Fixing bad tasting infant drops when a 'spoonful of sugar' doesn't work
Monday, October 18, 2010 - 22:31
in Health & Medicine
A spoonful of sugar is the traditional way to help medicines ‘go down’. But getting young children to take foul-tasting medicines – even if their lives depend on it – requires more than a bit of added sweetener. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), each year over eight million children die of diseases that could be avoided if essential medicines were available in appropriate formulations for children.
