OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. — With seasonal illnesses rising, the Oklahoma Poison Center (OPC) is urging parents to marque definite they are giving children the medicines they request and the close dosages of those medicines.
According to the OPC, though they are alert of nationalist reports showing shortages successful children’s cough, acold and fever medicines owed to precocious demand, big doses oregon medicines fixed to children tin beryllium highly harmful.
“Over-the-counter cough and acold medicines are not recommended for children nether the property of 4 and should beryllium utilized lone if recommended by a doc successful children 4 to six years old,” says Kristie Edelen, Pharm D, DABAT, Assistant Managing Director of the Oklahoma Poison Center. “Children are dosed precise otherwise than adults. Most over-the-counter medications are based connected a child’s weight, and you can’t lucifer the close dosage by cutting an big dose.”
OPC said if parents are incapable to find the medicine needed connected shelves, inquire a pharmacist oregon telephone OPC to find an alternate option.
The pharmacist oregon OPC tin besides assistance find due dosing accusation and assistance find however to decently springiness the medicine to the kid successful need. Kitchen spoons are not intended to beryllium utilized successful giving a kid medication. It creates a anticipation of giving excessively overmuch oregon excessively small medication.
Pharmacists and registered nurses astatine the Oklahoma Poison Center are disposable 24 hours a day, 7 days a week astatine (800) 222-1222.
For much information, sojourn the OPC website.
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