dd1 is ill and wont take medicine.

[misdee]

she has a horrible croupy cough, is complainingof a headache and earache (i have been up most of the night with her), but she wont take any calpol. she spits it out. she is refusing all juices so icant sneak it in that way, she only wants water. do calpol still do the melting tablets? if they do, what age can we give those to her? she is 4.5yrs old.

I think the meltets are for 6+. Have you tried giving it to her in a drink.

whoops see you've already tried the drink.

Sorry misdee, I only think they have the melting tablets for older children - look on the calpol website www.calpol.co.uk for further info.
What is it about the calpol, doesn't she like the taste? Have you tried Nurofen for children?

she cant take nurofen as she is asthmatic. i'm about to try and get the gp to come out.

yes I would, by the sound of things she's probably got an ear infection - you'll just have to bribe her to take any medicine your GP gives her - we've all done that before! Hope she's feeling better soon

gotta take her down there. they dont do home visits for children!! idiots.

WHAT??!! you have to be a particular age? that's rubbish!!

I hide calpol in fromage frais for my little one - 5ml per one large pot seems to do the trick. If she even gets a whiff of the stuff she spits it out but once stirred into her favourite pud, she is successfully duped. Just stir thoroughly.

If you do go to the gp - make sure you ask them for their reasons behind refusing home visits for kids - not even night calls when they need something urgently but don?t want to take them out in the night to A and E full of drunks and fights? sounds unbelievably cruel to me.

Ask your gp if any medicine he prescribes comes in suppository form. Not very pleasant for mum, but it gets medicine into a child and they can't spit it out .

We did this when DS1 was younger and had tonsilitis. It was so painful for him we couldn't get him to swallow anything, so we couldn't even get painkiller into him in order that he might swallow the anti-bs. GP prescribed some painkiller suppositories (you should have seen dh's face!), which meant that, after a little while, DS1 could actually swallow the medicine to make him better.

Could she have fizzy paracetomol if you diluted the dose, dissolved in water?

Our local GPs still do home visits 4 kids...

well she has an ear infection in both ears. has been given anti-biotics, but doc says its not that important if she doesnt take them as it weill clear up on its own, but would be quicker if she took them. also said to check her hearing when better as her ears are pretty gunged up.

actually raised the fact that dd1 hasnt been checked for DCM ,whereas dd2 and bump have/will be checked, so have to take dd1 back down when she is better for a check up and go from there.