Helping the medicine go down
Saturday, August 23, 2008 - 11:49
in Health & Medicine
Getting little Doug and Debbie to take a spoonful of medicine is more than just a rite of passage for frustrated parents. Children's refusal to swallow liquid medication - and their tendency to vomit it back up - is an important public health problem that means longer or more serious illness for thousands of kids each year...
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