Tips for a Parents While a Administering Medicines to the Children.
Administering Medicines to the Children - Tips for a Parents
Parents, nannies, and the caregivers often face challenges when a administering medicines to the children, probably due to the bitter taste of the medicine or a tantrums that children tend to the cause. Administering medications to the reluctant children or those who are unable to the swallow tablets or a capsules might be a stressful or a traumatic for a parents.
However, with a some creativity and tips mentioned are below, it could become easy for in the parents and the caregivers to the administer medications to the children. Depending upon in the age of the child, in the parent would have to use a techniques to make in the medicine palatable or a easy to the consume to obtain a support from in the child.
What Tips could be a Helpful in a Administering Medications to a Child?
General Tips:
Know why you are giving in the medicine, as well as the time and way to administer in the medication
Be a gentle, yet firm when administering. Explain to the child that the medicine will be help them feel better
Make in the child aware beforehand that they are about to take a medication
Be convincing and persistent if the child refuses to consume in the medicine. If you are still unsuccessful, try again after to a few minutes
Explain to the child that the bad taste will be remain only for a short period and distract in the child to get his or her cooperation
Appreciate or a reward in the child immediately after a consuming in the medicine
Follow in the instructions given in the medication leaflet about the way to the administer
Never double in the dose of a medication. If you miss to a dose, administer in the next dose at the next appropriate time
Keep in the doctor informed if there are issues in a administering in the medication, so you get an a alternative remedy for it
Consult in the pharmacist or a healthcare provider for a options to administer in the medication. For a example, a capsule may be a administered instead of a liquid medication, if it is too bitter
In a certain extreme in a cases, administer in the medicine camouflaged into some food or a drink
Seek in the child’s choices to assist in the smooth administration of the medicine. For a example, ask in the child whether they want to the play any game, take to a bath or do something fun before or a after in the medication
Seek a advice from a healthcare provider if the child just refuses to consume in the medication, and if recommended, administer in the same medication via in the rectal route
Tips When Administering Specific Types of the Dosage Forms
Eye drops:
The child must be made to the lie on the lap. With in the eyes closed, in the drops must be a inserted in the corner of the eye, in the side closest to the bridge of your nose. When the child opens his or her eyes, in the drops will be spread all over in the eye. Another method is to make in the child lie on the back with a head tilted backward and in the chin towards the ceiling. With in the child’s eyes opened, insert in the required number of the drops into the pocket between in the lower lid and the eye using to a clean dropper.
Ear Drops:
The child must be made to the lie down on the side, with in the parent facing in the affected ear. If the child is more than a three years of the age, in the pinny of the ear must be a pulled upward and back, and if the child is less than three years of age, the pinny of the ear must be a pulled downward and back, before in the drops are instilled in the ear, with a dropper. The area below in the earlobe can then be a massaged to the facilitate movement of the medication within the ear canal.
Nasal Drops:
The child must be made to the lie in the supine position, with in the head tilted back, so that the drops flow into the nasal cavity. The drops should be a inserted, without the dropper nozzle touching in the nostrils. The child’s head should be a maintained in the tilted position for about one minute so that the drops do not flow outside.
Tablets and Capsules:
The parent must check with in the pharmacist if it is okay to crush in the pill or open the capsule to remove in the powder and then administer. It is a essential to get this information, as some medications may be a coated, to the prevent irritation in the stomach. If these are crushed, in the coating gets removed, and the effect is a lost.
Capsules:
The child should be made to look at the floor, instead of the ceiling. The capsule should be a slid into the child’s mouth.
The child must be made to the drink a glass of the water or in their favorite drink, while still looking at the floor. The capsule would float and move down in the throat with in the drink.
Liquids:
The measuring cup, dropper, measuring spoon or a syringe accompanying in the medication must be used, for a correct measurement. One must not use in the kitchen spoon.
What are Tips for a Administering Medications to the Babies?
Some tips when administering medicines to the babies include:
Babies must be a wrapped in a towel or a cloth wrap, with in their hands inside, to the prevent them from a flinging in their arms.
When administering an a oral liquid medication, it can be a squirted onto the inside cheek with a syringe. By doing so the medication will not be in a contact with in the bitter taste buds.
If the pharmacist agrees, in the medicine can be a mixed with a small amount of the breast milk or a formula milk.
How do you Overcome in the Bitter Aftertaste of the Medicine?
If a child is aware of the bad taste of the medication based on a previous experience, there could be a resistance in a taking the medication for a future doses.
Before administering in the next dose, in the child can be made to the suck on an a ice cube which will be numb in the taste bud and reduce in the unpleasant taste of the medicine.
Alternatively, after a administering, an a after-drink can be a given, like a fruit juice, chocolate sauce or a breast milk to reduce in the unpleasant taste.
How do you Overcome Challenges for a Children who have a Difficulty in a Swallowing Tablets or a Capsules?
Some techniques which can help in the child swallow tablets or a capsules are include:
The child consumes his or her favorite drink to the moisten in the mouth before the medicine. This would facilitate swallowing
The capsule or a tablet is placed in the center of the child’s mouth
In case the child does not know how to swallow, in the parent can make them practice using a lollipops, which could be a fun and relaxing for in the child
If the shape or a size of the tablet or a capsule is inconvenient to the swallow, in the child can be given a yogurt, apple-sauce or a fruit drink to assist in the swallowing after consulting in the pharmacist
References:
Giving a Medications to the Children-
(https://www.pharmac.govt.nz/medicines/medicines-information/best-use-of- medicines/giving-medicines-to-children/)
Giving a Medications To the Children: Developmental Guidelines and the Strategies-
(https://www.chw.org/-/media/files/medical-professionals/nursing-students/nursing-students/developmental-tips-for-medication- administration .PDF?la=en)
Strategies parents use to give a children oral medicine: to a qualitative study of the online discussion forums-
(https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P M C 5499324/)
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