Questions parents ask us.

No. LittleDoses is an educational tool that organizes the same information found on product labels and in pediatric dosing references, and applies it to your child's weight. It does not diagnose, prescribe, or replace your pediatrician. When the safe answer is "ask your doctor," the app tells you that instead of giving you a number.

Common over-the-counter children's medicines: acetaminophen (Tylenol and generics) and ibuprofen (Motrin, Advil and generics) in every common liquid, chewable, and tablet form, plus common children's allergy, cough, and cold products, each with the age limits that apply. It does not calculate doses for prescription medicines — for those, it keeps the prescribed dose on schedule and tracks what was given.

Children's doses are based on weight because a small two-year-old and a large two-year-old can need meaningfully different amounts. Age-based charts on packaging are a compromise for people who do not know the child's weight. If you do, weight is more accurate, and it is what a pediatrician uses.

It asks. Children's liquid medicines come in more than one strength, and the same volume of a different strength is a different dose. You pick the concentration printed on your bottle (for example, 160 mg per 5 mL), and the app calculates from that. It also warns if the amount you enter does not look right for that product.

Birth through the teen years. Many medicines have minimum ages — ibuprofen is not for infants under 6 months, and most cough and cold products are not recommended for young children — and the app enforces those limits rather than leaving them to memory. Fever in a baby under 3 months always warrants a call to your pediatrician.

Yes. You can keep a profile for each child, and share the household with other caregivers so everyone sees the same dose log and schedule on their own phone.

LittleDoses gives medicine-specific, plain-language guidance for both situations — when it is reasonable to repeat a dose, when to skip it, and when to call. The rules are written by pediatricians and depend on the medicine and how long ago it was given.

Practicing pediatricians. Every dosing range, minimum age, spacing interval, and daily maximum is sourced to current U.S. product labeling and pediatric guidelines, recorded with its citation, and reviewed before release. The safety logic is also tested automatically every time the app changes.

Yes. This is one of the most common causes of accidental overdose at home: a combination cold medicine plus plain acetaminophen, for example. LittleDoses tracks the 24-hour total by ingredient, so a dose from any product counts toward the same ceiling.

Use it for the routine questions it is designed for — how much, how often, how to give it, and what was already given. Call your pediatrician for anything about diagnosis, a child who seems very ill, a possible dosing error, a reaction, or any situation where you are unsure. If you think your child has taken too much of a medicine, call Poison Control at 1-800-222-1222 or 911.

Your child's profile, weights, and dose log are stored so they can sync across your household's devices. We do not sell personal data, and you can delete your account and its data from within the app. The full details are in our Privacy Policy.

The core safety features — dose calculation with its checks, and logging — are free. Some convenience features will be offered as an optional subscription. Nothing that keeps a child safe will ever sit behind a paywall.

LittleDoses is in final pre-launch review and will launch on the App Store for iPhone. Email contact@klaricare.co to be notified.

KlariCare LLC is a Texas limited liability company founded in 2026 by Ahmad Qawasmi, MD, a board-certified pediatrician. We build pediatric medication safety software; LittleDoses is our first product. More on the About page.

Email contact@klaricare.co. We typically reply within two business days. We cannot give medical advice by email.