Any tips for giving medicine to a toddler!?

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My son is on 5 diff types of meds for the next week and they all need to be taken a few times a day at different times. He used to take calpol etc so well but due to the foul tasting ones we've got he's refusing to drink any thing, spits out the stuff I syringe and screams blue murder, thrashes about, wails, hits. He's just had surgery and I want to try and keep it calm so he doesn't injure himself, for today I've been stringing stuff in whilst he's mid scream. I put one crushed tablet in his milk but I'm hesitant to add any liquid ones incase he tastes it and refuses milk as well. He has issues with blood sugars so he really needs to keep drinking the milk.

What can I do? Today has been a nightmare and he's one dose short on the antibiotics, he's woken up just now and keeps smacking it away, spitting it out, hitting me etc. Is there any magic tricks? He's nearly two and very wary of me at the moment. I feel so useless.

Could you mix some in a yoghurt or something else with a taste that may mask the medicine? Or else add some sugar so it's sweeter? Not ideal, but better than no meds!

OP sorry to hear that. We had similar with DS when he was 2 - had minor surgery and had to take meds for a fortnight afterwards. We ended up bribing him with a couple of chocolate buttons straight after taking the meds, to take the taste away and take his mind off it.

Thank you both, I put one of the crushed tablets in a yoghurt and he didn't notice!! Looks like he's gonna be eating a lot of yogurt this week.

Yep - chocolate buttons and smarties.

My ds is DF or I'd of definitely been plying him with the whole bakery section by now

Does anyone know if you can get paracetamol and nurofen in tablet form for young children? I think putting everything in yogurt is the way to go but the liquid forms are too sweet and he can taste them in every drink/food I put it in.

glad youve found a solution op, the syringes were a god send after the calpol spoons.

@staydazzling I can imagine they must of been a nightmare. It's all so sticky too and impossible to get off carpets.

my eldest used to stand in his cot wait till i got it close and whack the spoon up do not miss those days

I recently asked whether I could buy any tablet paracetamol or nurofen for toddler at the pharmacy and they said there is nothing over the counter, but when DD was in hospital she was given a paracetamol tablet that you can chew, so you could try asking your GP if there is anything like this they can give on subscription. The tablet they gave her must have been megadose because they said it would last all night. Otherwise your GP will be able to prescribe a suppository if you get desperate. I feel for you, it's so hard when they are medicine refusers!

I mean prescription, not subscription!

I used to mix it with icing sugar and put it on top of a fairy cake ...it's the first bit they ate