FDA Advisers Urge Infant Doses for Kids' OTC Fever Relievers

This is a good start and it's very important for parents to go by the weight of their child, but I am dismayed that they are pulling the infant drops which are the more concentrated which means less for a small child to swallow. We're talking the difference from .8 to 1.6 ml for small children, whereas the children's doses start at a 5ml. My 30lb toddler has trouble taking the small dose, I have to hold her down and hold her nose, it's a bit traumatic for both of us. Trying to get the larger dose that is the same equivalent is much much harder and we usually end up covered in the darn stuff because it tastes bad and she doesn't want to swallow it. Even my bigger kid has some issues taking the stuff, it's not tasty, which I've managed to explain away as they don't want kids to take it when they don't need it, but I can't explain that to a toddler... Keeping the infant dose and just adding the info for dosing bigger kids or hell even adults that can't or don't take pills would be awesome.

P. Brick of NV 1:28PM May 18, 2011