The mother of an 8-month-old girl was given a prescription for her baby for amoxicillin 400 mg twice daily. Amoxicillin is an antibiotic commonly used to treat various ear, nose, throat, chest, and skin infections. When dropping off the prescription at the pharmacy, a pharmacist asked the mother for the child’s weight, which was 20 pounds. When the mother picked up the medicine, the pharmacist gave her a 5 mL syringe to use to draw up each dose of the liquid medicine. The directions on the prescription said, “Amoxicillin (400 mg/5 mL), give 12 mL twice a day.” The pharmacist told the mother to give her child two full syringes of the medicine (5 mL each), and then 2 mL of another syringe of medicine.
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