These new bottles use a small device called a flow restrictor to reduce how much medication can be extracted from the bottle—a step we enthusiastically applaud. But different companies use ...

The content of liquid medication containers was emptied from 96% of open bottles (25 of 26) and 82% of the incompletely closed bottles (68 of 83) within two minutes.

MINNEAPOLIS - It's as fundamental a fear as any for parents of small children -- your child gets into a bottle of medicine. According to the Minnesota Poison Control System, it's a fear that is ...

A flow restrictor on liquid medicine bottles could prevent accidental ingestions, but drugmakers have yet to promise or deliver such protection on many pediatric medicines Starting in 2007, Dr ...

Lina Tuiasosopo, a mom of five and registered nurse in Texas, figured out that medicine time can go a little easier if you have a spare bottle nipple, which she demonstrated in a viral TikTok ...

For more information: Committee on Drugs, American Academy of Pediatrics. Inaccuracies in administering liquid medication. Pediatrics. 1975;56:327-328.; Botash AS.

He’d taken the cap off a bottle of medicine, then left it to answer the phone. When he turned around, he saw the little girl had managed to drink some of the liquid. It wasn’t enough to harm ...

Liquid Medication Instructions People are urged to read all instructions before taking liquid medication. The instructions will be on the bottle, on the box or on a paper inside the package.

At least 25mL of liquid was removed from bottles that were uncapped, incompletely closed, and uncapped but fitted with flow restrictors by 100%, 90%, and 11% of children, respectively.