Unflavoured infant paracetamol vs hens teeth.

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Posting for traffic, as I’ve already waited 5 days for an answer from gp/pharmacist.

DS 7months is allergic to strawberries/citrus fruits and advised to avoid any similar fruits. He’s fine with banana, apple, peach, pear, prune and apricot so far. He’s got a cold, which he’s generally ok with just snotty and combined with his teeth coming through he gets the odd fever. Calpol is strawberry causes a rash and screaming.. haven’t tried orange (citrus) or cherry flavour yet (he hasnt had a drop of cherry anything so after having a near miss with kiwi I’m not the keenest to go bung it into him)

Anyhoo we’ve tried sugar free same reaction.. is there an unflavoured infant paracetamol syrup in existence? Or a banana/apple/pear one? According to my gp there isn’t but alas they also told me they could only get an sma milk for cmpa but paediatrician got a different version in.. so my faith in them isn’t the highest.

Iirc some medicines have milk products in them so he could be reacting to that? I can remember checking bottles for my nephew.

The pharmacy kids Ibuprofen is banana flavour iirc from when they gave me a huge bottle when I haf an abscess and couldn't swallow.

You could also ask for children's suppositories instead.

Also OP the flavours arent fruit extracts. They're 'natural' flavours which means they're forced combinations of other flavourings to make them taste like what we think Strawberry/banana/orange etc should all taste like.

Peads nurse here. I've only ever heard of children being allergic to the cal poly brand. The cheaper ones have been ok as they are not coloured. You could use a suppository or a solvable. But you'd need to be able to work out the correct amount to give.

Can you not get suppositories? As pp said, very common in mainland Europe and easy and quick to administer. I use it for my DD who spits out Calpol.

I haven't read the full thread but I used to break tablets and crush them and mix them with rice syrup or give suppositories. I am a nurse though.