To not be able to get my kid to take his medicine!!!

[Toomuchtooyoung01]

DS 16 months has chest infection and been prescribed antibiotics (amoxicillin). It is a battle to get the syringe into his mouth and once in, all antibiotics get spat straight out.
He becomes absolutely hysterical and thrashes about, the whole thing is so stressful. I’m really worried that he isn’t getting anywhere near a proper dosage of antibiotics and his chest infection is going to get worse.
Does anyone have any tips on this please?!

My dd would only take medicine from a spoon when she was really little. She just didn't like the syringes at all, no matter how you tried. Now she's 7 and will happily use either, but still sometimes needs a bribe if it's a flavour she doesn't like.

Some medicines can't be mixed with anything. I would double check that before trying it. If you do mix it then you need to be sure they're going to eat/drink it all otherwise they'll only get a part dose.
I used to have a nightmare with this, been bitten before trying to give antibiotics. I find it better to squeeze a tiny drop in, sip of juice, tiny drop, sip of juice... it'll take forever but it's less traumatic.