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"The capsule is too big and it's too hard for the child to swallow. I want to dissolve the powder in water and give it to the child to drink."

"This medicine needs to be taken three times a day, just in time for the child's three meals a day, so he won't forget!"

"The doctor said to take the medicine after meals, so let the child take the medicine as soon as he finishes his last bite of food."

"I missed the child's medicine last time, so I'll give him a little more this time..."

In real life, many parents feed their children medicine in this way. However, these feeding methods are not correct and may reduce the efficacy of the medicine. Parents may not understand this.

In fact,Different drugs have different ways of taking them and at different times.Only by mastering the correct method and timing of taking the medicine can the medicine be more effective and help children recover faster.

This situation needs to be judged based on the tablet type and formulation process of different drugs.

Ordinary tablets and dispersible tablets can be broken or crushed before taking when necessary. The tablets can be cut along the notch or with the help of a medicine-splitting tool. However, most coated tablets, enteric-coated tablets, and sustained-release and controlled-release tablets cannot be broken or crushed before taking, otherwise the efficacy will be affected. The anti-epileptic drug sodium valproate sustained-release tablets (Depakine) can be broken in half along the notch but cannot be crushed or chewed.

Parents should also carefully read the drug instructions before giving medicine to their children. If the instructions say "swallow the whole tablet" or "do not break or crush", then the tablet should not be broken or crushed.

Good medication compliance is the prerequisite for drugs to work, but there will always be cases of forgetting to take medicine, which involves the complex issue of how to remedy missed or late doses. How to take the right remedial dose at the right time so that the drug concentration in the body reaches an effective level and is not too high or too low varies from person to person and from drug to drug.

First, each patient may have different medication dosage, missed doses, delayed medication duration, etc., which makes it impossible to generalize the remedial measures.

Secondly, for drugs with different dosing intervals, such as taking a drug once a day and taking a drug three times a day, the impact of missing a dose varies greatly, and the remedial methods are also different.

Therefore, when parents discover that their child has missed a dose of medication, unless remedial measures are clearly mentioned in the drug instructions, they should not take remedial measures on their own, especially not letting their children take double doses of medication.