The health professionals has released new guidelines, a more detailed description of antipyretic doses corresponding to the child's age, after a recent survey found 27% of newborns with paracetamol overdose.
Who led the study, said parents and doctors were "overconfident" when inventory paracetamol for children.
However, in the journal British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology of recent, he added that it is difficult to know exactly how much a child needs medication, and it depends on age and weight.
With this new guidance (expected to apply in the UK later this year), it will split the age group of children to prevent drug abuse. For example, children 6-12 years old are now the same group, taken from 5 to 10 ml each time, using up to four times a day, but the new guidelines, children will be divided into three groups, a two-year-old one level, with increasing number of drugs.
In addition, drug formulations for children at different ages and different. Specifically:
Formulation Age Dose
Suspension infant paracetamol
(120mg/5ml) 3-6 months 2.5 ml
6-24 months 5 ml
2-4 years 7.5 ml
4-6 years 10 ml
Suspension than paracetamol for children 6 years of age (240mg/5ml) 6-8 years 5 ml
8-10 years 7.5 ml
10 -12 years old 10 ml
Paracetamol is antipyretic, analgesic familiar to most of the parents for children.
"This change to ensure children receive the maximum dose of paracetamol priority, consistent with age. And because it very clearly divided doses, so parents will be easier to calculate the amount with their children. "
Who led the study, said parents and doctors were "overconfident" when inventory paracetamol for children.
However, in the journal British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology of recent, he added that it is difficult to know exactly how much a child needs medication, and it depends on age and weight.
With this new guidance (expected to apply in the UK later this year), it will split the age group of children to prevent drug abuse. For example, children 6-12 years old are now the same group, taken from 5 to 10 ml each time, using up to four times a day, but the new guidelines, children will be divided into three groups, a two-year-old one level, with increasing number of drugs.
In addition, drug formulations for children at different ages and different. Specifically:
Formulation Age Dose
Suspension infant paracetamol
(120mg/5ml) 3-6 months 2.5 ml
6-24 months 5 ml
2-4 years 7.5 ml
4-6 years 10 ml
Suspension than paracetamol for children 6 years of age (240mg/5ml) 6-8 years 5 ml
8-10 years 7.5 ml
10 -12 years old 10 ml
Paracetamol is antipyretic, analgesic familiar to most of the parents for children.
"This change to ensure children receive the maximum dose of paracetamol priority, consistent with age. And because it very clearly divided doses, so parents will be easier to calculate the amount with their children. "
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