Tips for getting a toddler to take medicine please?

[southernbelles]

Hi all, I'm desperate for some tips/advice please!

My DS is 2 & has been prescribed with a twice-daily 10 day course of antibiotics. My heart sank when the GP prescribed it as he even refuses Calpol. For the first dose he got so upset that once we got it into him he vomited it straight back up (he seems to have a tendency to vomit quite easily). Please, does anyone have any tips?! We've tried reasoning, bribery, holding him, mixing it into yoghurt, whatever we do he screams until he's sick. It's important we get the medicine into him, can't have him vomiting twice a day for the next 10 days

Thank you for any advice!

Squirt into the side of the mouth so he has to swallow, then something strong and pleasant tasting straight afterwards.

Bribery (it’s all I have left these days).

My dd hates calpol but I mix it in with Ella's Kitchen Strawberry and Apple pouch and she can't tell it's in there. You could put this as a fruit topping on icecream. Good luck.

Allow toddler to draw medicine into plunger whilst you hold bottle firm. Check dose it exact, show how to expel air bubbles if any and then let toddler give it to themselves. Maybe they could use the plunger to give you your own 'medicine'?

Thanks all, I've tried most things over the last couple of days & found the thing that worked best was promising a BF straight afterwards! Extended BF has its challenges but it's times like these that I'm glad I'm still feeding!