better tasting alternative to flucloxacillin

[reikizen]

Hello, just wondering if anyone knows of a better tasting alternative to fluclox? Gp has given it to dd2 for eczema and she has vomited following both doses so far. (I was very brusque with her about it until I tasted it and I also almost vomited - I can still taste it 1 hr later after coffee and food! If you have never tasted it, it is exactly like the bile you bring up when you have been vomiting for hours!)
Please no suggestions about mixing it with food as it is like suggesting mixing petrol with banana and hoping to disguise it, not possile I'm afraid!)
God, that was long, sorry!

DS2 has had to have this (his GP apologised to him!) and did manage to cope by eating chocolate afterwards. According to him, metronidazole was worse though!

I think the problem is that different ABs for for different bacteria. IIRC, DS2 was given this for a skin infection too.

Have you tried using a syringe so you can bypass most of her tastebuds? I think we had more success with this than with a spoon.

I suspect you are right, that abx can't be interchanged so easily. Yes, the second dose was given with a syringe and she is usually a very willing medicine taker but wham, out it came! There is no way I could manage it 4 times a day, and none is going in tbh. Thanks anyway!

The sugar free variety is horrid (DS has been on it 6 weeks!!) but the sugary version is a teeny bit better if you can get it changed by the doctor?

Are you also having the difficulty of having to give it one hour before food or on an empty stomach? DS is weaned but also bf still which proved very hard to find 4 times a day when he hadn't just eaten and wasn't going to again for an hour!

holding nose whilst syringing it in...and then a chaser of lemonade....
it's the most unbelievably disgusting and difficult medicine to get into a child so my full sympathy

Kind GP has given us a prescrption for erythromycin which is much better tasting and has gone down a treat with a milk and smartie chaser! Thanks for your replies.

Fabulous.