Neglectful Parenting: A Child Overdosed with Phenergan Syrup
Keywords:
Parenting, Phenergan syrup, Intellectual disability, PGEEAbstract
Misuse of Over the Counter (OTC) medication is a common issue however, the long term consequences of this unchecked act are less stressed particularly in child care. The current case is of an eight years old boy studying in a Special Education School; referred for the Clinical assessment and intervention of academic and behavioral problems. The adaptive behavior assessment revealed that the child had moderate form of intellectual disability. It was found in anecdotal records that child had consumed heavy quantity of syrup Phenergan in his infant years. The focus of brief therapeutic intervention was to enhance his current adaptive behavior functioning. Multiple stakeholders including parents, physician pharmacist should drift their attention towards this very issue.
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Submission of a manuscript to the journal implies that all authors have read and agreed to the content of the undertaking form or the Terms and Conditions.
When an article is accepted for publication, the author(s) retain the copyright and are required to grant the publisher the right of first publication and other non-exclusive publishing rights to JLUMHS.
Articles published in the Journal of Liaquat University of Medical & health sciences are open access articles under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial - Share Alike 4.0 License. This license permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium; provided the original work is properly cited and initial publication in this journal. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access. In addition to that users are allowed to remix, tweak and build upon the work non-commercially as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. Or, in certain cases it can be stated that all articles and content there in are published under creative commons license unless stated otherwise.