To be pissed off at the flavour of baby medicine?!

[anametouse]

Why is it so strongly fucking flavoured?!! DS won't take infacol or gripe water because they both taste so bloody strong. Why?? He's only used to Breast milk, why flavour medication of something he has no experience of??

So bloody angry

I breastfed DS and he had Infacol before 6 months with no problems. I think you've just been unlucky in your DS having a strong dislike of it. Not helpful I know but grit your teeth and he'll grow out of it all in good time. I was never sure it actually made much difference TBH, it seemed more like time passed and things changed.

The Australians have flavours sorted. You can get a cherry vanilla paracetamol over there. I'd have brought a stash back if I could.

Trains baby calpol is 120mg/5ml so an adult dose of 1000mg (usually 2x500mg tablets) would be 1000/120( = approximately 9) x5 = 40ml bleurgh

six plus is 240mg/5ml so 20ml approx - less bleurgh

Bleugh to 40ml of calpol. My teeth are humming just thinking about it

No flavored medicine here and getting that into.kids is a pain in the arse. So much so I buy as much Calpol as I can when in the UK.

DS2 won't take any medications. So we do it the French way - up the bottom! No taste issues that way!

I don't think there is much point to being so angry so yabu for that. I know it is frustrating if you need or want them to take something.

Taste may well not even be the reason it's not being taken. It could be much more simply that it isn't warm milk coming out of a squishy nipple. Babies used to breast milk are actually usually used to a much wider range of flavours though, as the taste of breastmilk is influenced by the mother's diet. You can try painting a bit of infacol on your nipples before a feed to get them used to the taste. Or express some milk and mix gripe water with it.

Will he take a bottle? You can put it in milk.

I used to throw it as far as I could in the back of the throat and jiggle it down.

My GP had to give me baby antibiotics after I had throat surgery and it tasted exactly like pineapple sherbert. I don't understand why, if we have the capacity to make medicine taste like pineapple sherbert, all medicines don't taste like pineapple sherbert?

There are only about six adult doses of paracetamol in a bottle of calpol. (That's the six plus one, too) Even if you drank it all in one go you wouldn't exceed the maximum daily amount.

I take calpol because I can't swallow tablets at the best of times and when I'm ill it's even worse.

Thanks so much to those with advice and tips.

FWIW he's just taken infant Gavison - from GP- no problem (not flavoured)

On a different tangent, my Mum bought some ibuprofen tablets that taste really sweet- I said that's dangerous, what if a kid finds one and thinks it's a sweetie? I've bought tablets that were round and bright pink too. So the bad taste of medicine is probably to stop kids eating them and thinking they're sweets!

Syringe it in to the back of the cheek. They swallow it by reflex and will hardly taste it.
I wish they dd make it taste foul tbh. You hear of so many toddlers getting hold of bottles of Calpol and chugging them. The same with pink sugar coated paracetamol that look like smarties. I don't remember ever being tempted to munch on the mattress thick, powdery, acrid paracetamol you used to get in my day!

Use a spoon and press the spoon on their tongue for a second - they have to swallow - try it! Don't even taste it because the spoon covers their taste buds

Ibuprofen only tastes sweet on the surface. If you suck it the coating dissolves and it tastes bitter. Or if you bite it, it's also bitter. But you should of course keep medicines away from small children anyway.