Just after some advice really.
DS is 7 and has lots of ASD traits. We are on the road to diagnosis and are awaiting a DISCO.
One of his huge sticking points is medication. As a smaller person the only thing I could get him to take was Medised (note this was before the over 6 rule came in), everything else was thrown up. He knows that calpol et al make him feel better if he is poorly but he cannot get passed the momentary unpleasant feeling. I sympathise, I really do. I have a hair trigger gag reflex and have to cut some pills in half and use huge amounts of water and do a weird head throwing motion to take anything.
He currently has toothache caused by a decaying tooth that will have to be extracted ( deep joy - been referred to have it done under GA....). When he got home from school he sat on the sofa playing on my DS (after school wind down/ cave time) and crying from his tooth. I offered Calpol fast melts broken into weeny pieces with a glass of milk so he went all stoical on me....
I have just had a horrid session where he ws howling in pain in his room and I had to get all shouty to make him take the sodding stuff. He then zonked out, pain free in minutes.......
So, what do I have to do? How do others deal with medication refusal. ( as an almost 2YO he fell asleep standing by his bed in his room with a temp of 40 ish as he would NOT take anything and kept throwing it up. I had to walk away to stay calm and he fell asleep mid wail. I then snuck in a syringed the calpol in whiel he was asleep......)