Giving medicine tips

[flowerfairy]

Ds (18mths)given first lot of antibiotics(amoxycilin) today for throat infection and chesty cough, poor thing. Anyway can not get ds to take medicine for love nor money. So far I've tried, in a syringe, on a spoon, in a drink (juice, milk), chocolate buttons as bribery, but cannot get it down him. Any suggestions? Should I be worried if he's not taking it?

Mix it with yoghurt.

I feel for you flowerfairy!

dd is 3.7 now but still the same. Usually dh has to hold her and I syringe it to the back of her mouth so she has no choice but swallow it. The only thing she likes taking is ds's teething gel!

ds (1.1) on the other hand... you show him the spoon and the mouth is open!

The last time I was given amoxycilin, it was concentrated and I only Had to give DD 1.5 ml for each dose, much easier.

Thanks for your tips everyone. Gave one final attempt this morning of straight from the spoon. And bless his little cotton socks he took it, though his face tells the story of yuk. I think he knows that we're doing it for his own good, somehow. He does seem alot better today so perhaps that has something to do with it too!

flowerfairy, can you do something he really loves, (playdough, paints, cooking????) and get it all set up and then very cooly say 'right, let's get your medicine and then we'll play'?