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Giving medications to children

Giving medications to children When giving oral and parenteral medications to children, safety is essential. Keep these points in mind:

Check the child’s mouth to make sure he has swallowed the oral drug.
Carefully mix oral drugs that come in suspension form.
Give I.M. injections in the vastus lateralis muscle of infants who haven’t started walking.
Don’t inject more than 1 ml into I.M. or S.C. sites.
Rotate injection sites.