How to get Tamiflu in a 3.5 year old

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Have tried

Yoghurt

In with Calpol

Mixed up in food - shepherds pie and a sandwich

bribery to take and then ahve chocolate

Each time she has either spat it out or been sick.

Anyone managed to get a fussy eater to take without problems?

I presume it is a tablet?

How about crushing it up into a fine powder, mixing it with a bit of runny yogurt and then using a medicine injector to squirt it into the back of her mouth.

we found a teaspoon of jam.. make a dip in the jam.. pour the powder from the capsule into the dip ( don't mix it) and cover it with a lid of jam.. and tell them to just swallow ( dd is 6 so quite a bit older).. this seems to coat the powder sufficiantly to hide the taste.

HTH

Lots and lots (not the recommended 10ml) but more like 30ml of Marks and Spencer Belgian chocolate dessert sauce, mix the 3 ml solution (that is what we were given, oral solution) very well through the chocolate and try to give all and bribe with present afterwards.

Impressed with the jam technique

After trying dd (5) to take it with jam, chocolate and apple juice, the best way we have found is to mix it with 5ml of water and some sugar and put it in a syringe and then bribe her with Hello Kitty sweets! It was the only one she hasn't thrown up or spat out!

I've just been through the horrible trauma of trying to get a teaspoon of tamiflu-laced yoghurt into dd (just 3). After a lot of cajoling, a lot of bribing with chocolate buttons (doesn't really work because she's off her food anyway), a stern talking-to and unashamed begging, I had to resort to forcing it in, which terrified her to the point where she wet herself all over me and the sofa. So I'm there drenched in wee, us both sobbing uncontrollably, still trying to get the bleeding spoon in.

And I've got do this twice a day for five days? [opens gin]

My DD (13) is on Tamiflu and she was nearly sick the first time I gave it to her. We tried yogurt and a small spoon of hot chocolate but she could still taste it. In the end I made up some chocolate butter cream and mixed it in with that and she says it's far more palatable.

i managed to get the first dose into my ds (3.5) mixed in with a spoonful of nutella. despite being a chocaholic it was still extremely hard to get him to swallow it as he had no appetite (was very poorly) and the strong tamiflu taste still came through. he was absolutely beside himself at the sight of the second dose (this time mixed with mashed up banana and honey, another favourite food) and there was no way he would take it. to our utter surprise he ended up swallowing a capsule whole with water (they are quite tiny and i guess he has seen me swallow my vitamins in the morning but still very . he was very nauseous after the second dose and was violently sick after the third (also swallowed whole) with hours of stomach cramps so we gave up on it. he is tired but almost fully recovered now. (unlike my very poorly 9 month old ds2 )

To reduce the risk of nausea it might help to give some food in advance (crackers, bread sticks, anything they'll eat). I found that the only way to hide the taste was really to use lots of chocolate sauce (small cup full, petit filous size) for 3 ml tamiflu.

We are diluting sugar in apple juice to make what is almost a syrup, before adding the powder, stirring frantically and then getting DS to take it.

He is 2.9.

It is vile stuff.

ds just 4 ....we got first dose down in 'mixed tropical friut juice' after promising a cup of it after to wash down... 2nd dose harder so ended up mixing with golden syrup......followed by cup of juice & chocolate finger biscuit he was off food but choc fingers big hit..
luckily he felt better quite quickly so even though had to bribe could stick to mixed juice (sweeter i think as orange mango plneapple) tried apple and orange on its own and they didn't work.. and chocolate finger

We were going mad with lack of success, with 3.75yo DD. We have the Tamiflu capsules that you have to open to get the powder out. We tried:

1. Mixed in yoghurt - fail
2. Mixed in Cadbury's chocolate yoghurt - fail
3. Mixed in milk in a medicine syringe - big fail (easier to spit out)
4. Mixed in strawberry jam and forced in - big fail, plus very distressing for everyone

The stuff is so bitter, and DD is not stupid - she asks what medicine is it? - she knows about Calpol, Nurofen, antibiotics, cough mix, and "the really horrible medicine".

