• Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    10 months ago

    Lay off the legal and illegal drugs, seriously. No, hiding them in a drawer isn’t baby proofing.

    Children’s medications aren’t scams, they have different doses for a reason (the reason is usually risk of overdose).

    Yelling and beating a child isn’t discipline and the southern Baptist church is a terrible place to take kids.

    I worked through a lot of this in therapy, but it still annoys me that I had better risk management in my teens than my parents did in their 30s.

    • papalonian@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      Children’s medications aren’t scams, they have different doses for a reason (the reason is usually risk of overdose).

      This will obviously very from med to med, but most stuff over the counter will be exactly the same for adults and children, just with instructions for children to take less.

      For example, both children’s and adult’s liquid acetaminophen (paracetamol) are sold in the US at a strength of 160mg/5mL, and they will both have the same instructions for children under 2, children 2-11, and people 12+