You wake up to your 8-year-old son crying in the middle of the night. He’s had a sore throat for a few days, which the pediatrician is treating with liquid Tylenol. As you grab the bottle and kitchen ...

Yin and associates note that the up to 50% of parents make errors in the dosing of liquid medication for children, but relatively few data are available to compare ...

image: Many of us use teaspoons or table spoons to measure out doses for ourselves and our children but this results in dosage errors! This new study finds that errors in estimating doses can be ...

A spoonful of sugar might help the medicine go down, but research suggests a spoon is a lousy way to measure out that medicine. Both the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Food and Drug ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. ‘Heaping’ teaspoon or ‘level’? That’s the nail-biting dilemma that ...

The song says a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down, but a study says that kind of imprecise measurement can lead to potentially dangerous dosing mistakes.The results, published online Monday ...

A new study published in the International Journal of Clinical Practice adds to research suggesting that, when it comes to measuring children’s medicine, a “spoonful” is seldom the right dose. The ...

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Spoons designed for medication administration, often known as dosing spoons or medicine spoons, are essential tools in healthcare. They are commonly used for administering liquid medications to ...