The question of how to give to the newborn child medicine, often puzzles new parents. It can be febrifugal mixtures, a vitamin complex, antibiotics or something else. For this purpose to parents a certain ingenuity, attention and care is required.
Instruction
1. Before giving to the newborn child medicine, attentively read and study the instruction for application. If you doubt concerning intake of any given medicine, consult to the pediatrician at whom you are registered.
2. Often only cunning it is possible to force the newborn to drink medicine. Give it to the child kind of by the way as though and does not come to your mind that it can refuse to accept it, smile and talk to him as the newborn often peers at a mimicry of the people surrounding it. But generally most of children automatically open a mouth at approach of a spoon, and it is possible to give to the child medicine.
3. Strictly follow Regulations of Admission of drugs. They should be given to the child in the divorced and crushed look. Generally they are given in a certain time of day: to, in time and after a meal. In case the doctor prescribed yours breast milk or warm boiled water.
4. If you prefer to give medicine (syrups, mixtures, the made herbs) from the special syringe, watch that the newborn baby did not choke. For this purpose put a syringe tip in a corner of a mouth and accurately direct it to cheek inside. Then slowly press the piston that the kid managed to swallow gradually.
5. If it is more convenient to you to give medicine to the child by means of a spoon, put it on edge of a lower lip of the kid and without hurrying incline that medicine gradually flowed in the child's mouth. Get special nipples which can be filled with medicine in pharmacies, they are ideal for kids, and especially for those who like to suck a dummy. Such nipples allow to treat and calm the kid at the same time.