How to use our dosing guide
Our Dosing Guide give dosages for common over-the-counter medications used in children. These medications are dosed according to weight. To calculate your child’s dose, look up his or her weight in the Dosing Guide and read across to the proper dose for each medicine listed. Dosages are given in milliliters. The abbreviation for milliliters is mL. If you are accustomed to using teaspoons as a dose for you child, please know that there are 5 mL per one teaspoon. However, for accuracy, we recommend using milliliter as our dosing measurement. Pharmacies have dosing syringes with milliliters printed on the syringe for ease of use.
If you do not know your child’s weight and if your child is too young to stand on bathroom scales, a simple way to determine his or her weight is to first weigh both you and your child as you hold him. Then weigh yourself alone. Subtracting these two numbers will give you a fairly accurate weight for your child. The doses listed in this Dosing Guide are standard doses which are safe for your child. In some situations we recommend doses of these medicines which may be slightly higher or lower than these doses. This should not concern you. If our advice calls for doses which are dramatically different please ask us the reason for this.
Because pharmaceutical companies change the ingredients of their medications from time to time, it is important to check the labeling information of the products that we have listed here in our handbook to ensure dosing information is correct and has not changed. If a product listed in our handbook comes out in a new formulation, please call our office to check on the proper dosing information. At the time of this printing all dosing information listed is correct.
Abbreviations:
mL = millilitercc = cubic centimeter
1 cc = 1 mL
1 teaspoon = 5 mL
1 tablespoon = 15 mL
Our Dosing Guide give dosages for common over-the-counter medications used in children. These medications are dosed according to weight. To calculate your child’s dose, look up his or her weight in the Dosing Guide and read across to the proper dose for each medicine listed. Dosages are given in milliliters. The abbreviation for milliliters is mL. If you are accustomed to using teaspoons as a dose for you child, please know that there are 5 mL per one teaspoon. However, for accuracy, we recommend using milliliter as our dosing measurement. Pharmacies have dosing syringes with milliliters printed on the syringe for ease of use.
If you do not know your child’s weight and if your child is too young to stand on bathroom scales, a simple way to determine his or her weight is to first weigh both you and your child as you hold him. Then weigh yourself alone. Subtracting these two numbers will give you a fairly accurate weight for your child. The doses listed in this Dosing Guide are standard doses which are safe for your child. In some situations we recommend doses of these medicines which may be slightly higher or lower than these doses. This should not concern you. If our advice calls for doses which are dramatically different please ask us the reason for this.
Because pharmaceutical companies change the ingredients of their medications from time to time, it is important to check the labeling information of the products that we have listed here in our handbook to ensure dosing information is correct and has not changed. If a product listed in our handbook comes out in a new formulation, please call our office to check on the proper dosing information. At the time of this printing all dosing information listed is correct.
Abbreviations:
mL = millilitercc = cubic centimeter
1 cc = 1 mL
1 teaspoon = 5 mL
1 tablespoon = 15 mL
