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Hi!
My DD (23months) used to be excellent at taking medicines (by medicines i mean panadol/nurofen/dimetapp). She was used to it i spose, since she had reflux as a baby and had to have zantac several times a day.
Anyway, now she is TERRIBLE at it!
She screams and spits it all back out and its a nightmare! She gets herself so worked up, she almost makes herself sick.
Please Help!
Is there a trick i am missing? My mum said she used to have to hold me down and block my nose so i had to swallow. Sounds terrible, and she said it was, but that was the only way she could get me to take medicine.
How do you give your kids medicine??
dd used to be very good at taking it... but now at 23months... wont have a bar of it... ive putting it in her bottle or drink or even in food but she knows...
in the end i had to hold her down and blow in her face so she would swallow... its a hassle and tiring and awful but it works...
i also make sure i have a drink or food handy afterwards...
dont think theres any trick to it... or is there is im missing it too!!!
~BEXTER~
24-02-2010, 19:38
Keiara has always been good at taking medicine, I just use lots of praise and she just takes it, sorry
Bell & Bug
24-02-2010, 19:43
Stick your finger in her mouth, not too far, just so she can't close her jaws/mouth when you put the medicine in her mouth, this will give her no option but to swallow.
Beware though, she might bite.
My kids both love all the normal medicines (panadol, nurofen etc), are they weird or something lol? They'd have it every night as a treat if I'd let them!
Ok thanks babydesigner, ill try that next time! :)
I cheat, I put it straight into her Jejenostomy tube, One advantage of havng a tube fed child lol
Haha mikis mum! Thats a good way of thinking! :)
BitterSweet
24-02-2010, 20:27
My first 2 have no problems with taking medicine the youngest is a nightmare to give it to so I hide it in juice and give it to her and she just thinks she is getting a drink of juice
TripleTime
24-02-2010, 20:29
Back in the days of tube feeding, i put it down the tube.
Now, its in the mouth but on the out side of the gums & at the back of their mouth.
They dont tend to spit anything.
2girls&1angelboy
24-02-2010, 20:30
pretty much the same as the others here lay her back tilted more than laying down squirt it in and keep her there she screms but whatever it takes too get her to get it down they soon orget or even i she will take an icypole to make her tounge kinda numb then give it to her then if u give it to her again afterwards
Ok so next time i will try....
giving it to her in some juice or
putting my finger in her mouth so she cant close her mouth and spit it out or
putting the syringe in the very side of her mouth
*thumbsup!*
Thanks girls :)
NonnyMouse
24-02-2010, 20:47
DS is only little so hasn't yet got to the stage of spitting it out, but for now we treat homeopathically and I just pop the pillule in his mouth, or let him suck on the syringe to get the medicine out.
With DD I had to use bribery... we counted one, two, three... gulp it down, and straight away had a "chaser" of her favourite (and usually not allowed) drink of raspberry juice.
samsmyboy
24-02-2010, 21:11
When DS started refusing medication, we changed to the non flavoured one and convinced him it was magic water. DH drank a little and did something 'really amazing'. DS then started to followed suit. Got to the point he would pretend to have a cough just to try and get magic water!!
Seacretsquirrel
24-02-2010, 21:11
ep with DD it is sometimes bribery (a marshmellow). She is fine with nurofen (orange flavour) but anything else she hates, she actually vomited when I tried to give her panadol (she was quite sick and hospital reccomended piggybacking nurofen and panadol and she vomited the whole lot up so back to square one and just the nurofen) she wasn't a big fan of anything cherry or peach flavoured as a tiny bub either she'd spit it out I did manage to get her to start sucking on my finger then slide the siringe down beside it and squirt.
DS will happily take nurofen/panadol and antibiotics so far......
merefreebirther
24-02-2010, 22:48
Maybe she is telling you she doesn't want pharmaceuticals! There are other ways - the brauer range with a dropper that my children will take if needed - although they have only ever had medications once or twice each....
I tend to let them ride out their illnesses and fevers.
Maybe she is telling you she doesn't want pharmaceuticals! There are other ways - the brauer range with a dropper that my children will take if needed - although they have only ever had medications once or twice each....
I tend to let them ride out their illnesses and fevers.
Thats really nice but some mums dont have the luzury of healthy kids, some have the need for pharmaceuticals
Myztiks#1Fan
24-02-2010, 23:05
i think coop was stubborn about that age. in the end, i would give it to him on a spoon. now he will take it anyway i give it to him. usually i an just fill up the syringe for him and he will take it like that but sometimes he prefers it on a spoon. he always seems to ask for more as well so i have a cleaned out bottle sitting in the fridge with some water in it :laughing:
NonnyMouse
24-02-2010, 23:10
Thats really nice but some mums dont have the luzury of healthy kids, some have the need for pharmaceuticals
True, but for drugs like panadol and neurofen (the most commonly administered meds for children) the non-pharmaceutical alternatives are a great option. DS has had an ear infection in both ears, a nasty dose of tonsillitis, and a fair amount of teething pain and we've still never had to resort to panadol.
True, but for drugs like panadol and neurofen (the most commonly administered meds for children) the non-pharmaceutical alternatives are a great option. DS has had an ear infection in both ears, a nasty dose of tonsillitis, and a fair amount of teething pain and we've still never had to resort to panadol.
yer realse that but like said we dont all have that luxury, Some kids cant have them sort of medications, I know DD and many of her lil friends cant as they can interact with there other medications or have stuff in them thay cant have.
Im not argueing that natrual things are not good completely agree that they are just saying that its not always an option.
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