Common ENT Problems and
Managements
Lt Dhirendra Kumar Tiwari
ENT
• Ear
• Nose
• Throat
• All 3 are releated to each
other.
• How?
Otologic Anatomy
• Auricle
• Ear canal
• Tympanic
membrane
• Middle ear &
mastoid
• Inner Ear
Nasal Septum
Lateral Wall
ESSENTIAL EQUIPMENT
• OTOSCOPE
• TORCH
• TONGUE DEPRESSOR
• THUDICUM NASAL
SPECULUM
• ARTERY FORCEPS
• JOBSON HORNE PROBE
OR EUSTACHIAN
CATHETER
THE NORMAL EAR
Common problems in Ear
• Pain
– Wax
– Furuncle
– Foreign body
• Ear discharge
DISORDERS OF EAR CANAL
FURUNCULOSIS OF EAR CANAL (OTITIS EXTERNA)
• CAUSE : STREPTOCOCCAL / STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTION OF SKIN OF EAC
• TREATMENT : ANTIBIOTICS, ANALGESICS
• MAY BE ASSOCIATED WITH UNTREATED MIDDLE EAR INFECTION
DISORDERS OF EAR CANAL
WAX EAR (RT) OTOMYCOSIS (LT)
TREATMENT : WAX SOFTENING DROPS
FOLLOWED BY SYRINGING AFTER ONE WEEK
TREATMENT : ANTIFUNGAL EAR DROPS
CAUTION : ALL EAR DROPS ARE NOT EQUIVALENT!!!
DISORDERS OF MIDDLE EAR
TRAUMATIC PERFORATION
•DIAGNOSIS
– HISTORY OF TRAUMA
– RAGGED EDGES OF PERFORATION
– FRESH BLEEDING
•TREATMENT
– NO EAR DROPS
– KEEP EAR DRY
– ORAL ANTIBIOTICS,
ANTIHISTAMINICS
– REVIEW AFTER ONE MONTH
•IF DUE TO NOISE OF MIL
WEAPONS… IT IS IMPULSE NOISE
TRAUMA… INNER EAR NEEDS
EVALUATION FOR NIHL!
DISORDERS OF MIDDLE EAR
ACUTE SUPPURATIVE OTITIS MEDIA
•STAGES
– TUBAL OCCLUSION
– PRESUPPURATION
– SUPPURATION
– DISCHARGE/RESOLUTION/ COMPLICATIONS
•TREATMENT
– ORAL ANTIBIOTICS
– ANALGESICS
– ANTIHISTAMINICS
– NASAL DECONGESTANTS
– FOLLOWUP
•SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS
– ROLE OF EAR DROPS
– MYRINGOTOMY
DISORDERS OF MIDDLE EAR
SEROUS OTITIS MEDIA (GLUE EAR/
OME)
•SYMPTOMS
– INSIDIOUS ONSET, LONG STANDING
CONDITON (3 MONTHS)
– HEARING LOSS
– OCCASSIONAL OTALGIA
– BUBBLING SOUNDS, ECHO OF OWN VOICE
•TREATMENT
– CORTICOSTEROID / ANTIHISTAMINIC NASAL
SPRAYS
– ORAL DECONGESTANTS / ANTIHISTAMINICS
– CHEWING GUM, BLOWING BALLOONS
– MYRINGOTOMY AND GROMMET INSERTION
•SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS
– ROLE OF ADENOTONSILLECTOMY
– ROLE OF TEMPORARY HEARING AID
– DIFFERENTIATION FROM AOM WITH
EFFUSION
DISORDERS OF MIDDLE EAR
CHRONIC OTITIS MEDIA
•CLASSIFICATION
– MUCOSAL
• ACTIVE
• INACTIVE
– SQUAMOUS
•TREATMENT
– DRY THE EAR
• TOPICAL ANTIBIOTIC/ STEROID EAR DROPS
• ORAL ANTIHISTAMINICS
– OPERATE THE EAR
• SAFE,DRY,FUNCTIONING EAR
•SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS
– COMPLICATIONS OF COM
– RESULTS OF SURGERY
– RESTORATION OF HEARING
SYRINGING THE EAR
• USEFUL FOR WAX REMOVAL,
FOREIGN BODY REMOVAL
• USE 50 ml SYRINGE, LARGE BORE IV
CANNULA
• WATER AT BODY TEMPERATURE TO
AVOID CALORIC EFFECT
• COUNSEL PATIENT BEFOREHAND
• AVOID OVERINSERTION
• DIRECT FLOW TOWARDS OCCIPUT
• USE A KIDNEY TRAY TO COLLECT
WASTE WATER
THE NOSE AND PARANASAL SINUSES
Common problems in Nose
• Furuncle
• Epistaxis(bleeding)
• Cold(running nose)
• Sneezing(allergic rhinitis)
• Sinusitis
• Foreign body
NASAL VESTIBULITIS
• STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTION OF
NASAL HAIR FOLLICLES
• INVOLVES DANGER AREA OF
FACE
• EXQUISITELY PAINFUL
• TREATMENT
– INJECTABLE ANTIBIOTICS
– ANALGESICS
– TOPICAL ANTIBIOTIC CREAM
INTRANASAL POLYPS
• DIFFERENTIATE HYPERTROPHIED
INFERIOR TURBINATE FROM
INTRANASAL POLYPS
• ALLERGIC POLYPS ARE USUALLY
BILATERAL, MULTIPLE, AND PALE
• MEDICAL POLYPECTOMY
– SHORT COURSE ORAL STEROID
– INTRANASAL CORTICOSTEROID
SPRAY
– ORAL ANTIHISTAMINICS
• SURGICAL MANAGEMENT : FESS
ALLERGIC RHINITIS
• DIAGNOSIS
– PAROXYSMAL SNEEZING, WATERY
RHINORRHOEA,NASAL ITCHING AND STUFFINESS
– SEASONAL OR PERENNIAL
– GENETIC PREDISPOSITION
– OFTEN ASSOC WITH OTHER ATOPIC MANIFESTATIONS
IN EYE, EAR AND THROAT ,ALLERGIC POLYPS OR
BRONCHIAL ASTHMA
– MAY PROGRESS TO SINUSITIS IF UNTREATED
• TREATMENT
– AVOIDANCE OF ALLERGEN
– INTRANASAL CORTICOSTEROID/ ANTIHISTAMINE
SPRAYS (FLUTICASONE / AZELASTINE)
– ORAL ANTIHISTAMINICS (CETRIZINE/ FEXOFENADINE)
– ORAL ANTI LEUKOTRIENE (MONTELEUKAST)
• SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS
– AVOID USE OF TOPICAL DECONGESTANTS LIKE NASIVION/
OTRIVIN … RHINITIS MEDICAMENTOSA!
– LIFELONG TREATMENT MAY BE REQUIRED!
ACUTE SINUSITIS
• PRESENTATION
– ACUTE INFLAMMATION OF SINUS
MUCOSA DUE TO INFECTION
– FEVER, HEADACHE, PURULENT NASAL
DISCHARGE, ERYTHEMA AND
TENDERNESS OVER AFFECTED SINUSES
• TREATMENT
– ANTIBIOTICS
– ANALGESICS
– TOPICAL DECONGESTANTS
– ANTIHISTAMINICS
– STEAM INHALATION
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OF
EPISTAXIS
• FIRST AID
– SIT THE PATIENT UPRIGHT AND PINCH THE NOSE
(TROTTER’S METHOD)
• IF BLEEDING PERSISTS
– FOR POSTERIOR NASAL BLEEDING INFLATE A
FOLEY’S CATHETER IN NASOPHARYNX
– FOR ANTERIOR NASAL BLEEDING DO ANTERIOR
NASAL PACKING WITH RIBBON GAUZE OR
GELFOAM STRIPS
• IF BLEEDING STOPS SPONTANEOUSLY /
MINOR BLEEDING
– DECONGESTANT DROPS, ANTIHISTAMINICS,
ANTIBIOTICS
• IF ELDERLY PATIENT WITH HYPERTENSION
– CHECK BLOOD PRESSURE
– ELICIT MEDICATION HISTORY
– RESTART ANTIHYPERTENSIVES
REMOVAL OF NASAL FOREIGN BODIES
• REMOVE UNDER VISION USING
AN EUSTACHIAN CATHETER OR
JOBSON HORNE PROBE
• DO NOT PUSH THE FOREIGN
BODY FURTHER INTO THE
NASOPHARYNX
• CONSIDER SEDATING OR
RESTRAINING THE CHILD
THE THROAT
Common problems of Throat
• Cough
• Throat pain
– Tonsilitis
– Peritonsilar abscess
– Pharangitis
• Mouth ulcers
Cough
Pharyngitis
Antihistaminics
Mouth ulcers
Also known as aphthus ulcers.
