Sucrose concentration and pH in liquid oral pediatric medicines of long-term use for children Concentración de sacarosa y pH en medicamentos líquidos pediátricos para uso a largo plazo por vía oral

• Main Authors: Isabela Albuquerque Passos, Fábio Correia Sampaio, Cosme Rafael Martínez, Cláudia Helena Soares de Morais Freitas
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish; Portuguese
• Published: Pan American Health Organization 2010
• Subjects: Sacarosa; concentración de iones hidrógeno; niño; preescolar; caries dental; erosión de los dientes; Brasil; Sucrose; hydrogen-ion concentration; child; preschool; dental caries; tooth erosion; Brazil; Medicine; R; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Los Dientes
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/3cdf2e8a8fdf4ff29072c2a99e493429

OBJECTIVES: To determine the pH and sucrose concentrations (SC) of pediatric liquid drugs of long-term use by children in order to evaluate the potential risk for dental caries and dental erosion. METHODS: After assessing the pH, we analyzed 71 aqueous medicine samples for sucrose by the Lane-Eynon...