If your child gets a prescription for antibiotics and is told to take it 3 times a day for 10 days but by that time it's evening so they only get it once that day, do you count that as day 1 of 10 or do you assume you need to give 30 doses (and so do the breakfast and lunch doses on day 11)? There must be a better way to phrase this question. Do you do 10 days or 30 doses?
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As a peds nurse, I'd tell the parent to give the full 30 doses.
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@madisonbee: as a rph I'd agree
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@gotkimchi:
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We've always given the full number of doses, which means sometimes it's an extra day if we missed a couple here or there.
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Finish the whole prescription
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I voted 30 doses but really I just take or administer prescribed antibiotics according to schedule until the entire prescribed amount is gone. Likewise, if I missed a dose I would "make it up" by taking it as soon as I remembered and going forward from there - I wouldn't just skip it all together.
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Thanks, everybody, especially medical professionals - this is very helpful! We've always done the full 30 doses too but I always wondered.
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