‘Demonic’ child screams and rampages throughout eight hour flight (video)

Metro U.K. ^ | 2/14/2018 | Helen Smith

[farming pharmer]

I once offered a Benadryl to a mother on a flight and you would have thought I’d offered her poison for her child. ‘I WILL NOT MEDICATE MY CHILD UNNECESSARILY’. I said, ‘your child would be happier’. I was glared at for the rest of the coast to coast flight.

Young children can (and often do) have opposite reactions to medications called 'paradoxical reactions'. Benadryl can wire a kid up, and Sudafed can make them drowsy.

[onedoug]

To the extent that (s)he can control a given situation, the Captain blew it.

[Washi]

Years back...I worked overseas and traveled back to the US once per year with my family. My son HATED flying and was very hard to control.

Prior to yet another flight, our family doctor suggested Benadryl. It did work like a charm. Kid is happier, parents are happier, other passengers are happier.

[EDINVA]

should we lay bets on whether the kid’s American or German?

[jazminerose]

The captain should never have taken off with an out of control demonically possessed brat on board. In the US, the captain can make that call and it’s not subject to questions.

[Sequoyah101]

Autism is the Hyper Active Disorder of the day. As a scout leader in the 90s I had nearly a whole troop of dump ‘em off Ritalin doped up wild things. They ruined scouting for me and my son. We found we were both hanging on for one another and both hating it so we gave it up.

Writers write, talkers talk, doctors doctor etc. If nobody reads, listens or gets sick etc. there is nothing for them to do.

[originalbuckeye]

Of course! I am not in the habit of speaking to people that I don’t know and offering them medication. The kid had been screaming for over an hour at that point. The kid would have been happier if she had been able to relax and go to sleep, which is what Benadryl would have done for her.

[rlmorel]

Listening to it, it didn’t sound like a painful physical ailment. If it was something, it was a mental issue of some kind or poor parenting.

Either way, the mother should have obtained a sedative for the child, IMO.

[Joe Bfstplk]

No demons. This is a normal child of liberal rearing.

[Charles Martel]

"One gentleman invited Jeffery to go into the restroom and play with the blue water."

- Bill Cosby, Himself, 1983.

[Rebelbase]

Duct tape and toss him into the overhead luggage compartment.

[Rebelbase]

You’d get get arrested for that today.

[bigtoona]

Yup, nothin wrong with a sedative for a serious anxiety issue like that.

[Keyhopper]

Silence is golden
Duct tape is silver

[Gil4]

can't help wondering if there is an inner ear problem causing pain that the mother ignores...nothing like change in pressure to make a sore ear turn excruciating.

From the article: "The man began filming the three-year-old climbing on seats and screaming before the Lufthansa flight had even taken off." Mom needs to restrain the kid or they both need to get off the plane.

[AbolishCSEU]

BINGO!!! I can’t stand the no-spanking crowd. We are talking about an attention getter not beating the kid into oblivion. Meanwhile CPS continues to go after low hanging fruit instead of prosecuting REAL child abuse cases (too dangerous and politically incorrect)

[Bonemaker]

I always like this one too for unruly children.

[Bonemaker]

[Shethink13]

Of course! I am not in the habit of speaking to people that I don’t know and offering them medication. The kid had been screaming for over an hour at that point. The kid would have been happier if she had been able to relax and go to sleep, which is what Benadryl would have done for her.

Sorry. I wasn’t judging, just asking. It’s something that I would love to do but I fear I wouldn’t have the guts.