Medication Safety

Medication Safety

  • You should use medicines specifically for kids. Children at all times should not be given medicines prescribed for adults in smaller doses even when suffering the same health problem with an adult. Their bodies are not well developed while these adults’ medicines could results to side effects as they may work in a way different on them.
  • Before administering the medicines to the kid, read the directives cautiously. The medication label always indicates the amount of medicine to be administered, the frequency at the same time in which conditions and state. For instance some medications are to be taken without food, shortly before or after meals. Always measure the dose according to the weight recommendation and age.
  • Carefully check the components of the medication ingredient list. By this you will know which ingredients are active in the dose, that you may avoid administering other medications accidentally which contain the similar active elements on the ingredients. This will help to avoid any overdose at the same time you will know whether the ingredients contained can be allergic to the toddler so as to seek further medical guidance (Foundation, 2010).
  • Always make sure there is enough light when giving the kid any medicine that you may not mistake the amount of dosage or else interchange doses if they are of different types. You should always be relaxed and be in position to think and interpret the instructions. This will avoid simple mistake which can be very dangerous for instance mistaking a teaspoon for a tablespoon or the dosage that the instructions read “after every six hours as after every four hours,’’ (Health, 2010).
  • Measure the dose cautiously. After careful reading of the instructions, dispense the drug in its supposed standardized cup or the calibrated spoon. Never use the normal spoons in your house even when they seem to measure the same amount as the medication cup.
  • Dispose the expired medicines. They are not only less powerful but chemical changes might have occurred that can lead to dangerous effects. Some drugs however may not have expired but they may be the hangs of the earlier sickness which shouldn’t be used too. Before buying of the medicine always check their expiring dates (Media, 2010).
  • Never give your child drugs prescribed for another child. This should not happen even when the child suffers the same illness. It might have worked well to the other child, but in this case due to difference in weight, age, symptoms may not do so. In fact it might cause serious problems all the same (Woolston, 2010).
  • Always complete the dosage prescribed for the child. Before the complete of the full course, the toddler may appear well which doesn’t mean the end to drugs taking. If this happens there is the possibility of the persistent bacteria growing back.
  • Always store the medicines in a safe place. The toddlers’ should not at any time have access to the drugs. The drugs should never be stored in a moist place where some the instructions demand to be frenzied. Incase of emergency while administering the drugs always put away the drugs first. Never store the drugs in food or drink containers.

Never give the toddler the herbal medicines; they are too strong for them but you should ask the doctor whether they are okay to the child. In case there are adverse side effects to your kid report immediately to the doctor (Maryland, 2010).

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