Medicine sachets

[Anothernewmum1]

I’d seen on another thread you could get medicine sachets like calpol and ibruprofen. Our toddler has a syringe aversion and I think these would work! But you can only get them on amazon/ebay which doesn’t fill me with confidence. They seem ‘out of stock’ elsewhere. Does anyone know if there’s a reason for this? Have they been discontinued?
thanks

Sorry if I’m missing something here but can’t you just put the medicine on a spoon if they don’t like syringes?

@Downbadatthegym he won’t take it! He knows our sneaky tricks unfortunately but I think a sachet would fool him!

Quick Google search and they're in stock at boots. I honestly can't see how'd you'd get that into him successfully if he can't do it from a syringe or spoon? You need to be able to squeeze it all into his mouth.
Syringe really is the easiest. Pin them down if you have to and squirt. I say that as a mum of child with a number of health issues and at the moment we have 7 syringes of medicine morning and night. You just do it.

Aren't they the travel versions, so you still need to use a spoon.

@Bigfellabamboo we used to give him long term daily medicine which is where I think he’s picked up the aversion. I think we don’t have the knack as he ends up choking when we syringe into him - even into his cheek as he inhales to cry and he ends up then aspirating.

Honestly you just need to persevere, how old is he? Talk regularly about why it's important to take medicine. Reward him and just force it where you need to.

@LIZS I was hoping he could suck it from the packet like his favourite yoghurts so he wouldn’t realise it was ‘medicine’ as such. The spoon never seems to work. But we’ll keep trying.

No not the same type of sachet.

@Bigfellabamboo he’s 15 months so his understanding isn’t quite there yet but we are definitely trying and doing lots of play where we feed teddies! Thanks for advice. It’s grim and I can only imagine how difficult it is to do 7 times in a row!

We used to use these. They are good, but definately require transfer of medicine from packet to mouth via syringe. They are just like little yeast packets. Fiddley. The bottle is easier. I just used the packets if when he was teething and didn't need Calpol all the time, but wanted some handy in the changing bag in case.