giving medicine to a 6 month old

[jillnlois]

please can anyone advise or recommend a safe way of giving calpol to my 6 month old because it ends up all over me and not in her mouth?! i thought of pipettes but where do you get them from?

i use a siringe but u get a dummy that dispenses medicine. i also foung dd hated calpol but likes medised

medecine syringe.... ask at local chemist!

When my DTs were in NICU the midwives gave them antibiotics by putting straight into the teat of a bottle whilst they were sucking.

lois wont use a dummy, thanks though i will try local chemist for a blunt ended one thanks!!

the bottle teat is a great idea! i will try that too. thanks

I tickle her under the chin till she's swallowed it all - seems to induce a swallowing action.

Even though ds showed no interst in a dummy, he did like the medicine dispenser dummy, available from mothercare- its good, really.

We also bought small plastic syringue type things from chemist.
Worked a treat.

Are you sorted now ?

syringes are great, no mess and aimed at side and a little bit back in mouth, thay have to swallow or drown

Get a medicine dropper at the chemist. You squeeze the rubber bulb at the top of the tub to suck up the meds. Found it better than a syringe as the syringe has quite a sharp end, whereas the dropper is rounded.