2y Year Old Having Fever And Running Nose. What Is The Tylenol Dosage?

Posted on Wed, 3 Oct 2012

Question: Hi Doc,
My 2 year old daughter is having a temp of 38.8C. we gave her a suppository 100mg telynol which is a low dosage.
When can i give her next medicine which is 5ml Adol peditric syrup as her fever is not going down.
She is having fever since last 4 - 5 hours. Running nose . No cough.

Please reply
Thanks
XXXXXXX

Answered by Dr. Pavan Kumar Gupta (18 minutes later)

Hello XXXXXXX
Thanks for the query.
The dose of suppository is 80 to 100 mg every 4 to 6 hours,so you have not given a lw dose.
If you want to switch to oral paracetamol syrup,the dose is 10 to 15 mg/kg body weight of child every 4 to 6 hours.
You can give the oral paracetamol after 4 hours of the suppository.
I hope to have answered your query however you may revert to me for any further query.
Best of luck.
Thanks

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Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar