Baby won't take banana antibiotic

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Can you mix the yellow medicine antibiotic with anything-say add it to milk, hide it in porridge my dd is hysterical when we try to give it to her we are almost restraining her! Any tips?

Add sugar?
It tastes like shit I don't blame her. I still can't eat banana flavoured stuff after having that stuff when I was about 10.

I've hid it before in something more controllable, like a bedtime bottle or a yoghurt that I know DD would definitely finish. Something like porridge - no reason why not, but just hide it in a very very tiny portion otherwise you won't know how much she has had!

How old is she? If she's still wee, then a syringe is better. It's not entirely pleasant for anyone but wrap her in a towel so her arms can't move, put her on your lap and wait for her to wail - then syringe slowly into the side of her cheek and it will dribble down the back of her throat. Not very nice but needs must.

She's 1. Yep it's foul, she has taken to screaming with teeth clenched so hiding it it is then! If people heard her I would be arrested!!!

We used syringe and squirted right down the throat so it didn't touch his tongue; let him hold his consolation chocolate button himself so that he could put it in his own mouth immediately and not risk me being too slow about getting rid of any risk of taste!
I think it's hard to conceal, especially in something as bland as porridge

You could try hiding (Ribena has a strong taste itself and can work), but you have to make darn sure she takes everything to get the full dose into her - sometimes the larger volume makes it harder IYSWIM.

Yy most liquid antibiotics fast vile. And the taste is difficult to hide.

I favour the "Swoop in quickly, give fast - and then cuddle" approach: you need 2 people, one to cuddle LO thightly, the other person with medicine syringe poised fully loaded, stick in screaming mouth, pointing to back and side and depress plunger. LO will then pause to swallow, then cry some more. Deploy cuddle and comfort and a bit of Nutella.

I am saying this as somebody who gave a nightly antibiotic to DS2 from age 8 months to 3 1/2 years. He is now 10 and I have only just recovered from how horrid it was.
But - DH and I got v good at it and the distress was far less than the initial wrestling matches and prolonged drying (him and me).

Good luck.

You can mix it in anythingas long as it it's hot.
I found hollowing out a malteaser with a pin then filling it with biotics great.
Good luck.

Honestly?

With medicines I did restrain
And when she opened mouth to scream squirted in with a syringe

Its got to be done, and the faster the better.

Bribery with chocolate also effective (after not before)

Last time we were given anti biotics they have us orange flavour (no reason it's just what they had) think it's the sugar one.

If it's really hard you could go back and ask for orange flavour I that might be better.

I know people who have used baby food fruit pouches - someone swore by the Plum vanilla, blueberry and banana for a similar thing

Hi, my GP husband suggested that I mix the antibiotics with Calpol as most babies love that. I guess it depends on how often you need to give the antibiotics. But otherwise, I agree with other posters, I have had to hold my son very tightly and use a syringe to ensure that he took it. Hope that helps.

How vital is the antibiotic? Obvioulsly if is is for something serious then there is no question that it needs to be administered, but I have a 14 yr old DD who has never had a course of antiobiotics.
She has been prescribed sereral and believe me i have tried, but even if she swallowed a dose it would be vomited back up in seconds.

The problems that they were prescribed for did get better of their own accord- perhaps took a little longer than with antibiotic, but saved an awful lot of hassle.

Again I am only suggesting this for minor problems that may resolve anyway with time.

Thing that worked for us was to suck up half of the antibiotic with the syringe, then fill up the rest of the syringe with calpol, so the first thing they taste is the calpol - it seems to override the taste of the antibiotic too, so they don't get wise to it! Then repeat either straight away or a little bit later so they get the full dose.

Good if your child likes calpol. I have a DD who has never has calpol and she is 14!

syringe straight into side.cheek.

Another yes to using a syringe, if you don't have one I think they come with the baby nurofen bottles. Or try to mix with a baby fruit pouch or yoghurt perhaps. I share your pain, ds will eat anything except banana so getting the banana flavoured antibiotic down him is more difficult than getting the cat to take antibiotics... Definitely a two man job!