Mouth ulcer gel
MultiVit
ACUTE TONSILLITIS
• PRESENTATION
– PAINFUL SORE THROAT
– FEVER
– ODYNOPHAGIA
– TONSILLAR SWELLING
– LYMPHADENOPATHY
• MANAGEMENT
– ANTIBIOTICS
– ANALGESICS
– SALT WATER GARGLES
PERITONSILLAR ABSCESS
• PRESENTATION
– VERY PAINFUL SORE THROAT
– HIGH FEVER
– MARKED ODYNOPHAGIA – INABILITY TO
SWALLOW SALIVA
– HOT POTATO VOICE
– TRISMUS
– SWELLING OF SOFT PALATE, ANTERIOR
PILLARS
– TONSIL MAY OR MAY NOT BE ENLARGED
– DEVIATION OF UVULA TO OPPOSITE SIDE
– TORTICOLLIS
– CERVICAL LYMPHADENOPATHY
• MANAGEMENT
– I & D
– ANTIBIOTICS
– ANALGESICS
– SALT WATER GARGLES
CHRONIC TONSILLITIS
• PRESENTATION
– RECURRENT ATTACKS OF ACUTE
TONSILLITIS
– ERYTHEMA OF ANTERIOR PILLARS
– TONSILS MAY SHOW VARYING
DEGREE OF ENLARGEMENT
– JUGULODIGASTRIC
LYMPHADENOPATHY
• MANAGEMENT
– TONSILLECTOMY
FOREIGN BODY OESOPHAGUS
• PRESENTATION
– TYPICAL HISTORY OF INGESTION
– DYSPHAGIA, DROOLING
– BEWARE OF HOARSENESS,
DYSPNOEA, STRIDOR … THESE MAY
INDICATE FOREIGN BODY IN AIRWAY
• MANAGEMENT
– X RAY NECK, CHEST AP AND LATERAL
– ASK FOR TIME OF LAST MEAL, DRINK
– KEEP NIL ORALLY IF OPERATIVE
INTERVENTION PLANNED
– FISH BONES ARE USUALLY
RADIOLUCENT, SMALL CHICKEN
BONES MAY BE OBSCURED
– OESOPHAGOSCOPY IS THE GOLD
STANDARD INVESTIGATION
– IF THE FB HAS REACHED THE
STOMACH, IT WILL USUALLY PASS
OUT WITHOUT DIFFICULTY!
Summary
Important part
• Cetrizine or Levocetrizine 5mg tabs
• 6 month to 2 yrs – 2.5 mg od
• 2 to 6 yrs – 2.5 mg bd
• > 6 yrs 5 mg bd
• (syr 5mg per 5 ml)
Augmentin
• Amoxycilline with clavulanic acid.
• Dose in adults- 625 mg tds or 1 gm bd
• Dose in childrens
– 20-40 mg/kg/day in 2 divided doses
– Syr each 5 ml contains 200mg…so,
– ½ of body wt.of baby in ml bd*
For cough
• Adults –syr cough 2TSF tds
• Childrens upto wt 20 to 3o kgs – TSF tds
• Pediatrics -Syr Tixylix
– each 5 ml contains
• 1.5 mg promethazine
• 1.5 mg pholcodine
• ½ of body wt.of baby in ml- tds*
For Ear Pain
• Adults –voveron or combiflam
• Pediatrics – Syr Ibugesic(ibuprofen)
– Dose 10-15 mg/kg/dose 6 hrly
– Each 5 ml contains 100mg,so
– ½ of body wt.of baby in ml- tds*
Fever
• PCM
– Adults 500mg sos or tds
– Pediatrics
• 15 mg/kg/day in 3 divided dose
• Syr each 5 ml contains 125 mg,so…
– ½ of body wt.of baby in ml- tds*
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ENT Problem and its management techniques.pdf

  • 1.
