How Do I Alternate Motrin And Tylenol To Treat An Infant With A Fever?
IGNORE ABOVE POST NEVER GIVE A CHILD ASPIRIN!!!!!!!!!! The first question is how young an infant and did the pediatrician tell you to use them? Babies less than 3 months should never run a fever over without being seen by a physician. 3-6 months shouldn’t be over 101. 6 months and older it’s 103. NEVER try to medicate a baby before without pediatric direction. If your baby is older than 6 months try the motrin first. It’s the best fever reducer and you might find you don’t need to use the tylenol. The key here is to give the baby the least amount of medication that is effective. Wait at least 2 hours and give the tylenol IF NEEDED. give the next doses by the dosing schedule on the bottle (usually 4-6hr) after the original dose. WRITE DOWN what you gave them and when so there are no mixups. You are able to alternate because they do not contain the same active ingredients and will not interact.
the best way i’ve found is start with tylenol and wait an hour and then give motrin. Then when it’s time for more tylenol you can give it or you can wait until the motrin starts to wear off (i think the most often you can give motrin is every 6 hours) and then give more tylenol to cover the time between when the fever starts to come back and you can’t really give the motrin again because it’s too soon. check with the doctor though — i don’t know how easily you want to give so much medication with an infant. it’s generally ok (or even better) for them to just have a low fever because it helps fight the infection. so you really only want to reduce the fever enough so it’s not dangerously high and so that the kid is not uncomfortable. There’s really no reason why the kid can’t just have a low fever at times, and have you not instantly need to treat it so it completely goes away. The fever is a sign that there is something being fought off by your immune system and the fever actually helps to fight it off. The motrin/tylenol alternating thing is also good when the kid is in pain.
I wouldn’t alternate them, when my son had a fever of 103 i gave him tylenol but it didn’t work, then i bought motrin gave it to him the next morning and he got better. Give him the right amount of mortin every six hours.
motrin during the day for his fever while he is awake, and tylenol during the night when he is ready to go to sleep.
We had to do this with my daughter. We gave her Tylenol, then two hours later we gave her some Motrin. 4 hours after her initial dose of Tylenol we were able to give her another dose of Tylenol, and 6 hours after her initial dose of Motrin we were able to give her more of that. But it usually doesn’t take that long, in most cases the first dose of Motrin 2 hours after the first dose of Tylenol will get rid of the fever. Even though this is how we did it with our daughter (on the advice of the ER Dr.), it’s still best to get clear, written instructions from your own Dr. who will know more about your baby and exactly how much he/she should take. Good luck.
Per the instructions your pediatrician gives you. You should call to confirm the correct dosage for your child’s age and weight (weight being most important).
If your child has a fever high enough to warrant alternating both medications, a call to the pediatrician is in order.
its every 4 hours, but only for 24 hours
Call the Nurse Line or your hospital for free for advice. Unless, you absolutely know the person giving the advice and their medical background, I WOULD NOT trust any medical advice about medicine to be given to an infint online. Call the Doctor or Hospital…You can feel you will get a relyable answer you can trust.
I agree with davilmom completly. You should not listen to anything anyone on here says though. You should really call your childs Dr. I am a nurse and know what to give children, but when it comes to my son I still call the Dr first so he knows what’s going on and I can bring my son in if he feels it necessary
I think it’s every 4 hours you can alternate one and then the other.
Call your doctor. There may be 24 hour nurse hotlines that can answer your call. Err on the side of caution- you do not want to give the baby too much. Motrin works the best. Follow the directions. Don’t alternate
fever? baby aspirin. Motrin and tylenol are muscle relaxers. Use baby aspirin. aspirin is a blood thinner. Aspirin will help your infant’s temp come down some. THEN go to the doctor.
If your infant has a fever take it to the doctor asap. Babies can’t tell you what they are feeling and they have different needs than grown-ups.
Don’t give baby anything unless you have the green light from a doctor. You could do more bad than good.