How do you administer Calpol when baby gets so distressed??

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Occasionally she will take it voluntarily, but most of the time it's a massive battle which results in her getting so distressed. I feel awful and she's so worked up and I can rarely manage to get the full dose in her.

Anyone else come across this?

Sorry when I said still in nappies I meant little ones not children with SNs. I apologize (thread tittle was babies...)

I have medicine dummies one like the link above and another which has a plunger. Both life savers as the calpol trauma was too much for the pair of us! A free alternative is the teat of a bottle but my dd got a bit frustrated with that.

Sorry, still I wasn't taking any kind of offence, didn't mean to imply I might do! Just meant, I may have useful advice as i Have been at this a looooong time! Lots of ops, lots of illness, cant swallow tablets of course and he still won't drink the sodding calpol.

Be really careful forcing it in with a syringe, it can choke them. My DS breathed in some meds that were forced in in hospital and was really ill.

It is best to try and get them to voluntarily take it by mixing it with something nice. A bit of sugar water often works. If it is not mixable I give a bit of sugar water or juice then a bit of medicine and repeat slowly.

DD as a baby would actually throw up if we tried to force calpol in so that wasn't any help. The nurse at the GP's prescribed us suppositories on the condition it was once only emergency use only (I think they're expensive?). I thought it was my syringing technique at the time, but she recently did it again when she'd willingly drunk the calpol off a spoon, so think she may actually be sensitive to one of the ingredients. So second trying a different brand, or try ibuprofen instead.