To ask if A&E is overreacting.

Honestly you are not helping this. Force feeding a child things like calpol which she did not need is going to have caused resistance like you’re describing. Adding in your evidenced and obvious panic and the poor love is probably terrified.

She isn’t showing any signs at this stage of serious illness, most of the posts are you in a notable heightened state.

Step 1 needs to be you calming down or removing yourself and letting someone else take over.

Step 2 needs to be sitting with her doing something relaxing. For hours if need be. And tiny amounts at a time. I suggest the 1ml syringes where you’re putting in a small amount and then squeeze it in (let her if she will) followed by something to hide the taste. It takes time. And calm effort.

Step 3. If the above doesn’t work contact 111. They can advise. She might need to be admitted for IV.

Munchausens is not health anxiety. Christ.

Will she drink chocolate milk. You could try chocolate slim fast disguised in a different bottle or just in a glass. It sounds daft but it's actislly packed the the nutrition she's missing out on at the mo

As above-.wrap her in a bath towel, with her srms by her side and put her on your lap, hold her tight and put the syringe in her mouth, squirt and hold her nose. Had to do this with my daughter then aged 4 who had strep throat. Only had to do.it once, she took it herself the other times because I said if she didn't I have to do it like that again. Gave her a lolly after.

As brutal as this sounds, to get my kids to take oral meds when younger and refusing, I’d lay them on my lap. Arms tucked under mine like a one armed hug, lay them back, tickle them to open their mouth if they weren’t opening it and squirt the medicine into the back side of their mouth. Just make sure you have everything ready before you do it, ie meds in the syringe.

Granted it’s not nice, but it gets it into them.

I think you need to get some help for your health anxiety. This thread is really OTT.

The temperature is the body's way of killing the infection/virus. It's a good thing.

I think it was amoxicillin my 3 year old DS said genuinely tastes nice as long as it was the sugary one. It’s yellow and very sweet. Could you ask for that one?

Strep throat is the only time I’ve been in a&e with him, the temperature spikes were quite scary.

You need to get the meds into her OP.
Even if it means forcing it in as a very last resort. Yes this will be controversial but at the end of the day your DD doesn't have capacity to understand the risks of not taking the medication.
My dad had to hold my autistic brother down at around the same age to have a general anaesthetic. Broke my dad's heart and my brother still remembers it. But at the end of the day your the adult and the person responsible. Septic tonsillitis can be very dangerous. I'm sorry your in this situation.

You can absolutely have tablets instead of suspension, could put a request in tomorrow to change over. It's just typical to give suspension at 5 because normally easier to give then tablets but if yours would get on better with tablets then ask them to switch/give tablets in future.

With penV typically you can either have it as 2 or 4 separate doses. They'll still have the same amount over the course of 24hrs, but essentially less faff if you only have to give it twice.

On the taste of the medicine - did you make sure you got the sugary one? My son will take that happily but one time the pharmacy gave me a sugar free version and he outright refused. Had to go get a new prescription.

One of my kids refuses medicine and we had a very similar situation a couple years back. We ended up having a syringe with the medicine in, squirting a teeny bit in their mouth and getting them to swallow and immediately chase it down with a sip of coke through a straw and then repeat until the syringe was empty. Absolute utter faff but has worked ever since.

My son is the same with antibiotics. Nothing works if he can taste. And if you try force he spits out.
I think people who haven't experienced resistance don't always understand.

Mine won't take Calpol either. Luckily he has never been seriously ill.

Have you tried in a chocolate mousse? It was the only thing my DC would take it in.

Penicillin makes me throw up unless I eat something with it. My doctor said ignore the empty stomach and just eat something small before taking, it’s only recommended an empty stomach so it absorbs quicker. On that note, if it means getting them into her I would continue to mix with the Diet Coke, it doesn’t mean they won’t work, just that they won’t be absorbed as quickly, and if she had a drink straight after taking them it would be no different in the stomach!

Her tongue looks like scarlet fever to me. I have just had it myself and I felt rotten. I'd be giving her calpol (Not in uk, so assuming it's paracetamol) and ibuprofen together - ensuring that this is with or after food, as it's not good on an empty stomach. Also ensure that you don't go over the dosage or under the time limits for either drug.

@CoconutSky

DS is neurodiverse + hated medicine.

I tried favourite thing to watch on YouTube/iPhone as a distraction. Favourite food - he likes yogurt - but you could also try apple puree, chocolate sauce.
One pot normal, one pot mixed with medicine.

Start with normal pot, and then after two spoons do a medicine pot spoon. Go back to normal pot. Then keep switching with medicine pot/normal pot.

No mention of ‘you need to take medicine’.