    Common ENT Problemsand Managements Lt Dhirendra Kumar Tiwari
  • 2.
    ENT • Ear • Nose •Throat • All 3 are releated to each other. • How?
  • 3.
    Otologic Anatomy • Auricle •Ear canal • Tympanic membrane • Middle ear & mastoid • Inner Ear
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    ESSENTIAL EQUIPMENT • OTOSCOPE •TORCH • TONGUE DEPRESSOR • THUDICUM NASAL SPECULUM • ARTERY FORCEPS • JOBSON HORNE PROBE OR EUSTACHIAN CATHETER
  • 13.
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    Common problems inEar • Pain – Wax – Furuncle – Foreign body • Ear discharge
  • 15.
    DISORDERS OF EARCANAL FURUNCULOSIS OF EAR CANAL (OTITIS EXTERNA) • CAUSE : STREPTOCOCCAL / STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTION OF SKIN OF EAC • TREATMENT : ANTIBIOTICS, ANALGESICS • MAY BE ASSOCIATED WITH UNTREATED MIDDLE EAR INFECTION
  • 16.
    DISORDERS OF EARCANAL WAX EAR (RT) OTOMYCOSIS (LT) TREATMENT : WAX SOFTENING DROPS FOLLOWED BY SYRINGING AFTER ONE WEEK TREATMENT : ANTIFUNGAL EAR DROPS CAUTION : ALL EAR DROPS ARE NOT EQUIVALENT!!!
  • 17.
    DISORDERS OF MIDDLEEAR TRAUMATIC PERFORATION •DIAGNOSIS – HISTORY OF TRAUMA – RAGGED EDGES OF PERFORATION – FRESH BLEEDING •TREATMENT – NO EAR DROPS – KEEP EAR DRY – ORAL ANTIBIOTICS, ANTIHISTAMINICS – REVIEW AFTER ONE MONTH •IF DUE TO NOISE OF MIL WEAPONS… IT IS IMPULSE NOISE TRAUMA… INNER EAR NEEDS EVALUATION FOR NIHL!
  • 18.
    DISORDERS OF MIDDLEEAR ACUTE SUPPURATIVE OTITIS MEDIA •STAGES – TUBAL OCCLUSION – PRESUPPURATION – SUPPURATION – DISCHARGE/RESOLUTION/ COMPLICATIONS •TREATMENT – ORAL ANTIBIOTICS – ANALGESICS – ANTIHISTAMINICS – NASAL DECONGESTANTS – FOLLOWUP •SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS – ROLE OF EAR DROPS – MYRINGOTOMY
  • 19.
    DISORDERS OF MIDDLEEAR SEROUS OTITIS MEDIA (GLUE EAR/ OME) •SYMPTOMS – INSIDIOUS ONSET, LONG STANDING CONDITON (3 MONTHS) – HEARING LOSS – OCCASSIONAL OTALGIA – BUBBLING SOUNDS, ECHO OF OWN VOICE •TREATMENT – CORTICOSTEROID / ANTIHISTAMINIC NASAL SPRAYS – ORAL DECONGESTANTS / ANTIHISTAMINICS – CHEWING GUM, BLOWING BALLOONS – MYRINGOTOMY AND GROMMET INSERTION •SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS – ROLE OF ADENOTONSILLECTOMY – ROLE OF TEMPORARY HEARING AID – DIFFERENTIATION FROM AOM WITH EFFUSION
  • 20.
    DISORDERS OF MIDDLEEAR CHRONIC OTITIS MEDIA •CLASSIFICATION – MUCOSAL • ACTIVE • INACTIVE – SQUAMOUS •TREATMENT – DRY THE EAR • TOPICAL ANTIBIOTIC/ STEROID EAR DROPS • ORAL ANTIHISTAMINICS – OPERATE THE EAR • SAFE,DRY,FUNCTIONING EAR •SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS – COMPLICATIONS OF COM – RESULTS OF SURGERY – RESTORATION OF HEARING
  • 21.
