: And so I ask you this one question: Have you ever tried simply turning off the TV, sitting down with your children, and hitting them?
It is a medical device. (Score:3, Informative)
Brave New World... (Score:3, Informative)
Hard Mode (Score:5, Funny)
It's not a joke... (Score:5, Insightful)
If you RTFA it's not a joke, but it's not meant for home use, it's for doctors to use in the doctor's office to put kids under with less anxiety.
-Taylor
RTFA (Score:5, Informative)
It is for medical use only. Evryone that is bitching about Parents not being parents, and ADD, smacking kids, etc. Please RTFA
Re: (Score:3, Informative)
because they put it under games..
Re:Is drugs the answer? (Score:5, Informative)
Parents use Strawberry flavored milk and sudafed.
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Re:Is drugs the answer? (Score:5, Funny)
I would take more of a compromise tack. Instead of opening a can of whoop-ass on your little delinquent, or using some wishy washy sedation on them, I suggest heroin*. It's both soothing and hardcore.
Also, a benefit of being their drug dealer is that you can cut them off when they have been naughty. It's a great disciplinary tactic, at least until they are big enough to commit drug-related crime to get more.
You can also ensure that your kids have only the purest and safest (relatively) dosages and that they use clean needles too!
This message brought to you by the Afghan Agricultural Council.
* Heroin may be habit-forming. Be sure to consult the Internet before usage.
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Re:Is drugs the answer? (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Is drugs the answer? (Score:5, Insightful)
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Let me be the first to say. . . (Score:5, Funny)
Welcome to Slashdot, where the 'editors' routinely post multi-year-old 'news'.
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Your journal hasn't been updated for 7 months... just sayin'.
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PROTIP: it's not addictive. (Nor is it even metabolised by the body.)
Not much point to it on its own anyway, it only really becomes worthwhile in combination with acid / shrooms.
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Re:Getting addicted to nitrous oxide at a early ag (Score:4, Informative)
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Lots of the ADD over-referrals are because little girls sit still more readily than little boys, and we have lots of female primary school teachers. "Boys will be boys" is replaced with "ADD is much more prevalent in males". The over-referrals be damned, though, the doctors shouldn't drug up every kid referred to them regardless of actual diagnostics.
Re:Jesus Christ! (Score:5, Funny)
Dr. Foster: Would you please tell your son to stop?
Ned's Dad: We can't do it, man! That's discipline! That's like tellin' Gene Krupa not to go [starts banging on the desk] "boom boom bam bam bam, boom boom bam bam bam, boom boom boom bam ba ba ba ba, da boo boo tss!" We don't believe in rules, like, we gave them up when we started livin' like freaky beatniks!
Dr. Foster: You don't believe in rules, yet you want to control Ned's anger.
Ned's Mom: Yeah. You gotta help us, Doc. We've tried nothin' and we're all out of ideas.
Simpsons, "Hurricane Neddy" [snpp.com]
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Re:Jesus Christ! (Score:5, Insightful)
It's the TYPE of control I object to, not control. My sons, three of them, have all been exceptionally easy to manage without drugs or anything similar. I use spanking and similar old fashioned methods and always have. Frankly, when spanking properly, you don't have to spank so often and eventually not at all. But every time I see a parent attempt to "medicate" behavior I get angry because the potential damage is pretty obvious to me. Kids need to be TAUGHT not medicated.
Parent
Re:Jesus Christ! (Score:5, Insightful)
Kids need to be TAUGHT not medicated.
Wow, you teach your kids to sit still while their teeth are being drilled without any anesthetic? You must, since these are medical devices, and not for parental use. That's pretty hard-core, dude.
Parent
Re:Spanking (Score:4, Interesting)
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Most diagnoses of ADD and ADHD are pure bullshit. Unquestionably everyone is different and perhaps there are rare instances where medication are actually required to get people within the broad window we call "normal." But as an example, of all the morbidly obese people in the world and especially in the U.S., only a tiny fraction of a single percent of those people have actual "medical" conditions as the root cause. The rest all brought it on to themselves in some way... or their parents did it to them
Re:Idle is there for a reason (Score:5, Interesting)
I think samzenpus was hired to make kdawson look competent by comparison.
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