How to make a baby take medicine?

You give the baby a prescribed medicine, but it does not work for some reason ... Maybe the baby is not taking it right? Preparations of iron to the child is better for washing down with orange juice, and antibiotics and other medicines - in no event!

Did you know about this? And what about taking a vitamin-mineral complex and tea you need to wait 15 minutes, otherwise the microelements will not be digested? That the homeopathic remedies for colds, increased excitability and other misfortunes the kid should not swallow, namely to dissolve and, as experts say, "to clean mouth"? Without taking into account these important nuances, treatment will not only not be of use, but it can also harm the crumbs! How to make a baby take medicine, and how to teach them to take them correctly?

Before the meal or after?

To find out the answer to this question, look in the instruction to the preparation. If this is not specifically stipulated, give it to the child on an empty stomach, that is, not less than half an hour before feeding him, or 2-3 hours after a meal. Then nothing will prevent the medicine from correctly digesting by realizing the fullness of its action. This method of application is ideally suited for medicines for heartburn, reducing the acidity of gastric juice in gastritis and gastroduodenitis, as well as for plant extracts and homeopathic remedies that are recommended to drink, necessarily brushing your teeth and rinsing your mouth: the slightest admixture of foreign matter in the tongue - and the whole effect will go to nothing!

• Cholagogue preparations

The baby has dyskinesia biliary tract, and the doctor prescribed a choleretic? You need to drink medicine 10-15 minutes before meals, but you should resort to analgesics, antipyretic and non-steroidal (that is, steroid-free) anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), as well as to steroid hormones after it, because they irritate the mucous membrane of the children's stomach .

• Enzymes

Together with food usually take enzyme medications - mezim, panzinorm, festal, which improve its digestion.

• Vitamins and antibiotics

Give their baby can be before, and after, and at meals, but with this democratic approach, it is still better to look at the instruction: it all depends on what kind of preparation the child takes.

What's on the menu?

The stomach and intestines are a kind of chemical laboratory for the child's organism: the medicine should perfectly fit into the sequence of chemical reactions that take place here, so as not to cause the opposite effect. It's no secret that fiber fiber slows down with the absorption of tablets. Food, gastric juice, digestive enzymes and bile that are secreted during digestion can interact with the drugs, changing their properties. The result of treatment, its safety and effectiveness in many ways depend on the time at which the child took the pill, how it was drunk and seized. For example, pastries, pasta, sweets interfere with the absorption of calcium, which is prescribed for allergic reactions and fractures, and scrambled eggs and omelets inhibit the absorption of iron - these drugs usually give babies suffering from anemia.

• Acetylsalicylic acid (ASA, it is aspirin)

It is necessary to abandon the products containing preservatives and food coloring yellow tartrazine: it is added to confectionery. According to its chemical structure, it resembles ASA. which increases the risk of adverse reactions to this drug, and in children this danger is higher than in adults. This medicine, by the way, is poorly combined with eggs, tomatoes, cheese and leafy vegetables containing vitamin K (spinach, cabbage and lettuce).

• Antibiotics of the penicillin line

If the doctor prescribed your child so strong medicine. then the kid in no event can not eat something that contains even traces of mold - whether it's an apple with a rotten cask, a bit stale bread or even an expensive cheese like roquefort. This can provoke a crumb of the strongest allergic reaction!

• Diuretics

Offering the child such medicines. in the meantime, feed it with sources of potassium - dried apricots, raisins, apricots (this microelement of the kidney is actively excreted from the body along with the liquid) and limit sweets - drugs already increase the blood sugar level. Do not try to sweeten the baby's medicine by mixing it in jam, ice cream, mousse or putting candy inside. By doing this you largely neutralize the useful action.

• Preparations of iodine

Often prescribe to children with hypothyroidism (lack of production of thyroid hormones). The effectiveness of drugs reduces cabbage. turnips and other vegetables from the cruciferous family.

Than to wash down?

