Medicines given incorrectly by parents and carers is the most common reason for accidental poisonings in Australian children under 12 months.
Accurately measuring and administering medicines to children helps avoid accidental overdosing or under dosing. But it isn’t always easy to think straight in the middle of the night when your child is crying in pain. There are ways that you can be ‘medicine wise’ with children.
7 ways to be medicine wise with children
Read the label
Make sure you read the labels and packaging EVERY time you are buy a new medicine and before you give that medicine to a child. Children’s medicine comes in different forms and strengths for different ages – which means the doses are different. Make sure you read the label and know the strength of the medicine when measuring a child’s dose, so you don’t over or under dose them.… Read the rest