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Suggest Treatment For Cough In A Child While On Crocin

Posted on Wed, 18 Oct 2017

Question: My son 4 year old with 17 kg weight having cough fell ill in the evening after Dinner, we administered Crocin 6ml however he immediately vomited. After an hour his temperature went to 102.5 F, we have him 5ml meftal. Immediately he had motion. We waited for more than a hour the temp did not come down, we started sponge his body here there was a drop in temperature by a degree. Please let me know with about info can we administer 5 ml meftal once again in a space of two hours.

Answered by Dr. Pradeep Kumar Jain (59 minutes later)

Brief Answer:
Meftal can be given at an interval of 8 hours

Detailed Answer:
Hi
Thanks for asking on this platform

I have gone through the query and do understand your concern.
Meftal contains mefenemic acid and the total daily dose should not exceed 25 mg/kg. So in a dose of 8 mg/kg can be repeated at 8 hours.
You can give paracetamol as the total dose per day is 60 mg/kg and it can be given at 4 hour interval with dose of 10 mg/kg.
Do tepid sponging to bring down the temperature.
You can give 6 ml of mefenemic acid(100 mg/5ml) at 8 hours interval and 7 ml of paracetamol(120 mg/5ml) at 4 hour interval.

I hope this helps.
Please let me know if you have any more questions.
Regards

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