The Wall Street Journal’s health blog is reporting that one in 10 hospitalized kids has a bad reaction to a drug – and more than 20 percent of these reactions are preventable. The worrisome news comes from a report in this month’s Pediatrics journal, which prompted The Joint Commission, the organization that certifies hospitals, to send out an alert advising health care practitioners on how to prevent such errors.
Most medications are formulated for adults, so the problem enters the picture when the hospital staff has to perform calculations to reformulate the dosage for your child. Emergency departments, the study says, are particularly risk-prone environments.
So, what can you do?
safeBABY 
