Calpol or Neurofen in milk

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I have a 21 month old son who has croup and has his last two back molars coming through. He's fine in himself but I can tell he's in pain with his teeth and he's off his food. I have tried everything to get medicine in him
Tried in yoghurt, choc mousse, letting him hold the syringe and 'give' me and daddy some before he has it. Tried it in his bottle teets and on a spoon with sprinkles on but he either just refuses and says no or spits it out everywhere. He didn't sleep last night and the poor thing just needs a good chunk of sleep, even if it's just 4 hours unsettled for him.

My last resort is to put 5ml of neurofen in his bedtime milk (cows milk) if we can't get it in through his teeth brushing, bathtime or teet before his milk but I've read that you shouldn't.

I know you can't know for sure how much they've had if they don't finish it, but surely something is better than nothing and he'd have no more in the night and most likely not until 10am the next morning if he really needs it. Have any fellow mums resorted to this?

Could you try a suppository? I've done that when toddler was asleep or having a nappy change and didn't notice.

Anbesol liquid it topical. You could try that.

Yea we’ve done this before and it’s been fine, don’t see an issue as long as you presume they’ve had a full dose even if they don’t finish their milk.. although once when my lo was going through a phase of hating calpol they could taste it in the milk and then refused to drink milk after! So just be aware if they hate it so much they will probably be able to taste it even diluted in milk!

I've done this before, but only with cold milk, will he take cold milk??
any medicines shouldn't be put to temperatures above 24°c as it changes the chemicals in the medicine (that's why it's advised not to put it in milk) x

Will he drink strawberry Nesquick? I would mix it in with that.

It’s fine but you have to assume he has the full dose regardless of how much milk is left and, if he takes his time to drink, that he had it at the very end of when you gave him the bottle. Hope he feels much better soon.

Thanks everyone, he would have it in anything else, tried juice and he wouldn't even touch that. He doesn't particularly like juice. I just want to give his little hands a break, constantly chewing on them. Unfortunately all other teething aids have proved useless over the past year. Only 2 left to go though!
Would always assume a full dose whether he had one mouthful of the milk or the whole thing, not worth potentially overdosing at all

I do it all the time I didn't even know that you weren't supposed to, a nurse told me it was fine to do. If I'm not sure he will finish the full bottle I just put it in 2 or 3ozs that I know he will most likely drink and then give him the rest of the bottle after.

When DD was small she was on a lot of oral meds. We would put them in a small amount of milk that we knew she'd finish, like 40 mL, give her that, then top her up with normal milk.