Re: Sam - First Episode with Prednisone

[Guest guest]

,

We have been giving our son steroids for more than 2 years now, and we've found

what

seems to be the ideal way to give him the steroids. I'm sure it will vary in

every case but you

might try it.

When our son starts having fever we only give him motrin every 6 hours and if

the fever goes

up too much betwen the 6 hrs we give him tempra or tylenol. This is for the

first day. We do

this until the morning of the next day, at which point if he still has fever we

give him 1 dose

of 5 ml and that takes care of the fevers. We rarely have to give him 2 doses,

i'd say 95% of

the time we give him only one dose.

Good luck