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TIPS on Giving Medicine to Toddler ?

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lovinit · 08/08/2005 07:06

I ama bout to travel on a long haul and plan to give Phenergan to my 2 year old to help her sleep ... Any tips on how to admister this on the plane without causing a scene ???!!!

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mumtosomeone · 08/08/2005 07:09

wouldnt it be best to give before you get on?
mine take medicine fine so cant really help!

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Bethron · 08/08/2005 07:09

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angelp · 08/08/2005 07:23

We use a springe and bribery afterwards like a sweet or chocolate. And if worst comes to worst then just prise open mouth and squirt!

Have read on here that you should try phenergan first as it sends some kids hyper rather than knock them out! Plus I think as mumtosomeone said you should do it before get on plane to give time to work

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angelp · 08/08/2005 07:23

syringe that is!

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mumtosomeone · 08/08/2005 07:33

enjoy your flight!!

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treacletart · 08/08/2005 08:38

A syringe and a hand puppet do the trick for us

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mckenzie · 08/08/2005 12:14

what about giving medicine to a 5 month old?(sorry to hyjack your thread lovinit)
We are really struggling and have tried spoon, syringe and teat!

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mckenzie · 09/08/2005 11:07

bump

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Littlefish · 09/08/2005 14:57

I'm sure I've seen a sort of dummy which you can pre-fill with medecine and then squirt once it is in your child's mouth. It might have been in the PHP catalogue (perfectly happy people) which is also available on-line.

We tried the two-man-tag team approach of dh with syringe and me with dummy to shove in so that dd couldn't spit out the medicine. It worked well for us.

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mckenzie · 09/08/2005 19:38

thanks littlefish. will give your suggestion a try tomorrow.

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lapsedrunner · 09/08/2005 19:53

Use the syringe they provide in the infant Neurofen bottle, it works a treat.

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mckenzie · 09/08/2005 21:40

DD struggles as soon as she sees the medicine bottle, the spoon, the syringe or even Dh and I together as I think she's cottoned on to the fact that both of us near her means medicine or eye drops. Bless her.

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basketcase · 09/08/2005 21:55

as ours will eat fromage frais till the cows come home and regardless of how they are feeling, we always hide meds (usually calpol) in the top half of a little pot of fromage frais. Never had any trouble with this method and avoids that extra stickiness of spat out calopl

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