in losing sympathy with my unwell DD who is refusing to have any medicine?

[mckenzie]

She is 3, nearly 4. Any other time she would bite my hand off for a spoonful of calpol or nurofen. She's really really poorly though now and has been refusing totally to have any medicine. She has a temperature, a hideous cough and cold, all red and blotchy in her face. She knows I'm sure that medicine will make her feel better. I have offered her ice cream afterwards, jelly, all sorts of treats but she still refuses saying she doesn't like it . She's currently asleep on the sofa.

Thankfully we are past all that now as they are 11 and 13.
It was typical that once we had the prescription, they went through a stage of good health for a while and we only used them once. A bit of struggle but no way near as bad as getting medicine down dd.
We then found out dd was much better at taking tablets then medicine, so as I said I resorted to half a calpol melt.

I was going to say suppositories were a godsend. My son also has a history of FC, but has thankfully grown out of them. I go twice a year for new prescription of 'up-the-bums'...

I've never heard of a Calpol melt - a tablet that dissolves I presume??

yab completey unreasonable

calpol melts
They are for 6+ but I used to cut them in half and dose by weight as well. Hospital worked it out for me when one of the dc's had a febrile convulsion

No, I am just very bad at spelling...