Medicine tips - do share yours

[mumofoneAlonebutokay]

Dd, 5, won't take in any medicine. She's poorly now and has a cold, cough and temperature

Usually, she would outright refuse calpol from me.

I've found that blackcurrant fruit shoot masks the taste of 6+ calpol well enough that she happily drinks it.

I also put it in a plastic shopping bag, so I can act like I just bought it, and I'm 'giving in' to her request 🤭🤭

i think you could use the orange fruit shoot with nurofen, haven't tried it

xx

I’d suggest practicing taking medicine everyday until she can do it without distress. Daily vitamins would be good or just a bit of a drink in a syringe. Being able to take medicine is a life skill that is better learnt well before it’s really needed.

Will try this, with a bit of squash daily, as I definitely agree 🥺

For anything that can be taken via tablets/capsules, it is worth practicing. We started with hundreds and thousands, then moved to tic-tacs, jelly tots and jelly babies cut up. Where possible, some people find putting the tablet/capsule on/in a bit of yogurt, fruit purée, jam helps.

For liquid medication, if other ways of getting the medication in fail, slowly syringe the medication into the gum at the back of the mouth between the cheek and teeth. If you syringe slowly enough in the right area, it can’t be spat out.

Let her muck around “feeding” herself with a syringe.

I've tried this and she threw the syringe at me 😄

But will try putting squash inside an empty calpol bottle and try it daily

This is what I was doing, syringing it into the cheek area but she's bigger now and fights me off 😑

For medication that is necessary and where other methods have failed to get it into DC, you can still syringe at 5 even if DD tries to fight you off.

Why did she throw the syringe at you? Just play with them in the bath and use them to measure stuff (mixing paints or cooking).

Oh God she really hates it bless her, but will try a syringe at day

She didn't want any medicine from it, I'd try to get her to play with it but nothing. But it was a couple of years ago so we'll start again