    SYRINGING THE EAR •USEFUL FOR WAX REMOVAL, FOREIGN BODY REMOVAL • USE 50 ml SYRINGE, LARGE BORE IV CANNULA • WATER AT BODY TEMPERATURE TO AVOID CALORIC EFFECT • COUNSEL PATIENT BEFOREHAND • AVOID OVERINSERTION • DIRECT FLOW TOWARDS OCCIPUT • USE A KIDNEY TRAY TO COLLECT WASTE WATER
  • 22.
    THE NOSE ANDPARANASAL SINUSES
  • 23.
    Common problems inNose • Furuncle • Epistaxis(bleeding) • Cold(running nose) • Sneezing(allergic rhinitis) • Sinusitis • Foreign body
  • 24.
    NASAL VESTIBULITIS • STAPHYLOCOCCALINFECTION OF NASAL HAIR FOLLICLES • INVOLVES DANGER AREA OF FACE • EXQUISITELY PAINFUL • TREATMENT – INJECTABLE ANTIBIOTICS – ANALGESICS – TOPICAL ANTIBIOTIC CREAM
  • 25.
    INTRANASAL POLYPS • DIFFERENTIATEHYPERTROPHIED INFERIOR TURBINATE FROM INTRANASAL POLYPS • ALLERGIC POLYPS ARE USUALLY BILATERAL, MULTIPLE, AND PALE • MEDICAL POLYPECTOMY – SHORT COURSE ORAL STEROID – INTRANASAL CORTICOSTEROID SPRAY – ORAL ANTIHISTAMINICS • SURGICAL MANAGEMENT : FESS
  • 26.
    ALLERGIC RHINITIS • DIAGNOSIS –PAROXYSMAL SNEEZING, WATERY RHINORRHOEA,NASAL ITCHING AND STUFFINESS – SEASONAL OR PERENNIAL – GENETIC PREDISPOSITION – OFTEN ASSOC WITH OTHER ATOPIC MANIFESTATIONS IN EYE, EAR AND THROAT ,ALLERGIC POLYPS OR BRONCHIAL ASTHMA – MAY PROGRESS TO SINUSITIS IF UNTREATED • TREATMENT – AVOIDANCE OF ALLERGEN – INTRANASAL CORTICOSTEROID/ ANTIHISTAMINE SPRAYS (FLUTICASONE / AZELASTINE) – ORAL ANTIHISTAMINICS (CETRIZINE/ FEXOFENADINE) – ORAL ANTI LEUKOTRIENE (MONTELEUKAST) • SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS – AVOID USE OF TOPICAL DECONGESTANTS LIKE NASIVION/ OTRIVIN … RHINITIS MEDICAMENTOSA! – LIFELONG TREATMENT MAY BE REQUIRED!
  • 27.
    ACUTE SINUSITIS • PRESENTATION –ACUTE INFLAMMATION OF SINUS MUCOSA DUE TO INFECTION – FEVER, HEADACHE, PURULENT NASAL DISCHARGE, ERYTHEMA AND TENDERNESS OVER AFFECTED SINUSES • TREATMENT – ANTIBIOTICS – ANALGESICS – TOPICAL DECONGESTANTS – ANTIHISTAMINICS – STEAM INHALATION
  • 28.
    EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OF EPISTAXIS •FIRST AID – SIT THE PATIENT UPRIGHT AND PINCH THE NOSE (TROTTER’S METHOD) • IF BLEEDING PERSISTS – FOR POSTERIOR NASAL BLEEDING INFLATE A FOLEY’S CATHETER IN NASOPHARYNX – FOR ANTERIOR NASAL BLEEDING DO ANTERIOR NASAL PACKING WITH RIBBON GAUZE OR GELFOAM STRIPS • IF BLEEDING STOPS SPONTANEOUSLY / MINOR BLEEDING – DECONGESTANT DROPS, ANTIHISTAMINICS, ANTIBIOTICS • IF ELDERLY PATIENT WITH HYPERTENSION – CHECK BLOOD PRESSURE – ELICIT MEDICATION HISTORY – RESTART ANTIHYPERTENSIVES
  • 29.
