It’s crucial for preserving the health of your child’s liver that you take care when administering painkillers with paracetamol:
Regulators are updating the information displayed on the labels of the medicines in order to make them clearer and better tailored to babies and young children.
The new guidance follows research published last month that showed one in four young patients is given too much of the pain reliever, putting them at risk of liver damage.
The study also found that parents often give their children Calpol or similar medicines containing paracetamol at home before going to the GP who then prescribes yet another painkiller.
At the moment, there is one age band for those aged six to 12 years-old, but this will now be split into three bands.
The guidance currently says children aged six to 12 should have 5ml to 10ml of medicine, up to four times in 24 hours.
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