Help! Baby spitting out Flucoxecillin for Impetigo - how do I get it in him????

[lovely74]

My 8mth old has impetigo and has been given flucoxecillin antibiotic. We have tried many ways of getting it into him - spoon, syringe, in milk, in juice, but with no joy at all. It tastes absolutely foul, completely bitter, so I don't blame him really!

We got it on friday and I went back to the GP today for advice and was just told "you HAVE to get it in!" How????? He suggested mix it with sugar, the pharmacist suggested with juice. Thankfully the GP I saw today also gave me Fucidic (sp?) cream so hopefully that will do the trick.

He's breastfed and being baby-led weaned with one formula bottle at bed, so he's used to being in control of what goes in. He's only just started to swallow small amounts of water from a cup.

What have other people done? I need tricks of the trade, I've never had to give a baby meds before!

Another Mner had a similar problem with this particular antibiotic and her GP prescribed an alternative.
I've taken the capsule form recently and even those burnt my throat.

The doctor was adamant this was the only abx he could take, wouldn't entertain another option. I don't understand how you can get a baby who has no concept of medication and why it's needed to swallow something that tastes poisonous???!

Have you tried pointing the syringe into the pocket of the cheek and not onto the tongue? It's harder for them to spit it out if you do that.

When they grit their teeth because they know what's coming, slide the syringe along the teeth/gums and into the cheek.

Just looked at the other posts (managed to find them after getting the spelling right!) and erthymyacin seems to be an alternative. Anyone any experience of asking their GP to change it?

DS had this as a baby, after he'd had chicken pox.

He's got digestive issues (so the GP avoids giving him antibiotics as much as possible), so she gave us an antibiotic cream to rub on the skin instead? I don't think they'll give you the cream if the impetigo is more widespread though, not sure.

It worked quickly too, just can't remember its damned name.

Might have been the cream you've been given (sorry, missed that bit ).

It worked on its own though, whatever it was called!