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Saturday, January 9, 2010

Beware Kitchen Spoons

Parents who use kitchen spoons to measure medicine risk poisoning their kids.

It sounds like a commonsense statement, but researchers at Cornell University found that people who are confident about measuring the right amount of cold or cough syrup often get it wrong. In a test of 195 people, the study participants poured, on average, 12 percent too much medicine. Those who under-poured missed the mark by 8 percent on average. The findings are published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

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