How much Calpol?

[Mummasmurf]

On the bottle of calpol it says age 1-6 is one or two 5ml spoons.

This morning I gave DD age 3 two spoons not really full so I suppose about 7 or 8 mls.

I told the carer in the nursery this and she told me I was wrong and that only age 5 or 6 should have more than one spoonful.

She then condescendingly told me not to worry and that DD 'would probably be OK'.

How do you understand those instructions?

That's silly - she's wrong.

She is wrong. When ds was 1yr and 2 days old he had a terrible chest infection, I was worried 10ml would be too much for him but the nurses we saw told us that is absolutely fine (he also had nurofen).

10mls is fine as they could not put that on the patient leaflet. What it is meaning..is that you titrate the dosage to the age if poss. Like 7.5mls for a 3 year old. What they are saying is to find the optimum dose to keep the pain or temp down and it will avry from child to child and within that age bracket.

Thanks for your reassurance, I just had to check.

Hello by the way - I'm new.

hi im relatively new to..earlier this year.

If you can weigh your child in kg then the standard dose is 15mg/kg/dose up to four times/day.

Junior paracetamol suspensions (eg Calpol) contain 125mg/5ml of suspension.

So 10kg child can have 150mg which means that they can have 6mls.

You gave your dd 250mg which works out as 15mg/kg if she weighs around 16kg which is what my dd aged 3 weighs.

The silly nursery woman should not have worried you by saying that your dd "would probably be fine" as even if she had had a little too much as a one off dose it would cause her no probs whatsoever, in fact in PICUs they use up to 30mg/kg/dose.

LaDiDaDi is right. It's done on weight. The single time dd was admitted to hospital very poorly with bronchiolitis, we couldn't control her temp. Transpired that she (being a chubby little so and so) wasn't being touched by the standard dose. They weighed her and calculated accordingly. They gave more than the recommended dose on the packet and the effect was measurable. Of course I wouldn't do this at home but they did explain that it's a weight thing with children and they calculate based on what the scales say.

show off and laddida are absolutely right,but a bit of common sense is ok too. You nursery assistant shouldnt have worried you by saying that. If your child is very underweight then it could have made a difference as they said.