{"id":5850,"date":"2017-09-15T15:43:48","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T15:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onlinecprcertification.net\/blog\/?p=5850"},"modified":"2025-04-18T08:15:27","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T08:15:27","slug":"many-kids-medication-mistakes-being-committed-unknowingly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onlinecprcertification.net\/blog\/many-kids-medication-mistakes-being-committed-unknowingly\/","title":{"rendered":"Many Kids Medication Mistakes Being Committed Unknowingly"},"content":{"rendered":"

Once ill kids leave the health centers; parents in most cases never understand the follow-up care, which is needed. Some don\u2019t know how the children should be given the medicine. This was a suggestion by research reviews.<\/p>\n

Getting right instructions is quite important to avoid making mistakes that may lengthen children`s illness. At times, the illness prolongs to an extent that children have to be returned to the hospital to seek additional care. Medication errors were found to be the most prominent problem according to researchers in a review of sixty four studies. For instance, up to thirty eight percent of caregivers and parents did not have awareness on the appropriate medicine dose & up to 42% of the parents seemed not to understand the number of times the children had to take- in the prescribed drugs.<\/p>\n

Dosing errors and prescriptions<\/b><\/p>\n

Parents giving their kids roughly 20% less or more medication than prescribed happened regularly. Most of these errors took place when measuring the liquid medications normally given to the children.<\/p>\n

Generally, under dose worsen a child`s condition while an overdose exposes children to serious side effects. This was according to Dr. Alexander Glick, lead study author. Many times, parents did not understand the follow-up appointment the children needed as well as the symptoms of worsening illness, which may create the need for a child to be taken back to the hospital.<\/p>\n

Roughly, 62% of families failed the follow-up appointments recommended after children are discharged from the hospital. This was the same case with 81% of families whose children received treatment in emergency rooms. If not administered right, it could lead to dire circumstances where children may require care from a BLS healthcare provider<\/b><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Why parents miss the follow up appointments<\/b><\/p>\n

In most cases, the parents did miss those appointments while others failed to schedule the appointments for a number of reasons, which include;<\/p>\n