How do you get medicine down your child!

[Filltheglass]

Have a 21 month old, she has scarlet fever and was given a course of liquid penicillin, she will not take it!! Two days now me and my partner have tried to get it down her! She thrashes about, try to syringe it in and she just spits it out, tried putting it in her sippy cup, she takes one sip then won't have any more! Tried giving it to her in a cup, she takes a sip then spits it out! Weve got 8 more days of this and she hasn't really had the full 5ml each time we've tried! Any tips please 🙏🏽

Mix into flavoured yoghurt. The Peppa Pig ones do the trick in our house and are reserved for medicine only so my DS doesn't know what they taste like without medicine in!

For the amoxicillin (as it's pretty gross tasting) I mixed it with honey in the syringe and called it 'honey juice' which seemed to work 😂

We mixed it into chocolate mouse and added some chocolate chips so it was like a treat. almost completely hid the taste of the medicine and she would actually ask if it was time for her meds rather than the trashing around we had at the start trying to get them into her.

@Edenmum2 All of mine loved Amoxyl. Would have happily been sick every day of their young lives if it meant having it. While it had a childproof cap and was kept on a high shelf out of reach in fridge I had to resort to hiding the bloody stuff in the vege crisper under veg. Otherwise they would get the fridge open and point at it and carry on because they wanted it. I had to pretend it was no longer kept in fridge but a ‘secret place’, but of course it was the fridge. No kid or man ever looks in a veg crisper. Even now mine are adults if I have a special treat for me that’s refrigerated i keep it in the veg crisper, safe and sound from DH and kids🤣.

I used to go for simple bribery. Find a sweet they like, one sweet in each hand, take the medicine, first sweet takes away the taste, second is the reward for taking it

A variation on this is excellent for vaccinating kids also. Once the needle is prepped they look at it and freak out no matter how subtle you think you are. If you get a person standing in front of them whip out 2 chocolate bars and tell them to choose which one they want, that’s where their attention goes. Their mind focuses on the decision as to which of the two chocolate bars they will choose and that gives you the opportunity to get it into them without them noticing what you are going to do until they feel it - at which point big fuss and prominence with chocolate bars again, which may or may not work so you still need someone holding them still, but it definitely works well for most. Unfortunately, there are some arsehole parents who (for some reason unknown to man) think that giving their kid a one off chocolate bar in this situation is abhorrent and equal to giving them crack. ?????? That’s who you need to worry about, not the kids.

Thankyou all for the replys! I was in abit if a rush today after her second dose to get to work, so I put it in her yoghurt, the tiny pot ones and she ate it up! I know I can't do this every time so tomorrow I'm going to try and play with her and try and make it fun, like doctors and nurses! And maybe grab some chocolate buttons ☺️