Anyone got any tips on how to get foul tasting piriton syrup into a stroppy toddler?

[GwendolineMaryLacey]

She won't touch it with a barge pole. I've tried bribery and disguising it in orange juice. Nada. If she gets the smallest whiff of it she's off.

Milk? Yogurts?
I like the taste if piriton though. I. Prefer it over the tablets. I don't know the strength of the tabs.

If "tricking" them doesnt work, I resort to forcible squirting in in using a syringe type thing (which comes with calpol) and holding his nose! Sounds like child cruelty I know, but I've only done it when the need for medicine has been more important than anything else. What's piriton for ? Is it very important your DD has it?

How old is she - have you tried explaining what it is and why its important? Sounds mad but worked for my oldest DS (not youngest though!) I did it in combo with reading a book about going to doctors and playing with doctor's toys.

I bribe with chocolate. I say the chocolate takes the taste away. Usually works with my two.

She's 17 months and has an allergy rash on her face.

If it was antibiotics etc then I would pin her down, although she has just sicked it back up when I've done that. Gaah, why is it so foul. I don't remember it being so horrid for dd1.

have you tried something strong like yoghurt or flavoured milkshake and mix it with that. My God daughter hates it and freaks our when she sees it but mixed in a glass of nesquik and she'll drink it with no problem.

Another suggestion would be that as piriton is just a brand name go to your pharmacy (the larger the better) and see if they have a different version the trade name is chlorpheniramine meleate it may all taste the same but there might be some variations in the suspension

oh dear. I guess 17 months is a bit young to explain. Might still be worth playing doctors with her a few times with pretend "medicine" so you can plant the idea that sometimes we eat things that taste bad because they make us feel better.

good luck!

100% fail so far. She's far cleverer than me! Will have to see if there's any alternative. Otherwise she'll look like a plague victim forever!

Boots do one with the same ingredient but maybe tastes different?

We've had several brands of chlorophenamine maleate (piriton) and nine of them have tasted bad. I would try a different make and use a syringe.

Can you ask the pharmacist if there is the same dose in small tablet form and hide it in yogurt or jam? might go down more easily. Or ask if there is a different (better tasting) anti-histamine she can take.

ice lolly?

Neat Ribena? Worked for a bit when we had to get erythromycin down DS.

I will try the various suggestions. Thanks :) Part of the trouble, apart from her temperament, is that, being reasonably young, she doesn't drink anything except milk or water or tea. So when I gave her the juice she was like wtf is that??

Black currant cordial, neat, disguises most things.

My kids really like the taste of the Boots own brand one (mint). They ask for more after each dose and say it is like sweeties.

When DS was on antibiotics I used the syringe and showed him the numbers going down and counted them down as it went in, it distracted him long enough to get most k it down him and by the end if the course he was used to the taste and didn't mind.

Earlier on today my 2/3 year old daughter suddenly had red under her eyes and her nose was red and it was after she had eaten a fromage frais, I gave her 2.5ml of piriton as I suspected it was a reaction from that, the redness didnt entirely go down but she seemed her usual self, could this be anything else and should I worry? Many thanks