AIBU to ask for help with 11 year old having to learn to take tablets?

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Newyearnewmewoooop · 10/04/2025 21:16

DD been prescribed sertraline for extreme anxiety. She just can’t get the hang of taking tablets and is having to chew them 🥴

We have practiced with tic tacs, but no joy. Tried putting in Nutella, hiding in grapes, no success

Does anyone have any advice 🙏

Im going to ask for it to be prescribed in liquid form next prescription, but that’s 3 weeks away

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JoshLymanSwagger · 10/04/2025 21:22

I've always struggled with tablets.
I was advised by a nurse to take them with milk, because it's "thicker" iyswim, than water/squash.
I wouldn't take them with anything fizzy. Sometime carbonated drinks react with the tablet and it's really unpleasant.
Fingers crossed that with a little practice she'll be fine.

HaddyAbrams · 10/04/2025 21:22

Can they be chewed/crushed? I know some tablets say they can't. My mum used to crush paracetamol on a teaspoon then cover it in sugar so we could swallow it. Or try taking it with yogurt as its thicker and makes things easier to swallow.

WompWompBoom · 10/04/2025 21:20

Take a big swig of fizzy pop/squash, and tip your head back so the pop is held in your mouth, open mouth, drop tablet in and immediately gulp. I'm rubbish at tablets and still take them this way in my 40s.

Clairey1986 · 10/04/2025 21:19

Put on tongue, small sip and either tip head back or weirdly what works is put your chin to your chest and you swallow it 🤷‍♀️

I can sympathise, all 3 of my kids need to take thyroxine and my eldest is ND and it took an hour every morning for the first week. Takes it no bother now though.

MellowPinkDeer · 10/04/2025 21:17

Are they hard like solid ones or ones that are like plastic on the outside?

Octavia64 · 10/04/2025 21:17

Put them in slices of banana

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