Ideally - cooled or boiled or bottled water (not mineral and without gas!) In the amount of 50-100 ml (unless the instructions say otherwise).

• Medications for heartburn

It is supposed to be washed down with alkaline mineral water (Essentu-ki-4, Borzhomi, Slavyanovskaya, Smirnovskaya, Sairme, Jermuk), and complexes with iron - acidic mineral water (Essentuki-17) and the same juices (orange, lemon, grapefruit, pomegranate, apple) , but never - tea and milk. By the way, if you pour buckwheat porridge with milk and cook oatmeal on it, not a single milligram of iron from these dishes will go to the baby's blood.

• Antibiotics (tetracycline, ampicillin) and preparations containing caffeine and calcium are incompatible with milk and soda.

• Acidic juices neutralize the action of erythromycin and enhance the effect of the agents that soothe the baby and normalize sleep.

• Grape and black currant juices slow the absorption of furosemide, amidopyrine and ibuprofen.

Compatibility check

Many drugs can not only enhance each other's action, but also reduce the therapeutic effect to none or even create combinations that are life-threatening.

• Ascorbic acid

It is better absorbed and more active in the presence of coenzyme Q10 and routine, and it in turn multiplies the effect of beta-carotene (vitamin A) and tocopherol (vitamin E). To iron better assimilated, you need the presence of copper and help a number of vitamins': B5, B6, C and folic acid.

• Calcium preparations

Take these funds to strengthen children's bones without trace elements - phosphorus, magnesium and vitamin D - not only senseless, but sometimes harmful - in the absence of these substances, it still can not be deposited in the bones, and instead will settle with sand in the kidneys or gall bladder.

• Antibiotics

To prevent side effects, they are supposed to combine with vitamins, antifungal drugs (nystatin or levorin), as well as with agents that repair the microflora. And from the whole wide drug line of such drugs, represented in the pharmacy, you need to choose those where there are no living bacteria. Running colonies of useful living bacteria into the intestines before the end of antibiotic therapy is meaningless - still perish. That's when you finish the course, then - welcome!

To chew or swallow?

If the baby does not know how to prepare tablets, offer him special remedies in the form of syrups and gently, in accordance with age and weight, calculate the dose of the medicine. And if the child is already 5-6 years old, help him to master this skill! Only a few of the medicines are recommended to chew or dissolve in water (activated charcoal, effervescent tablets and powders from temperature and headache), and this need is indicated in the annotation. In other cases, the integrity of a single dose can not be violated: this can have a bad effect on the condition of the teeth and assimilation of the medicine. Capsules, dragees, tablets in the shell and long-acting medicines (ER, SR, LP, forte are on their packaging) is not recommended to break, knead or chew - you need to swallow whole! Such dosage forms are designed to convey the active ingredients to certain parts of the digestive system, where as the coating dissolves, the "filling" is fully absorbed. If it is released earlier, by the time of absorption it is neutralized by digestive enzymes. The effect is the same as if the child swallowed a "dummy" - a placebo, that is, there is no psychological effect: if the crumb believes that the medicine will help, then it feels better, which owes its faith, and not the action of the drug.

And again about drug safety. It's not about the first-aid kit (in a house where a small researcher grows, it goes without saying). I want to remind you, dear mom and dad, another simple truth: all medicines are prescribed to the baby by a doctor, and the one you trust. The safety of your child is in your hands. Do not risk and do not self-medicate!

Dangerous goodies

Wishing sickly child a speedy recovery, we usually stuff him with vitamins - apples, tangerines, oranges, grapefruits and other fruits. Sometimes, so that the little bird drank the pill, we sweeten it in a literal sense with juices and providing him with a disservice. So, at least, say Canadian medical scientists. They found that if you drink histamine (antiallergic) drugs with grapefruit juice, you get 2 times less medicine than with normal clean water. A similar effect on most drugs was found in orange and apple juices, as well as in grapefruits, oranges and apples: the child should not eat them immediately after taking medication. So fruits - fruits, and tablets - tablets.