I have had the misfortune to see a quadriplegic female aged 11 years with severe spasticity ++++ following asphyxia due to laryngeal spams and cerebral anoxia growing up with her disability following being forced / encouraged to swallow a single tablet.
Are there any guidelines to shift such nubile children from proprietary syrup preparations to tablets?
It is worse than SIDS, as the parents and the family of such paralytic-spastic children continue to maintain hope with physiotherapy, indigenous medicines, and whatever possible for years and decades.
Will infusion with stem-cells therapy help?
I will add references later.
27-MAY-2024
New Delhi
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Everybody and every Association is probably alive to this horrible situation.
But what practical steps are to be followed universally as rules.
Yes, cautions and/or precautions.
Gummies are not all are not all that matter or are available universally as all pharmaceutical formulations.
You have the child (3-12 years old or more) and you have the tablet.
What next to avoid such iatrogenic tragedies?
Steps?
Or no steps?