Many parents, before giving their baby one or another medical product, try to carefully study the instructions for the medicine, browse Internet sites containing information about the drug they are interested in. For example, suprastin is a lot of doubts in mom and dad. Often this distrust of adults is due to the fact that this medicine does not have a pediatric version. In fact, suprastin can be used to treat babies from birth, of course, after consulting a pediatrician.
Instructions
Step 1
From the very first day of life to one year old, suprastin is recommended to be given a quarter of a tablet twice or three times a day, at the discretion of the doctor who prescribed the drug.
Step 2
Before giving the crumbs a quarter of a Suprastin tablet, it must be thoroughly crushed to a powder state.
Step 3
Crushed suprastin can be diluted with a small amount of water and served to the child from a spoon, or you can mix it with the usual food for the crumbs.
Step 4
For children from one to six years old, Suprastin can be given either a quarter of a tablet three times a day, or one third twice a day. If the baby has already learned to swallow medicines, washed down with water, suprastin can not be turned into powder. Although parents should be aware that the medicine is very bitter and sometimes it is better to quietly mix it into food than to listen to the child's dissatisfaction and reluctance to take this medicine.
Step 5
Half of Suprastin twice or three times a day, as prescribed by a doctor, can be given to children from six to fourteen years old.
Step 6
Naturally, like most medicines, suprastin should be given to children only after a meal, and not on an empty stomach.
Step 7
Often, suprastin is prescribed not only as a medicine against allergies, but also as a means to relieve swelling of the nasopharynx, for example, in the initial stage of colds.
Step 8
In addition, suprastin has a mild hypnotic effect, which has a beneficial effect on the treatment of a particular disease, because everyone knows that the best medicine for a sick baby is sleep.
