7. We need to know what medicines work in children and if they are safe.
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- Category: 8 - 12
- Created: 03 March 2012
Without clinical trials, we cannot know the best way to give medicines to children as:
• Children often have different medical problems to adults
• Children's bodies are different to adults. They have smaller lungs (used to breathe in and out), less muscle around their bones, faster heart beats and they are constantly growing!
• These differences all have an effect on how medicines work