Doctors have issued warnings to parents that they should be very careful when giving smaller doses of adult painkiller and anti-fever medication to children amid reports of shortages of Tylenol and other drugs.
“It’s probably a very dangerous maneuver, number one, because children and infants are dosed very differently than adults,” Dr. Jay Schauben of the Florida Poison Information Center told News4Jax over the weekend. “And just by cutting tablets in half, you may not be giving them the correct dose—you may be overdosing them, or you may be underdosing them,” he added.
