Medications and your child /

How to give medication and swallowing tablets and capsules

01 What Others Say

  • Pharmacy department: Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne

 Teach children how to swallow tablets and capsules

  •  Seattle Children's Hospital parent and family education

 Helping your child take medicine

02 I Want To Know More

  • Flavorex a US-based company founded by pharmacists who have developed a paediatric flavouring system which can be used as a guide if you are having enormous difficulty getting a child to take medication.

 The wheel of yuck

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Last updated: 14/02/2011