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If your child was prescribed a liquid or syrup preparation, you should make sure that the instruction on the quantity or amount of medication should be clearly written in the prescription. You should also ask from the clinician what is the best measuring device to use. Amounts that are lesser than one cc or ml should be clearly written with zero on the left of a decimal point followed by the number of cc or ml on the right of the decimal point. The clinician or pharmacist should give the you a measuring device such as a One cc or ml syringe to measure the exact amount as prescribed. Many medication errors has occurred because of wrong measuring device has been given to a mother by a pharmacist to measure less than one cc or ml. One mother was given 5 ml syringe to dispense 0.8 ml of medication. The mother misread the instruction and gave instead 8 ml of medication which is 10 times of the amount prescribed. Luckily, the baby did not have serious side effects from the overdose. Leo Leonidas, MD, FAAP; Assistant Clinical Professor in Pediatrics, Tufts University School of Medicine; Attending Pediatrician, Eastern Maine Medical Center, Bangor
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