Well said, that was way too harsh. You did the right thing. So long as the triple dose is kept down for an hour than you are OK, the body absorbs it really quickly. To get it to go through faster get your children to take it with lemonade (the sugar helps absorbtion). You know your children best, and if you didn't think they were getting worse then you did the best thing for them keeping them home. It's easy to panick and I think that can be worse for the kids in the end as they'll get scared of being ill - you don't want them to think they're going to die everytime they get ill.