Choosing the right dosage form is more convenient.
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Fruit-flavored drugs are preferred
Parents should give priority to fruity dosage forms suitable for babies when choosing dosage forms.
Fruit effervescent is probably the most popular dosage form for children. Because effervescent tablets produce a large number of bubbles (carbon dioxide) after being put into water, it is very interesting for children, will not resist psychologically, and tastes good, similar to bubble water.
However, we must pay attention to the correct usage. Effervescent tablets must not be swallowed directly.
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Try not to choose capsules
Capsules are the most unpopular dosage form, because they are especially easy to stick to the oral cavity or esophagus and are very uncomfortable. Therefore, when taking medicine for children, don’t choose capsules if you can.
If there is really no choice, you can let the child drink some water to keep his mouth moist, then put the capsule into his mouth and swallow it with a gulp of water.
Dosage form adjustment feeding strategy
If the drug is a tablet, and taking it after dissolving in water does not affect the drug effect or increase toxicity, the tablet can be ground into powder first, dissolved in warm boiled water, and then made into a [liquid agent].
The feeding method of liquid agent is relatively simple. You can first raise the child’s head and tilt his face sideways, then put the spoon into the root of the tongue, gently press the root of the tongue to urge the child to swallow, hear a thud, confirm that the child has swallowed the medicine, and then take out the spoon.
[Force Feeding] Also Needs Skills,
If the child is especially resistant to opening his mouth, he can press and hold the maxillary joint of the child’s cheeks with his thumb and index finger to separate the upper and lower jaws.
If the child vomits immediately after taking the medicine, the corresponding amount can be properly replenished. However, if vomiting takes half an hour after taking the medicine, there is no need to supplement the amount.
Don’t increase the amount of medicine each time in order to reduce the number of times of medicine feeding. Mother, you are poisoning your child.
Psychological foreshadowing is very important at ordinary times.
In order not to make the children feel that the bitter medicine is a scourge, when the children start to add supplementary foods at the age of 6 months, they can be given some bitter food, such as balsam pear juice, mustard soup, etc., so that the children will not be so [afraid of bitter food].
When the child can eat with a spoon, he can start to adopt [psychological tactics]. Instead of taking medicine as a punishment to frighten the child, he should make the child feel that taking medicine is very brave.
Another clever method is to prepare a cartoon image box that children like, put the medicine they need to take in advance, and take it out of the cartoon box when taking the medicine, which can also improve children’s friendliness to the medicine. Children, good mood is the basis of feeding.
In a word, everything is the same, and it’s not that difficult to find the right method, is it ~