Tips of the Trade: Giving your Child Medications Part II:
Ear, nose or eye infections are generally treated with external drops. It is always easier to administer drops to a baby or young child if you lay him on a flat surface before you begin and enlist the help of another adult or an older child to keep him still and hold his head steady. An older child will probably be more co-operative and you will only need to ask him to tilt his head back or to the side, while you put the drops in.
Ear drops
1. Warm the drops to body temperature (hold the bottle in your hands for a few minutes or under a stream of warm, not hot, tap water) as cold drops can cause dizziness and nausea






