Common dosage of child's Motrin/Tylenol

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I would like to know according to weight how much for common children's motrin and tylenol is safe and how would I calculate it?:uhoh3:

Ex. 10 kg

or

Ex. 9 kg

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Whenever you can check peds doses by THE reference used by you facility. (I assume you are a student, though) Ours is The Harriet Lane Handbook.

Acetaminophen- 10-15 mg/kg PO q4-6 (PR dose is higher)

Ibuprofen- 10 mg/kg PO q6-8

Are you good to go from there?

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Specializes in Peds; Peds Oncology.

10mg/kg for both. That is a good starter.

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Specializes in ED, Pedi Vasc access, Paramedic serving 6 towns.

In our ED it is :

10 mg/kg for the ibprofen

15 mg/kg for acetominophen

-- sorry about the poor spelling

swtooth

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Our PR dose of Acetaminophen is the same as PO (15mg/kg). I've never heard of giving more PR. I've gotta look that up, it's got me curious.

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Specializes in er, pediatric er.

we do 10 mg/kg for motrin

tylenol 15mg/ kg

a 10kg child would get 100mg of motrin (10mg*10kg=100mg). tylenol would be 150mg (15mg*10kg=150mg)

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Specializes in Emergency Department.

In our ED, we do

Ibuprofen 10mg per kilo po

Tylenol 15mg per kg po and 20 per kg PR (although with PR doses I round down and one of our docs only gives 15 mg/kg PR)

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Specializes in pediatric, neonatal, ER/trauma, camp.

In our pediatriac hospital we do acetaminophen 10-15mg/kg and ibuprofen 10mg/kg. We use the pediatric dosage handbook by takumoto (SP?).

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Specializes in Anesthesia.

It's not that the PR dose is necessarily more. In anesthesia, we often given kids a LOADING DOSE ONLY of 40mg/kg of PR Tylenol intraoperatively after induction of anesthesia., then let the parents revert to the 10-15mg/kg regimen.

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