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[ohdeaeyme]

my 7 month old has been prescribed a 5 day course. on the leaflet it says dissolve in water but he wont take water, can i get away with dissolving in his milk instead?

I would dissolve in a tiny amount of juice (less than 5ml) and give via syringe

I'd try what Sirzy said.

I'm not sure if dissolving it in milk might do something to the steroids but when DD was once in hospital with a bad chest the nurse mixed her steroids with some Ribena.

Make the steroids up first and then add it to the Ribena if that makes sense.

Hope your DS is feeling better soon

If you can manage to dissolve in a tiny amount of water (about 5ml), then use one of those Calpol syringes to squirt it in, that should do the trick.

Soluble steroids taste bitter and my daughter struggled to swallow them when her GP dissolved them in half a cup of water. The nurses at the hospital gave us the same tablets dissolved in a tiny amount of water and I could do my ninja squirt into the side of her mouth, then a drink of juice to take away the taste.

Also, if you haven't been warned, they can make your child very hyper! That was a fun weekend

As previous posters have said, the best way is to dissolve them in a very small volume of water and quickly squirt them into the mouth using a syringe followed by a drink of something nice tasting. You could dissolve them in water and then mix them with juice but only if you're sure she'll drink it all immediately.

Whenever my ds had soluble steroids I put them in about 5ml of water and drew it up in the calpol syringe. He took it fine, if he hadn't I probably would have tried it in some juice, Or phoned the pharmacy to see if I could put it in milk

thank you did the syringe trick. dont think he was too impressed but they are in which is all that matters!

We failed completely even with the syringe with water with then 8 month dd2 (who oddly enough refused any calpol or similar medicine) but put in a tiny bit of juice just to colour it and did the ninja syringe and it worked

Glad you got them in! They really taste pretty rank, so do whatever you need to. I would give my daughter a small treat afterwards like chocolate buttons as she had them for five days and dreaded every dose.