Oh, and bribery was a total fail - even comedy scale like "you can have a whole bag of chocolate buttons" etc.

Then this morning we tried decanting the liquid out of a cheap tin of mixed fruit cocktail (in syrup obviously!) and emptied the powder into a 5ml medicine syringe, filled it up with some syrup and shook for a minute or so. You could see the particles so we left it for 5 mins, and it seemed to dissolve.

Then we gave it to her and she drank it slowly, absolutely no problem at all...!

Oh, BTW, we told her (truthfully-ish) that this was a new version of the bad medicine, that didn't taste bad, and she bought it (luckily it genuinely didn't seem to taste bad!)

Hope that may help someone to avoid the severe problems we had.

Dose 3 was the worst of all for us - tried it in a teaspoon of Nutella. Absolute hysterics - she spat it out and then threw up everywhere. God knows how I'm going to keep this up.

I like the fruit cocktail idea, but i'm not sure it will work - dd only likes water and milk and won't touch juice or any other drink (v. fussy). Will give it a go tomorrow.

Having said that, today dd's temperature went back to normal and she started eating again, so maybe it isn't SF she's had. Am just waiting for a call back from NHS Direct to see if we should just knock the tamiflu on the head (fingers crossed).

Its awful stuff, we had the suspension and I happened to lick the syringe after a dose to see what all the fuss was about and nearly threw up myself, its truly foul. I found just having her hold her nose and aiming at the back of throat in a quick shot and a large glass of juice after worked for my 4 year old but my 2.5 year old wasn't having any of it even in small drops he kept spitting it out and I kept shoving it back in and blowing in his face (which apparently makes them swallow). He missed the last days dose as it was just so traumatic and he was feeling better by then.

it tastes fowl really really vile. We have 2 little girls to get it into one of whom point blank refused it after her first dose even with huge promises of gifts/treats due to desperation to get it in her. We hid it in her icecream which tends to slip down the throat in lumps and she never even realised, we covered it in chocolate sauce too.

My younger little girl was taking it in a syringe mixed with 5ml of choc sauce and squirted in her cheek so didn't touch her tounge on the promise of a treat, we continued to do this as we were worried if she noticed it in her icecream she may give our game away for getting it in our older child!x

Glad to see that we are not alone. So far did the yoghurt one by dipping the spoon in first then the powder then yoghurt on top. D (2yrs 11months) took it and said yuck and now won't touch any yoghurts. 2nd dose harder tried to put it in her super noodles but it was detected straight away. I tried this and it was very bitter so tried it with Tomato ketchup and the sweetness counter acts the "yuck". May try this again tomorrow. Will let you know what happens

We mixed it in a small amount of nutella and it worked with DD2 (2 years old). We gave her a spoon of nutella on its own and then the one mixed with Tamiflu and followed that with another one on it own.

You need to prepare the spoons out of sight.

My 1.5 year old was throwing up the tamiflu and would refuse it in everything. What finally worked was putting it on a spoonful of vanilla ice cream topped with thick (soft) caramel. She didn't love it, but it definitely got it down and it stayed down. The Tamiflu got her better very quickly. Good Luck!

What worked for us was to mix with M&S Belgian Chocolate syrup (petit filous size pot full) and then give with tea spoon with sips of water in between and bread stick - sickly sweet but it did work!!!

And she was given it profylactically and she ddid not get ill (happened during the Summer hhols, my DH had confirmed swine flu and was aquite ill until he got the tamiflu).

Good luck

We mixed the contnts of the capsule with a tsp of icing sugar and a tsp of water then gave it in an oral syinge. We had no problem with that after failing with yoghurt, juice etc.

We just scored with hot chocolate. I used a full envelope of powder with 1/3 of the hot water. I put marshmallows on top!!!!