How to give your child medicine?

Successfully giving the drug a child sometimes requires a lot of creativity. 

Here we will mention a few practical tips to help you child to make the breakthrough.

* Do not mix medicine into juice or food that you give a child, otherwise the child may begin to refuse food that had not refused, and at the same time you will not know whether the child has taken the entire dose of medication prescribed.

* Always place the child in the mouth of a small amount of the drug so that it can not spit.

* Among children under two years of medications to avoid chewing.

* Child would rather take medication by mouth before meals.

In infants-a drug that is in liquid form is best given using a syringe, dropper, or pacifiers, and more children use the spoon.

Not re-fill empty bottles with medication, and use the eyedropper for the original, with a cure

-If the doctor recommends, continue giving the drug even if it is not pleasant taste, because children usually get used to the bad taste of medicine

-Use a shallow, plastic spoon, which receives the drug or supply at a pharmacy - it is easier to use than a teaspoon, and-to make sure that the child took all the medicine spoon to extract from his mouth, pull the upper lip with the child, that the less remains in the bucket

-If you give your child medicine with the dropper should be placed between the inside of the cheek and gums, and a few drops of ukapavati and wait for a child to swallow before proceeding.

What if the baby recovered drug?

Most drugs are absorbed within 30 - 45 minutes, and if the baby is able to keep medicine for so long, it usually does not need to replace the dose.

However, if your baby spits out a cure immediately, the dose should be repeated, unless a very precise way (such as heart medicine, asthma, etc..).

If the antibiotic drug, and the baby recovered within 10 minutes of taking the dosage should be repeated.

Babies are so sick, that generally can not keep receiving drug orally. This is usually done on medicines that contain acetaminophen, which serve to lower body temperature. If you come to this, it is recommended to lower the body temperature using suppositories (suppositories).

If your baby does not retain an antibiotic, it is necessary to contact the pediatrician. Today, there are antibiotics that are available in injectable form and act very quickly, but they are very expensive and are usually not prescribed drugs.

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