Almost every children suffer from various types of diseases till 5 years as their immunity system don’t develop properly at that time. So you may have to medicate your children according to the doctor. But you must follow some rules protect your baby.

In this article, we’ll discuss 7 most important rules to medicate your baby.

1. Medicate According to the Prescription: Always follow the instruction of the doctor to medicate your baby. Because if they didn’t get the right dose, it may harm your baby. Most importantly, never try to diagnose or medicate your children by own, always consult with the doctor.

2. Don’t Give Expired Medicine: Children are always sensitive to medicines. So before purchasing you must check the package and expiry date of the medicine. Because expired dated medicines are life threatening to your children.

You also have to dump the liquid medicines after using but tablets or capsules can be used till their expiry date.

3. Must Follow the Time Schedule: You must follow the time schedule to give medicine to your child. If the doctor advice to give the medicine with milk or other food, or to take them before having food, you should follow the instruction properly. Otherwise, it may harm your children.

4. Follow the Right Dosage: Giving the right dose of medicine to your child is most important. You can do it by dosing syringe, plastic dropper, dosing cup or you may mix it with a little soft food. But never feed with your kitchen spoon or by mixing with the milk.

5. Never Medicate pretending to play: If you introduce the medicine as chocolate to your child, they may try excessive dose for fun. After vomiting of the first dose, take your baby to a registered pharmacist immediately. It is better to avoid injections and suppository instead of medicating through the mouth.

6. Follow the Proper Process: Use drugs measuring cup, spoon, oral syringe, droppers to give medicines to your baby. But most importantly, you should understand the measuring lines. While feeding medicine to a small child, it will be better to put the syrup at the corner of the lip.

7. Keep all medicines out of the reach of children: You can keep medicines at a high place in a closed box. Otherwise, they may eat them and as a result, their life could be at risk.

Usually, parents are responsible for taking care of their children and a little bit carelessness could put your child’s life at risk. So just follow the doctor's advice and dosages of drugs for your baby.

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