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Before prescribing, the pediatrician typically considers recommended dosing guidelines and issues related to safety. Rarely does (s)he consider the impact of normal growth and development on drug disposition and by extension drug action. This paper reviews how the processes of absorption, distribution, metabolism and elimination differ between healthy children and adults and briefly discusses considerations for medication prescribing in children where these processes are altered secondary to comorbidities.
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