[e-drug] Stories on giving medicines to children (3)

["Regina Hardardottir" <RHardardottir@unicef.org>]

E-DRUG: Stories on giving medicines to children (3)
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Hi Atieno,

Personal experience : my daughter,  who is now in her late twenties, has
never been able to swallow a tablet.  I have always had to crush them
between two teaspoons and mix them with something fluid.  She still can't
swallow tablets and continues to crush them herself even though she is now
an adult.

Giving her and her brother liquid medicine when they were babies was of
course always difficult as they would spit it out and I could never be sure
of whether they had taken the right dose or not.

Regina Hardardottir
H.R. Assistant
UNICEF Supply Division Copenhagen
Tel.: (+45) 35 27 32 15
Fax: (+45) 35 27 32 88
E-mail: rhardardottir@unicef.org