3 year old spitting out antibiotics

[justme135]

I am exhursted!

My 3 year old DD has been on antibiotics since Monday at first she took it but wasn't happy. Then she learnt if she blew a raspberry with it in her mouth it would all come out.

I have tried mixing it in milkshake or juice.
Offering sweets after each bit of medicine she has.
Putting it in a little bit at a time
Putting it all in at once to get it over and done with.
Holding her hand away while trying to get her to take it.
Tell her she need it to get better
Putting he in the naughtily corner
Bribery of every time imaginable

Other family member have managed to get her to take it once but if they try the next time she stubbornly say 'no it's gustin' (disgusting) and then spits it out for them as well

She is getting very distressed when we get the medicine out and I hate seeing her like that!
I am out of ideas and she is suppose to have to for another 2 days and quite honestly I'm not sure we actually got her to have any today!

Really feel like I am failing her by not getting her to have it but I just don't now how!

Which antibiotic is it? Some of them do taste absolutely foul, but amoxicillin, one of the commonest ones, often comes in several nice fruity flavours. The pharmacies don't all necessarily stock the same mixture. Might be worth contacting your GP and explaining that you're hardly getting any in, and are there any more palatable equally effective preparations they could prescribe.

Failing that, you may simply have to force it in I'm afraid, if bribery simply isn't working. You have my sympathies though, it's horrid.

Is it one of those powders in a plastic bottle that you mix with water and shake? They are vile, all of them. When 16yo dd was a toddler and had to have them, I found it impossible too.

I explained to my doctor and asked for tablets. They don't make them in the right dosage for children of that age, but somehow I persuaded him.

I had to crush the tablets and divide them very carefully, but it was so much easier to get her to swallow crushed tablet mixed with a spoon of yoghurt and then give her a small amt of sugar after than it was to to mess with those ghastly ab drinks.

Thereafter dd had tablets everytime (not often).