Dd won't have the medicine anyone got any tips please?

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Dd3 has an infection in both eyes and her ear doctors has given her amoxicillin but she hates it and spits it out. She won't even have her calpol now because she thinks I've tricked her. Help!

Two of you. One holds her down and the other squirts in the calpol with a syringe. It works and she'll get over it.

I say the above assuming you've tried disguising it in drinks and food etc. Just a spot of tough love isn't it?

The only way I can get my DS to take medicine is by putting it in milk. I've literally tried everything else I can think of. May be worth a try? I told DS I'd made him a special milkshake at first (incase he tasted the medicine flavour) but he never mentioned that it tasted any different

Bribe with chocolate buttons. Have medicine, get two or three buttons after.

Or the pin down method.

Favourite sweets to take the taste away.Dd had this when she was 6 and still remembers it.

If you do get to the point of just getting it down her, someone gave me the tip of squirting it into the cheek as it’s harder to spit out so some of it will go down.

Failing that, bribery....chocolate buttons used to work in our house.

Thanks everyone tried sweets but she's so poorly that she doesn't even want them. I held her down today but she spat it all through her nose while begging me to stop, it's broke my heart on top of that there's the eye drops too, I'll try putting it in her cheeks thanks.

I googled about putting it in drinks and food but it said not to cause it won't be the most affective. At this rate she's getting nothing so diluted amoxicillin is better than none I suppose.

Our daughter was a similar age and wouldn’t take an antibiotic, gp told us to hold her down and pinch her nose. That was unsuccessful. Her temperature was raging and we took her to a&e and they gave her a suppository. Well, that shocked her. We had no further problems with her taking medicine. Although a few times we had to ask her if she wanted normal medicine or were we going to have to give her a tablet up the bum?

Does she generally take calpol with no problem? If so, can you explain to her that it is calpol and get her take it from a weaning spoon (1ml) at a time until she has taken her calpol. Reward her with chocolate. After about 30 mins when the calpol has worked (and she may be more reasonable), tell her you have some stronger medicine, you'd like her to try. Put the dose in an egg cup or shot glass and add sugar. Again give her the dose on a small plastic weaning spoon or dolls spoon, sometimes even if tastes horrible a smaller spoon is more likely to succeed and stay down.

Also sometimes the pharmacy has the sugar version of the antibiotic - always ask for this one as it is much easier to get the child to take it!

Put the eye cream in when she's asleep - I had to do this when my DD had an eye infection and my DH was away, just couldn't get enough in while she was awake!

Medicine - it's a case of being strict, little bit at a time off a spoon and a choc button after each bit (or have the choc button in her mouth whilst having the med). It does taste terrible.

Is it the orange one or banana? Orange tastes very bitter whereas banana tastes nicer. You can ask to swap.

Otherwise yes put it in squash or juice, possibly even in a baby's bottle.

If it's the orange one then It's absolutely vile, my DD is never difficult with medicine but got this last year and just could not, would not have it. In the end I tried a drop, really really bitter. Tried it in orange juice but nothing disguises that bitterness. We called and got a different prescription from the GP. Antibiotics are no good if they won't take them.

I had success with the chocolate and vanilla petit filous, spiking it with the antibiotics.

Good luck.

It’s genuinely a game of ‘who’s the boss’. They have to realise there are some things you can’t back down on. I’ve really been there with bitter bitter tasting prednisolone solution, and the fear that Calpol can’t be trusted in case you’re playing tricks. . And with eye drops do them whilst sleeping, but need to set your alarm to nip in before they wake up for morning dose.

My son gets regular ear infections (hearing aids), he has the banana antibiotics but can’t manage tablets. I pin him down so he is tilted, or hanging off something like the bed, it makes it much harder for him to spit it out.

It’s put him off real banana as well.

Mix with icing sugar or milkshake syrup.

Swaddle her in a bath sheet, one person holds her, one person holds her nose gently skoosh into her mouth while holding her mouth shut and then blow in her face to get her to swallow.

Its awful to do but my kids are the same! My partner holds them down and i hold her nose and put the medicine in the cheek and blow a little in her face it makes them automatically swallow

With my older two I could pin them and squeeze it little by little via syringe into corner of mouth. I hated it but by day 2 they felt much better and took it willingly.

With my youngest she spat it all back out this way. I ended up at the local children's ward as she was on day 4 of a urine infection and really needed the antibiotics. They pretty much didn't believe I was doing the bit by bit into mouth properly and gave it a go but soon gave up and saw I wasn't being silly and she wouldn't take it.

First they tried storing it into yoghurt - didn't work

Then they mixed it with squash and I managed to get her to drink it with massive overexaggerated praise, cheering and whooping and promises of big cuddles once done. It was all big and showy and I got my other kids to join in and it worked thankfully. A few days in and she was fed up with the drink so introduced 2 smarties after too. Until then she was too ill to want the sweets but they appealed by then

I agree that you need to restrain, put it in her mouth and hold it closed. If that doesn’t work (ie she throws up) let the GP know as she may need a drip.

Pinch her nose ( or get her to if she'll do it), so she can't taste it, syringe it in, swallow, them water ready immediately to wash the taste away. Even had to do this with calpol as my dc hated ( still does as a teenager !) any sweet tasting drink / medicine !

I had this recently with my 16 month old. It was hell. 4×5mls a day for 2 weeks.
My best tips:
Try and disguise it in things as much as possible. Dairy based products worked best (fruit juice/fruit puree was instantly rejected as it doesn't mask the taste)inc porridge, yoghurt and milk.
It has to be little enough that they cant detect it, so 2/2.5 mls in a classic tommee tippie cup. I would measure out his milk for the day in the morning and use the jug for everything including cereal, porridge and drinks. I would usually get 10mls in this way.
Then the other 10 mls I just had to force him to have. It was awful. You have to put the syringe into the cheek and just do tiny amounts at a time while keeping their mouth shut. I absolutely hated it, and would do it with my husband. We played childrens songs on you tube while doing it. He definitely became less hysterical as the two weeks went on, and the first few days were the worst.
Good luck. I was so glad when the 2 weeks were over.

Thanks everyone for the suggestions I finally got her take it with the promise of a sip of my coke not good I know but she took it all willingly! It's the banana one, she had the orange one a few months ago when she had tonsillitis and that stuff was vile! I specifically asked for this one this time.

Ah the things we for love for our children. i think I've used coca cola as a promise to when my daughter needed to take medicine. They really perk up for that little taste