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Preventing accidental medicine poisoning of children
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While medicine is designed to help us regain good health, any medication, whether prescription or off-the-shelf, has the potential to be harmful if taken at high dose or by a person not suffering from the condition the medicine is formulated to alleviate. Children, with their small, developing bodily systems and inquisitive minds are particularly vulnerable […]

How Low-Dose Atropine Slows Myoptic Progression in Children

Slowing the progression of ‘garden variety’ myopia in children is increasingly being seen as one of the ways ophthalmologists can help prevent myopia from possibly progressing to a pathological condition in later life. And low-dose atropine is fast cementing its position as the leading treatment in this area. It’s known that people with high myopia […]

Compounding and kids – how we can help

There’s no harder time in the life of a parent than when their child is sick. The overwhelming need to comfort them and ‘make it all go away’ is foremost in the mind of the worried Mum or Dad. We want them to get better – fast – and to make the remedy as painless […]

Expert warns kids may be exposed to harmful levels of additives in ‘off-label’ medication
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Children may be exposed to harmful levels of preservatives and additives used in some medications due to ‘off label’ prescription of adult formulations, warns a Queensland-based pharmacist. Specialist Compounding Pharmacist, Matthew Bellgrove said he wanted to increase awareness of the risks amongst Australia’s medical community after a number of papers on the issue were published […]

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