Calpol Jelly

[gingerninja85]

I’m preparing myself for my 4 year olds tonsillectomy. She’s a tricky patient and very stubborn so I forsee a lot of medicine refusal happing in the future.

I’ve googled this and haven’t found any answers. Has anyone ever made jelly out of calpol / Ibruprofen? I was thinking, if I portioned it out carefully, it would be an easy way to get the meds in her while simultaneously soothing her throat.

i would probably make the jelly up, portion it out into small mouth sized moulds, wait for it to cool a little so not boiling hot and then mix in a dose.

My worry is that the heat might degrade the active ingredients in the painkillers. Any idea?

I would think the heat would damage it...

You could try fast melts?

Also, they don't really recommend changing the diet after a tonsillectomy. The longer they only eat soft foods, the higher the risk of infection.

I’ve stirred medicine into yoghurts in the past.

When i had my tonsils out 40 years ago, they made me eat toast and crackers! I don’t know what the current thinking is.

Yeah, you don’t change diet anymore - it increases infection risk and slows down healing.

That aside though, the heat would damage the painkillers, you’d need to use cold water and then it wouldn’t make jelly.

Yoghurt will be your best bet if you can’t just administer it normally.