    REMOVAL OF NASALFOREIGN BODIES • REMOVE UNDER VISION USING AN EUSTACHIAN CATHETER OR JOBSON HORNE PROBE • DO NOT PUSH THE FOREIGN BODY FURTHER INTO THE NASOPHARYNX • CONSIDER SEDATING OR RESTRAINING THE CHILD
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    Common problems ofThroat • Cough • Throat pain – Tonsilitis – Peritonsilar abscess – Pharangitis • Mouth ulcers
  • 32.
    Cough Pharyngitis Antihistaminics Mouth ulcers Also knownas aphthus ulcers. Mouth ulcer gel MultiVit
  • 33.
    ACUTE TONSILLITIS • PRESENTATION –PAINFUL SORE THROAT – FEVER – ODYNOPHAGIA – TONSILLAR SWELLING – LYMPHADENOPATHY • MANAGEMENT – ANTIBIOTICS – ANALGESICS – SALT WATER GARGLES
  • 34.
    PERITONSILLAR ABSCESS • PRESENTATION –VERY PAINFUL SORE THROAT – HIGH FEVER – MARKED ODYNOPHAGIA – INABILITY TO SWALLOW SALIVA – HOT POTATO VOICE – TRISMUS – SWELLING OF SOFT PALATE, ANTERIOR PILLARS – TONSIL MAY OR MAY NOT BE ENLARGED – DEVIATION OF UVULA TO OPPOSITE SIDE – TORTICOLLIS – CERVICAL LYMPHADENOPATHY • MANAGEMENT – I & D – ANTIBIOTICS – ANALGESICS – SALT WATER GARGLES
  • 35.
    CHRONIC TONSILLITIS • PRESENTATION –RECURRENT ATTACKS OF ACUTE TONSILLITIS – ERYTHEMA OF ANTERIOR PILLARS – TONSILS MAY SHOW VARYING DEGREE OF ENLARGEMENT – JUGULODIGASTRIC LYMPHADENOPATHY • MANAGEMENT – TONSILLECTOMY
  • 36.
    FOREIGN BODY OESOPHAGUS •PRESENTATION – TYPICAL HISTORY OF INGESTION – DYSPHAGIA, DROOLING – BEWARE OF HOARSENESS, DYSPNOEA, STRIDOR … THESE MAY INDICATE FOREIGN BODY IN AIRWAY • MANAGEMENT – X RAY NECK, CHEST AP AND LATERAL – ASK FOR TIME OF LAST MEAL, DRINK – KEEP NIL ORALLY IF OPERATIVE INTERVENTION PLANNED – FISH BONES ARE USUALLY RADIOLUCENT, SMALL CHICKEN BONES MAY BE OBSCURED – OESOPHAGOSCOPY IS THE GOLD STANDARD INVESTIGATION – IF THE FB HAS REACHED THE STOMACH, IT WILL USUALLY PASS OUT WITHOUT DIFFICULTY!
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    Important part • Cetrizineor Levocetrizine 5mg tabs • 6 month to 2 yrs – 2.5 mg od • 2 to 6 yrs – 2.5 mg bd • > 6 yrs 5 mg bd • (syr 5mg per 5 ml)
  • 39.
    Augmentin • Amoxycilline withclavulanic acid. • Dose in adults- 625 mg tds or 1 gm bd • Dose in childrens – 20-40 mg/kg/day in 2 divided doses – Syr each 5 ml contains 200mg…so, – ½ of body wt.of baby in ml bd*
  • 40.
    For cough • Adults–syr cough 2TSF tds • Childrens upto wt 20 to 3o kgs – TSF tds • Pediatrics -Syr Tixylix – each 5 ml contains • 1.5 mg promethazine • 1.5 mg pholcodine • ½ of body wt.of baby in ml- tds*
  • 41.
    For Ear Pain •Adults –voveron or combiflam • Pediatrics – Syr Ibugesic(ibuprofen) – Dose 10-15 mg/kg/dose 6 hrly – Each 5 ml contains 100mg,so – ½ of body wt.of baby in ml- tds*
  • 42.
    Fever • PCM – Adults500mg sos or tds – Pediatrics • 15 mg/kg/day in 3 divided dose • Syr each 5 ml contains 125 mg,so… – ½ of body wt.of baby in ml- tds*
  • 43.