5ml medicine syringe

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One of my kids is on antibiotics. They came with a 5ml spoon. It looks so small compared to a 5ml calpol syringe so I had a little experiment.

The spoon holds between 2 - 2.5ml according to the calpol syringe.

Is the doing that arbitrary? I like how they do it in France by weight and the syringe is calibrated accordingly.

I always use the syringes as kids don't tend to have the lip control to even get all the dose from a spoon. you get half the dose left behind anyway. doesn't surprise me that spoons are inaccurate. any pharmacist can readily provide a syringe on request.

Are you sure its meant to be a 5ml spoon and not 2.5mo spoon?

I thought one end was 2.5ml and the other 5ml on those little white spoons that usually come with medicine. Much prefer the syringes though, easier to get into an angry mouth!