How to give medicine correctly
When the diagnosis is established and the necessary drugs are prescribed, the third, often the most
, is an important part of the child's treatment. Accurate use of prescription drugs is the responsibility of parents.
Many cases of unsuccessful treatment are caused by improper use of necessary medications.
To young children, liquid medication with careful dosage can be given in a spoon, using a pipette or a special syringe without a needle. A syringe medication is slowly injected into the baby's cheek.
Avoid jetting fluid because of the danger of getting into the airways. After taking the baby, you can offer to drink medicine with water or seize something delicious.
Children under three years of age should not be given capsules or tablets. If you can not get liquid dosage forms, you need to grind the tablets, dissolve the contents of the capsules in juice or food before offering the baby. However, before you start taking it, you need to check with your doctor about what medicines you can not grind or mix.
Children aged 5-6 years can swallow whole tablets and capsules. Help the child swallow the pill, putting it on the root of the tongue, and wash with water or a teaspoon of apple puree, jelly or ice cream. Be sure to make sure that the tablet is swallowed.
Dosage of
Most of the drugs are dosed depending on the weight of the child. It is very important to accurately dose the liquid dosage forms.
The expression "one teaspoon" does not at all mean an ordinary teaspoon. In this case, the expression "teaspoon" indicates a convenient measure, which, it is worth noting, can be purchased at any pharmacy. Its volume is 5 cubic milliliters.
The expression "half a teaspoon" assumes the volume of an ordinary teaspoon, half filled with a medicine. This corresponds to 2.5 cubic milliliters or half a measuring spoon.
Recently, for more accurate dosage of drugs for small children for oral intake, pediatricians recommend using special measures, similar to syringes. As a rule, they are attached to the medicinal product.
Medication regimen
Be especially attentive to the regimen of taking medication. Unfortunately, there are parents who believe that one can "forget" one of the techniques, instead of two prescribed times, give the medicine once, and the next day, on the contrary, three times to "fill" the pass.
The expression "four times a day" indicates that the child should receive four doses of the medication in 24 hours. These doses should be distributed throughout the day in such a way that the medication is taken during the waking period of the child.
The phrase "every six hours" should be understood as follows: every six hours a child is given one dose of medicine.
Do not increase the dose prescribed by your doctor. There are cases when parents at the very beginning of the treatment try to give the child more than prescribed to "nail the disease on the root."Needless to say, what consequences of such actions can be deplorable?
Duration of treatment
Most of the relapses and complications develop as a result of early cessation of treatment. Often the child's well-being improves significantly, almost to full recovery: pain in the ear stops, fever disappears, cough becomes less, appetite appears. However, this is not a complete recovery.
In cases of throat diseases caused by streptococcus, it takes at least a week to take antibiotics for recovery. Infections of the urinary tract
and ear diseases often need long-term treatment, despite the fact that the symptoms of the disease can disappear in one day.