Parents who thought of the medicine in milliliters were more likely ... At most pharmacies, you can ask for a free dosing cup, syringe, or measuring spoon when you pick up liquid medications.

Shonna Yin, a pediatrician at the New York University School of Medicine and lead author ... tablespoons ended up using a kitchen spoon rather than a measuring device provided with the medication ...

While most pharmacies will give you a free dosing cup, if you don't have one and you need to dole out medicine-- the recommendation is to use measuring spoons, not eating spoons. 2WTK wanted to ...

Using kitchen spoons to pour medicine is a common practice. A previous study on medication dosing found that more than 70 percent of households used teaspoons for measuring liquid medication ...

When pouring out doses of cold medicine, you may want to ditch the kitchen spoon for a more exact measuring device, a new study suggests. Depending on the spoon’s size, people tend to pour too ...

When the measuring cap that comes with the medicine bottle gets gooey and gummed up, the temptation is to grab a kitchen spoon to measure a teaspoon's worth of liquid medicine. It doesn't really work.

We’ve all been there – scrambling around looking for the Calpol spoon and making do with a tablespoon from the kitchen drawer instead. But using the wrong device to measure your tot’s medicine could ...

And 1 in 5 parents said they believe that using a household spoon is OK for measuring medicines. (It is not.) Those results are worrisome, Brikman says. The side effects of too much medicine can ...

They also brought their measuring ... the medicine bottle label often listed doses in teaspoons. Parents often assume that means any similar-sized kitchen spoon, the authors said." ...