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Has anyone ever heard of giving a baby Tylenol AND Motrin?
Some lady told me that when your baby has a fever you should give him Tylenol wait 30 minutes and give the baby a dosage of Motrin??
Seems to me that this would be too much for a baby.
By the way my son is almost 9 months old and i didn't want to do it, or take the risk...
I googled it and i didn't find anything about it,
just wanted to see if anyone of you have ever heard about this???
7 Answers
- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Thats if the baby is running a high fever that will not break otherwise, You give one than if the fever has not broken then tou give the other the belief is that they get immune to one or the other that they work better going back and forth and no its not to much and yes i have given it to my son and daughter
Source(s): premed mom of 2 , 3 rd 34 weeks preggo - 1 decade ago
Doctors/Health professionals may suggest this if a baby's fever won't break/go down. It is not something that should be done regularly, such as for teething pain.
Each should be offerred as prescribed but at intervals (so if baby tylenol/panadol every 6 hours, and baby motrin/ibuprofen every 6 hours, alternate between the two giving one after 3 hours, then after 3 hours the other, then at the 6 hour mark (so after 3 hours), go back to the original medicine (e.g. 8:00 acetaminophen/paracetamol, 11:00 ibuprofen, 14:00 aceta/para, 17:00 ibuprofen, etc.)
Once again, it is a course of action you should take only if it is recommended by a doctor or other health professional.
- 1 decade ago
There is baby Tylenol, if that's what she meant. I give it to my son also. Jus don't do a high dosage. When you buy it... on the label it should tell you how much you should give your son depending on his weight/age. Just read the direction & label.
Honestly I've never heard of waiting half hour to give a baby a dosage of Motrin after Tylenol and I don't think that I would do it. If anything, you should call his pediatrician. But for my son's two months check-up they gave him children's Tylenol because he got his shots.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Yes, i do this with my son. He has febrile seizures (he seizes when he gets a fever). The docs told us to give him infant tylenol and then if his fever hasn't gone down within 1.5hours give him baby motrin. So thats tylenol, then motirn 90 mins later. It works. We have been doing this since he was 7 months. He is 19 months now.
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- 1 decade ago
this is how my pediatrician told me to give it to my baby and how all of my friends with babies do it tylenol is every 4 -6hours and motrin is every 6-8 hours so you give tylenol at the 4 hour mark you give motrin then at the 6 hour you give tylenol and repeat as needed or until baby has broken fever but no longer then advised on either bottle of the medicine
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Our PED said to alternate tylenol and motrin every 4 hours for fever or ear infection!
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