Calprofen vs Nurofen

[CFlemingSmith]

Very confused...
Just bought calprofen instead of Nurofen for the first time as it was all the shop had.
Both bottles are 5mg per 100ml, but Calprofen the dosage for 1 year old is half that of Nurofen? (2.5ml vs 5ml) Why is this?

I assume it's just the different strengths of paracetamol (calpol) vs ibroprofen (nurofen). You also have to wait longer between nurofen doses - think it's every 5/6 hours vs 4 with calpol.

Nice guidelines are 50mg 6-11 months and 100mg 1-3 years so calpolfen being over cautious perhaps

They arent different strength, you just seem to be able to give more nurofen than calprofen

Calprofen is calpol branded ibuprofen btw @doadeer

They are all very rough for small children is what I have been told anyway. If you want to be more exact and you trust your maths you can always look up the mg per KG dose and work that out in ml and give that. It will usually be higher than the recommended dose for that age range unless your lo has only just gone into the age range and is very small for their age.

Thanks everyone for your replies.

@doadeer as someone has said, I meant calprofen (calpols ibuprofen) not calpol, sorry, should've made myself clearer.

Would guess then that as you say it's calpol being over cautious, as I didn't know they were the guidelines. Hopefully 2.5ml will work fine as I just can't go against the box guidelines 😂

@BertieBotts Thanks! I might do that as I don't have an overly small child, quite the opposite actually!

Also you mean 100mg per 5ml, don't you?

Just looked up the mg per kg dose and my heifer of a 1yo can have 48-120mg per dose, so both 2.5ml and 5ml would be within the safe range for him.

Nice guidelines are 30mg/kg per day so my son would get 300mg as he is 30kg So 15ml
If your child is 10kg - 100mg - 5ml
Sometimes it easier to go via the bottle they give the guides to stop errors as it can be confusing

@BertieBotts Duh, yeah, baby brain is still going one year on! 100mg/5ml

Kaykay did you mistype? Your numbers don't seem to add up.

Figure I got was 4-10mg/kg per dose for pediatric dosing.

Max dose in one go 400mg, max daily amount 40mg/kg (or if you like, no more than 4 doses per day, which is what the bottle should say anyway)