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 little ...
ITHACA, N.Y., Jan. 7 (UPI) -- Parents who use kitchen spoons to measure liquid medicine for a child may over or under medicate, New York researchers found. Study leader Dr. Brian Wansink-- director of ...
Parents are being warned not to give their children medicine using an ordinary teaspoon because of the risk of overdose. A study found teaspoons vary from a capacity of 2.5ml to 7.3ml, meaning ...