How do I get my child to take this evil stuff?!

[Littlebearstrousers]

Flucloxacillin Awful stuff

Any tried and tested tips please? I'm desperate it's vile stuff and DD(5) is not having any of it. Tried chocolate buttons, bribes, having a nice drink handy to drink straight after. Not happening.

Have you tried childrens yoghurt. I used to syringe a tiny bit in per mouth full which seemed to make it palitable

It is vile.
I mix it in a small drink of concentrated squash like Ribena. Say 30mls or so.

With my youngest son when he was about 3, I tried all the standard things like bribery, in a drink, in a yoghurt etc... the only thing that worked was mixing it with nutella and putting it on toast. He had that I think 2x a day for 5 days!

We mixed dd's with Um bongo - told her of she drank her special juice and didn't have to have her medicine. Its awful stuff

Had the same issue last week. Very strong dose of ribena to mix and unfortunately some mild threatening as well. It is the most disgusting thing of all time.

Studies show only a few percent of under 6s prescribed this complete the course, and yet on we go!

I had this battle last week, I ended up getting one of the syringes and a cup with a straw and milk in it, then bit of milk, bit of medicine until it was gone. I licked a wee bit to try to get her to take it and it was bloody horrendous! Good luck

It’s god awful, my dd is 7 so can possibly reason with her a bit more. I used to give her some then she’d get a jelly baby then a bit more and another jelly baby and repeat.
We also had those round ball like lollies that I’d never allowed her to have before.
Is there anything she ever asks for that you say no to?

It was hard work... we cried a lot but it was better then the tonsillitis.

Good Luck x

Werthers original afterwards worked here

Dd1 had it last year. We didn't finish the course. I had to call the doctor to prescribe something else.

We had a lovely combo or scarlet fever and chicken pox. It should have been a 10 day course and we managed 2 doses, both of which she brought back up

Is that the red antibiotic medicine?

Ice lollies. Numbs the tongue and the taste buds. Half the lolly, take the meds, have other half of lolly

I found the only thing that took the taste away was tropical flavoured fizzy drink like Lilt. The fact the brand I had was orange, menthol and tutti frutti flavoured meant chocolate didn't help, and the bubbles were necessary to wash the taste away (I learnt to swallow tablets after that experience)

Thank you everyone! Some of these I will definitely be trying. Bedtime dose next...dreading it already. She is prescribed 4 doses a day for 5 days and tbh I really cant see her managing it.

Yes its the red one! Smells like cherry tastes like god knows what!

@HulaHoop2012 yes good idea, hopefully the novelty of the forbidden will help

I dripped some on my finger earlier and tried it...I honestly don't know how kids are meant to take it

One of my dc's had to take a daily tablet from an early age so was able to take the tablet form quite young. Saved my bacon!!

We put it into his milk. It worked, even though I thought there was no way it would!

My 3 year old was prescribed this for tonsillitis a couple of months back, she's never been bothered by medicines before but this stuff was something else and she only managed 2 doses of a 5 day course. She now won't even have calpol because she doesn't trust me why would they give this to kids is beyond me it's vile.

We also went back to the GP and got something else. DS (4) was trying but he just couldn’t keep it in his mouth and kept spitting it out!

Probably doesn’t help you, but my older child has had a few run ins with the hospital for IV antibiotics so I just give the choice of horrible mouth medicine or hand medicine. My younger child appears to not have tastebuds and will swallow anything. I think perhaps discussing what might happen if she doesn’t/why it is important is not a bad idea

I feel your pain, it's absolutely hideous stuff. The only way I could get it down my DD was to mix with copious quantities of Nutella. It was the only thing I found that totally disguised the revolting taste. Good luck!!

Is it possible to get a different Antibiotic that tastes better?

I only ask as my DS and DD love Amoxicillin (the yellow stuff) and will happily take it.

DS was 10 months when he got prescribed this. I ended up mixing it in baby rice with maple syrup. It was a LONG week!

Mix it into little lolly moulds with some fruit smoothie drink. Give one lolly in place of each dose.

at 5 - bribery
have you seen frozen2 yet?

My ds was able to swallow it, but immediately vomited. Every time. I went back to the GP and we were given an alternative.