How the FARK do you get penicillin down their necks??

[Monkeytrousers]

DS (2.5) just won?t have it anyway, he knows when I try to hide it in food and holding him down and syringing it into him 4 times a day must be against the Geneva Convention FFS!

He?s had one ? the first one. He had a previous one for two days before refusing anymore. What are you supposed to do?? Why don?t they make it to look and taste exactly like Calpol ? he likes that! Agghhh!

[TheBlonde]

Pin him down
After 3 days my 2 year old became compliant

good luck

[myermay]

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[kittypants]

use a syringe instead of spoon.

[theheadgirl]

I wrap my DD in a towel, sit her on my knee, with her feet trapped between my legs, and force feed her with a syringe! Geneva convention - sue me! They have to learn if Mum says you're having medicine, then you're having it!

[theheadgirl]

Thats only with DD3 btw who is developmentally like a 2yo. The older two DD (9 and 11) I offer monetary bribes!

[littlemissbossy]

Mix it with some calpol??
I'm no doctor so don't sue me if doesn't work

[BuffysMum]

get one dosage in at night go in get it down whilst they are half asleep! Bribery with chocolate/sweets

[chacha3]

i it in a little bit of orange juice so disgises the taste

[Laura032004]

Had a similar problem with DS1 (2y 11m) and I just insisted that he take it. He was resistant initially, and my mum tried to force him to take it, but I wouldn't force him. Just explained that he had to have it to make him better. He didn't like it, and didn't want to take it, but eventually did. It took longer than forcing him, but the rest of the week went fine. Possibly an age thing though, as I'm not sure this approach would have worked a few months earlier?

[Bugsy2]

Used to have a nightmare with this, as despite the torturous lengths I'd go to (towel wrapping & squirting the stuff with a syringe), poor DS would just regurgitate the stuff.
So, my lovely GP now prescribes antibiotics with a non-banana flavour or even in tablets that I can crush & mix with fromage frais, icecream etc & goes completely un-noticed.

[chloesmumtoo]

HOW ARE YOU GETTING ON LOL. BROUGHT BACK A FEW MEMORIES WITH MY DD! TRIED LOTS AND FAILED SO I STRONGLY BELIEVE IN POPPING BACK TO THE DR AND EXPLAINING! REMEMBER FORCING HER, HOLDING HER NOSE TO NO AVAIL SHE WAS VERY STRONG WILLED. FELT V GUILTY AND DD WAS V POORLY SO HAD HAD ENOUGH OF EVERYTHING. THIS WAS WITH ANTIBIOTICS THOUGH BUT THE DR WAS GOOD AND HELPED BY CHANGING HER ONTO AN ADULTS MED WHICH I ONLY HAD TO GIVE HALF A SOONFULL INSTEAD OF A WHOLE. SOUNDS NOT A LOT DIFFERENT BUT IT WAS HALF THE STRESS! SHE THEN STARTED TO TAKE IT BY PRETENDING IT WAS LIPSTICK IN THE SYRINGE. NOT THAT YOU CAN DO THAT WITH DS!!!!!!!!!!

[Monkeytrousers]

I have bought some strawberry syrup to add to it. He is a little wary but I think it just might work....

[Monkeytrousers]

Stawberry syrip didn't work. It's all over the rug! He's onto me big time.

I managed to get some in him via a pot of petits filous but he even cottoned on to that. And it says to give on an empty stomach! How is this possible?? It's going in everything from now on - hopefully by the time it's all gone he should have ingested enough to do the job.

Spoke to a pharmacists and she said she was from australia and they have strawberry delicious ones there. Why not here FGS! He's getting another cold now.

[Bubbaloo]

Try holding the end of his nose-he'll have to swallow it then.Cruel but it works.

[Monkeytrousers]

He had it in his shreddies this morning. a compromise had to be found and the empty stomach thing had to be it!