How on earth do you get a baby to take Omeprazole??

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Please help!

DD is 4 months old and she's just been prescribed Omeprazole for silent reflux. Only problem is, it's impossible to get it into her. To be fair, it does taste absolutely foul.

We've got the liquid version. We've tried syringing it directly into her mouth, we've tried mixing it with apple juice, we've tried a tiny bit of banana puree... nothing works. Most of it is now soaked into her top (apart from the bit she spat onto my face).

Any tips??

I just syringed it in - although for us it was Ranitidine which maybe doesn’t taste as bad?

With great difficulty!

Syringing worked for us, you just need to do a tiny bit at a time - takes ages but it seemed to do the trick.

Try squirting a really tiny bit at a time on a spoonful of yoghurt/puree etc . Feed, Repeat until syringe empty.

Worked for us with an aniseed flavoured med.

Was also told if you have to syringe directly in mouth to stick the syringe to the side in the cheek pouch

Lie baby on their back, and use the syringe to inject it into the back of their cheek, it's apparently harder to spit out that way and bypasses some of the taste buds. We didn't have to give omperezole, but ranitidine which is pretty foul as well!

syringe it into her cheek in small amounts and hold her jaw shut. last resort but it works.

Syringe into the cheek as others have suggested. I found it hard too! But you’ll get better at it

At 5months I just used a teaspoon and that worked better at ensuring it all was swallowed.
Silent reflux can be tough!

Hold her properly aNd still. Syringe in
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Thanks everyone. I guess I'll keep trying with the syringe and hope she swallows some of it. It feels like I'm torturing her!

Back of the cheek is supposed to be best. Not sure if little bits wld be easier or worse sometimes as soon as they taste it they go nuts.

However, there's a liquid version 😮 We've been given tablets! I have to dissolve it in a teeny amount of water and suck up into a 5ml syringe, there ends up with lots of the tablet left over and I have to try n scoop it up n put it on her mouth 🙈 brutal!

It’s worse than vile!

I went back to GP and asked for an alternative..

Having tasted it myself I can’t blame any baby/child for not wanting to take it and the after taste is even worse.

Syringing in side of mouth with great difficulty while distracting baby with tv or dh etc. Some was spat out but as long as they get most of it. Now it gets put in bottle of milk (the one he always has all of)