2yo totally refusing to swallow medicine

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DD is 2.5 and was prescribed amoxicillin yesterday for an ear infection. We have wasted several doses because she absolutely refuses to swallow it.

So far we have tried absolutely everything we can think of, or that has been recommended - being super casual, being firmer, food bribes, pretending to give medicine to her teddies, waiting til she’s distracted with the TV....then as far as the actual delivering the dose goes, we’ve tried squirting it in her cheek, using a spoon so she could do it herself, squirting it in tiny bits, letting her hold the syringe....nothing works. She fights us off, spits it out, wriggles, clenches her teeth, sticks her tongue out so it all spills out, or blows a huge raspberry so it gets sprayed everywhere.

I’m at the end of my tether trying to get it in, what else can I try? She’s feeling absolutely rotten and it’s so frustrating to waste so much medicine that could be making her better.

I agree with the pp who suggested "force feeding".

Absolutely DO NOT DO THIS!!!

My daughter still has flash backs, phobias & a level if PTSD from hospital staff trying to do this to her. I understood they were trying to save her life, but her younger self didn't & it terrified her

I meant to say over 10 years ago

Our GP refused to prescribe antibiotics for ds's ear infection when he was tiny, suggested Calpol and Nurofen for pain. She said his body would be able to fight the infection. He has never had a single ear infection since.