A. Preparations before feeding
1, before preparation, carefully check the instructions or doctor’s orders, check the name and dosage of the medication.
2. Tools for medicine feeding.
Spoon: Suitable for newborns to children over 1 year old.
Syringe or dropper: the most suitable for infants and children who can not swallow yet.
Medication feeder: It is a good tool for 0-18 months old baby to make up for the defect of spoon feeding.
Medicine cup: It is suitable for toddlers over 1 year old who have learned to swallow.
Dessert: For toddlers over 1 year old, you can prepare a small snack as a reward.
3. Wash your hands and tools.
II. Time to feed medication
How many times a day you should take medicine and at what time, as long as the doctor has explained, you should strictly follow the doctor’s instructions. If the doctor does not specifically state the time to take the medicine, it is usually eaten after meals, and try not to use the medicine on an empty stomach, including drugs to help digestion, anti-inflammatory drugs, antiviral drugs, drugs to enhance resistance, etc. This is true. Conditioning herbs are usually chosen 30 minutes to an hour before eating because the stomach has been emptied at this time, which is conducive to the full absorption of the drug. Babies can take the medicine before feeding or in between two feedings.
The feeding method of liquid drugs
1. For infants under 6 months old, feed the medicine 1 hour before breastfeeding. The mother takes a sitting position and lets the baby half lie on the mother’s arm.
2. The mother should lightly press the baby’s chin with her fingers and let the baby open her mouth.
3.Take a small amount of medicine with a dropper or syringe type feeder and use the apparatus to slowly deliver the medicine into the baby’s mouth and swallow it along the inner wall of the mouth; you can also use a dropper or plastic syringe to inhale the medicine and then stick it into the child’s mouth and drip it along the inner wall of the mouth.
4.Gently lift the baby’s jaw to help him swallow.
5.After all the medicine is fed, add a few spoons of plain water with a small spoon and try to help the baby swallow the remaining medicine in the mouth.
6, about a week old children feeding medicine is more difficult, you can first feed a little sugar water, then feed a spoonful of medicine, before the child has time to resist and then quickly feed a spoonful of sugar water. This is repeated several times, you can feed the medicine.
7, to feed the medicine to young children, it is best to first patiently persuade and coax, and give praise and encouragement, most children can bravely take the medicine. If it is not possible, parents can pick up the child, half lying on their own body, and the child’s arms and legs fixed, so that his head to the side, with the left hand pinch his chin to make him open his mouth, the right hand will contain a small spoon of medicine close to the corner of the child’s mouth, along the buccal mucosa and between the molars to pour the liquid into the mouth.
8. Immediately after feeding the medicine, feed the appropriate amount of warm water to rinse the medicine left in the mouth and on the esophageal wall to remove the bitter taste of the mouth and avoid damage to the esophageal mucosa. After taking the medicine, parents should hold the child upright and pat its back, which can discharge the air in the stomach and avoid vomiting.
Fourth, the feeding method of tablets or capsules
1. Crush the tablets and pound them into a loose powder. Capsule-type drugs open the capsule can be.
2, take the appropriate amount of powder poured on a small spoon, and sprinkle a little powdered sugar on the powder, to cover the taste of the powder.
3.Let the baby open his mouth and then send the powder directly into his mouth.
4.Take a bottle with an appropriate amount of boiled water and give it to your baby to suck on to facilitate your baby to swallow the powder.
5.Give your baby a small cookie to reduce the bitter taste left by the medicine in your mouth.
6.Not all pills and capsules can be opened and taken. Be sure to consult your doctor before using them. Try to choose special drugs for children.
Five, feeding the contraindications of medicine
1, the infant medicine, do not give pills or tablets directly, should be powdered, add water and sugar to make a thin juice before the baby can take, swallowing pills to about four years old to slowly practice.
2, juice to wash the medicine, affect the effectiveness of the medicine. When feeding drugs can not be mixed with milk or juice, will reduce the effectiveness of the medicine.
3, do not pinch the nose to feed the medicine, do not feed the medicine when the baby is crying. Doing so, it is easy to choke the trachea, and in serious cases can cause damage to the lungs.
4, the reconciliation of drugs and boiling water to use warm and cool, hot water will destroy the drug ingredients.
5, don’t use the medicine bottle directly to the child to feed medicine.
6. Do not mix the drugs together. Some parents are greedy for convenience, anti-inflammatory drugs, antiviral drugs, cough water are stirred into a cup, the whole child to drink. In this way, the same will affect the efficacy of the medicine, but also may produce other chemical reactions. Medicine should be eaten after one followed by another, not mixed together, but also do not have to be separated between two drugs for a few minutes long. However, for the tablets must be finely ground, and water stirred and drink clean, antipyretic class of suspension should also be shaken well before drinking, or it will not play a certain effect.
The amount of medicine should not be increased or decreased at will. The problem of antibiotic abuse has made many parents more or less afraid of medication. The actual fact is that you will be able to get a lot more than just a few of the most popular and most popular ones.
8, it is particularly important to note that when feeding the child, if the child chokes and coughs, you must immediately stop feeding the drug to avoid choking into the trachea resulting in accidents.