Teething and won't take calpol

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My daughter will not take calpol. She is OK in the day with gel and cuddles but is very restless at night. We have tried to give her calpol via a syringe but she just spits it out. Does anyone have any ideas/tips on how we can get her to take calpol?
Thanks, Elsa

How old is she?

DS is an exellent spitter too! We persevere with the syringe to get his numerous meds in him (no other choice really ) - so, mouth open, syringe in as far back as you dare without making her gag, squirt it in 1ml at a time. Very difficult to spit up from the back of the mouth (tho DS sometimes manages) and also, hard to gather up small quantities to spit back out.
Some (not DS) will tolerate it being syringed in to the side of the mouth, between the cheek and gum.
We also fool/bribe with a drink - DS gets a few sucks, drink quickly removed, meds squirted in and drink replaced before he realises whats happened. Not successful every time, I might add.
Good Luck - they are clever little devils.

This depends on how old your DD is. I have got to say I did not want to hold my DS nose and force medicine into him. He was about 2 yrs. He had a high temperature, fever etc.. middle of the night and DH was away. I know this sounds weird but I put him in the corner and left the room for 3 mins. Returned and asked again 'No' it took me about one hour (or it felt like it) but he took the medicine without force. I was so scared of hurting him to get the medicine inside him. he never refuse medicine after that.

Syringes are good and I'd agree with feelingbetter that the sides in really small doses work best. Alternatively, you could try Nurofen.......you can get orange or strawberry so a different flavour is worth a try. The dose is different though.

When my DD went through a stage of refusing to take it from a syringe or spoon, I used to put it into her bottle before bed, putting slightly less milk in than normal to ensure she took it all, then gave a bit more milk when bottle empty.
It was only a phase with DD1, she now asks for calpol and willingly takes it off the spoon ! Good Luck !

Have you tried Nelson's Teething powders? I found them to be very effective at relieving my dd's teething pain when she was a baby, and they are natural too. You just have to sprinkle the powder onto the gum's, no fuss trying to get them to take medicine.