Non strawberry paracetamol

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Does anyone know if anywhere stocks non strawberry flavoured calpol please? My daughter will not take calpol, I've tried all the tips I can find including holding her chin and nose which was horrible for us both 😭 and she just holds onto it and spits it all out.

She takes nurofen fine so I think it must be the flavour but even Tesco own brand seems to still be strawberry

Tesco own brand does cherry flavoured paracetamol

Tesco do Cherry

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Lloyds pharmacy own brand is orange

b&m and Poundland do a cherry one (same brand cheaper in £1land)

I think Lloyds brand is orange

Homebargains do a cherry one.

In addition to the above, have you tried squirting it in with a syringe but then keep the syringe in the mouth Until they swallow

Thank you everyone, going to try a different Tesco's and a Lloyds!

And yep, and even slipping the syringe in while she's feeding and trying to trick her into thinking it's still my nipple but she actively hates it!

Also considering it's sugar free why is it so STICKY, we're both bloody covered in it 😂

I would check the doseage and break up then crush up part of a paracetamol tablet and put it in yogurt

@HappiDaze she's 8 months old can you do that for a baby?

I thought you’re not supposed to split tablets unless there’s a ridge in them otherwise you can get an unequal split of the actual medication? And half a regular paracetamol tablet would be about the right dose for an 8 year, not an 8 month old. So I don’t think that’s great advice. You could try mixing the correct liquid dose in yoghurt though but if they’re happy with nurofen then I’d probably just stick to that for general stuff but if it’s something like chicken pox where you can’t give it and you’re still really struggling with the calpol then I would ask the pharmacist for suppositories.

You can also get suppository form of paracetamol from a pharmacy- especially useful if they are vomiting and can't keep anything down- or keep spitting the meds out.