Ezy Dose medicine droppers, spoons and cups

Not every child opens for a syringe, and this page is what to reach for next. The spoon-dropper is the clever one: it fills through its stem like a dropper, so the dose is drawn to a millilitre mark, and it feeds like a spoon, so a toddler who opens for a spoon gets a measured dose from it. The calibrated medicine spoon is a spoon with a hollow graduated handle for the same reason, and the plain droppers are for the fractions of a millilitre that go to an infant or into an ear or an eye.

The cups are the adult end of the shelf: ten 1 oz cups with millilitre and teaspoon marks for a cough syrup or a laxative, cheap enough to throw away and clear enough to read at eye level. What ties the page together is the unit. The American Academy of Pediatrics asks parents never to measure medicine with a household spoon, and the CDC says the same; a flatware teaspoon can hold anything from 2.5 to 10 mL. Everything here has a line where the dose stops.