[blparent] Droppers to give infants medication/vitamins

[Tammy]

Hi,

Get a small syringe from the pharmacy and have them mark the inside of the plunger with a knife so you can feel how far to pull it up when the right amount of medicine is reached.  Then just give the baby the end to suck.  There’s also a soother with a reservoir in it that you can put meds in but I looked for one awhile back and couldn’t find one anywhere.  

hth

Tammy

From: Melissa Wagner 
Sent: Monday, January 31, 2011 5:32 PM
To: 'NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List' 
Subject: [blparent] Droppers to give infants medication/vitamins

Hello.  I appoligize if this has already been asked, but I am looking for a
way to safely measure my infant's medicine or vitamins in to a dropper so
that I can give it to him.  I know the dropper that comes with the bottle
holds more than the recommended dose.  If any of you have found a way to do
this that does not involve asking a sighted person to measure the medicine
let me know.  Otherwise I have come up with a plan to have my husband or a
sighted friend measure the medicine out and store it till I need to use it.
I am also looking in to a way to have the medicine stored and ready to give
if I can't find a solution for measuring by my self here.  Any tips are
appreciated.

 

Melissa

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