Omeprazole - how to get 9wo to take it!

[addictedtofrazzles]

Hi there,

My 9wo needs to take omeprazole and has been prescribed the Losec tablets that are dissolved in 10ml of water. I then try to syringe 7ml into him. He is having NON of it and spits it straight back out (he will happily take ranitadine though).

Does anyone have any suggestions as to how else I could get him to take it, please?

Thanks

Do you bottle feed? just wondering if he would suck it through a teat, i'm not sure if you can mix omeprazole with a wee bit milk once it's dissolved to try and get him to take it. Other wise, did you try syringing it onto a spoon and giving him it in little doses (my dd was rubbish at taking calpol from a syringe, but managed with a spoon following her 8 week vaccinations).

Otherwise, phone your local pharmacy (one of the big supermarket chains might have one that's open later), and see if they have any ideas.

DH used to have a trick with DD when she wouldn't take calpol for a temp, to either, leave the syringe in her mouth (generally she would clamp down on it anyway) having just dribbled a little bit in, and somehow, that would prompt her to swallow some, or just dribble a little bit in then immediately tickle under her chin (he got that tip from the vet!?!)

I don't know if either of these will help you.

Thanks guys - will give these tips a try. I think it tastes so vile that he won't swallow (because he happily takes ranitadine from a syringe!). On the label it says you can mix with yoghurt/fruit juice, but given his age I am not happy to do that!

Hi I have been giving my DD2 this medicine since she was 7 weeks (20 weeks tomorrow). I make it up in a little bowl and spoon feed it to her using a pointy ended teaspoon to help pick up the "grit" and put it in her mouth by her cheek. Also if I angle her seat right it's harder to spit it out again, tho not too far back so she doesn't choke!

Hi I sympathise. My 22 month old has been on it in various forms since 5 weeks old. We tried everything. We even got a suspension of it at one point (the NHS don't often prescribe it as it is over £100 a bottle) as it was useless trying to get it out of a syringe in the granule form. It does taste grim aswell.

We tried a form of Omeprazole tablet which they said we could disolve in 2ml of water and was a pink liquid, not those bead things (MUPS) and we did small amounts 3 time a day. We also sometimes mixed with the domperidone that he was on and tasted sweet so he took it in there.

I was breastfeeding but he sometimes sucked the losec with abit of water or formula out of a medicine cup with a teat on.

It was impossible basically and we just tried it in all forms, the soluable tablet being the easiest, until he was 20 weeks when we switched to capsules and sprinkled the beads in a small amount of apple purree (some of them have to be given in acidic food). From then on it has been far easier and he now has the MUPS sprinkled in his breakfast.We are hoping to have stopped it by the time he is 2.