Building Your Newborn’s First Aid Kit with Love
Building Your Newborn’s First Aid Kit with Love
When you become a parent, you quickly realise that preparation is key – whether it’s scheduling life around nap times, keeping nappies and wet wipes fully stocked, or having the right supplies ready to care for your little one when pain and fever strikes. Adding Panado® to your baby’s first aid kit gives you peace of mind, knowing gentle relief is on hand when it’s needed most.
Baby First Aid Kit Essentials
A Digital Thermometer
Every first aid kit needs a digital thermometer. Most babies have a normal body temperature ranging from 36.5 °C to 38 °C.1a A fever occurs when their temperature goes above 38 °C.1b Fever in babies can be scary, so having a reliable way to check your tiny tot's temperature is absolutely essential.
A Nasal Aspirator
Since babies under six months old rely almost entirely on their noses to breathe, even a little congestion can make feeding and sleeping a challenge. While colds and infections can worsen congestion, your baby might have a stuffy nose even when they aren’t sick.2a Paired with saline nasal drops, a nasal aspirator gently clears stuffy noses, so your baby can breathe easy.2b
Nail Clippers
For everyday hygiene, include baby-safe nail clippers. Tiny nails grow faster than you’d think (at about 0.1 mm per day)3 and can be surprisingly sharp! Regular trimming helps prevent accidental scratches.
Gauze, Bandages, And Antiseptic Cream
As your baby grows and begins exploring the world (and bumping into it), minor cuts and scrapes are bound to happen. Stock your kit with sterile gauze, hypoallergenic adhesive bandages, and mild antiseptic cream to clean and protect small wounds.
Teething Gels and Powders
Teething typically starts around six months old4a, and can cause swollen gums, excessive drooling, a mild fever, irritability, crying, and disrupted sleep4b. Some teething gels can help numb sore gums4c.
Panado®: Power To Fight Their Pain
Colic is most common during the first six weeks of life and affects up to one in four newborns5a. The good news is it typically resolves on its own by the time a baby is three to four months old5b.
A baby’s immune system is still developing, which means they’re more likely to pick up infections6.
An essential item for your first aid kit would be paracetamol. Panado® soothes pain and fever and is fast-acting7, helping your baby bounce back to their happy, bubbly selves.
Panado® peppermint flavoured syrup8 - because it’s “mint to be” - is suitable from birth and is tartrazine, alcohol and sugar free. Panado®’s paracetamol-based infant drops9 are suitable for babies from the age of 3 months. The calibrated dropper ensures that parents provide the correct amount of medication, based on the weight and age of their child.
Panado®’s paediatric range also includes strawberry flavoured syrup10 which is as “berry nice” as it sounds.
Always administer using a medicine measure or a syringe. Do not exceed the recommended dose. Dosage details can be found at https://panado.co.za/dosage-calculator/ and are calculated according to your child's age and weight.
From those early days of snuggles and butterfly kisses, to your baby’s first tooth and wobbly steps, parents trust11 Panado® for fast7 pain relief when needed most. After all, when your little one feels better, the whole world feels brighter.
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Panado® products are available at Baby City, Pick n Pay, Checkers, including Hypers, Shoprite, Clicks, Dis-Chem, and Independent Pharmacies. For more information, visit https://panado.co.za/ and join the conversations on Facebook.
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2. Pampers. All About Baby and Newborn Nasal Congestion. Available from: https://www.pampers.co.uk/baby/development/article/baby-congestion. Last accessed January 2025.
3. Healthychildren.org. Nailing It: How to Trim Your Baby’s Fingernails. Available from: https://www.healthychildren.org/English/ages-stages/baby/bathing-skin-care/Pages/Nails-Nails-Everywhere.aspx. Last accessed January 2025.
4. NCT. Teething in babies and young children. Available from: https://www.nct.org.uk/information/baby-toddler/caring-for-your-baby-or-toddler/teething-babies-and-young-children. Last accessed January 2025.
5. Johns Hopkins Medicine. Colic. Available from: https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/colic. Last accessed January 2025.
6. The Lullaby Trust. Advice on infection in babies. Available from: https://www.lullabytrust.org.uk/safer-sleep-advice/infection-and-illness/how-to-keep-babies-safe-from-infection/. Last accessed January 2025.
7. Wilcock A, Twycross R. Therapeutic reviews: Acetaminophen (Paracetamol). Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 2013;46(5):747-755.
8. Panado® Paediatric Syrup Alcohol and Sugar-Free approved professional information, May 2022.
9. Panado® Infant Drops approved professional information, August 1990.
10. Panado® Paediatric Strawberry Syrup approved professional information, March 2002.
11. Circana, MT, Oct 2024 MAT.
For full prescribing information refer to the Professional Information approved by SAHPRA. Adcock Ingram Limited. Co. Reg. No. 1949/034385/06. Private Bag X69, Bryanston, 2021, South Africa. Customer Care: 0860 ADCOCK / 232625. www.adcock.com. 14.01.20251000000898. January 2025
