taking medication

surromama6

My DS is on zantac for reflux and I was wondering if anyone had any advice on getting him to take the medication.

We use the syringe the pharmacy gave us and at first he would spit most of it out, no matter what I did, so now we get the medication flavored at the pharmacy.  He takes it a little better but still gags and spits up some of it.  Putting it in his food just makes him not eat so I won't do that.  I am at a loss and all his pedi said was stick it to the side of his mouth when administering it....obviously I have tried that with little success.  Any advice is greatly appreciated!! TIA

Amanda2011

Mila was on Zantac for several months. We had the best luck of getting it grape flavored and then mixing a small amount of milk and putting it in a bottle. We are now on previcid and still trying to find a way to get her to take it. I got a binky you fill with the med but she knew it was there. I talk to the pharmacy and they said when she is older the best way to hide yucky med is to mix it with chocolate syrup. 

laurenhankey

Our LO has been on Zantac since 10 days so we've tried it all when it comes to giving her meds.  She HATED it at first so we got to the point where we squeezed her cheeks to get it in her mouth.  She screamed, I cried and HAD to figure something else out.  We tried putting it in her bottle which seemed to work periodically but when she didn't finish her bottle then she wasn't getting all her meds. We used the paci to give it to her...yeh right! she wasn't having that! We finally figured out (after she was one meds for RSV) that it's the syringe type she doesn't like (at ths point).  If it's the real thin syringe she'll open her mouth when its coming at you, if it's the fat ones like for tylenol shes tight-lipped or it falls out the side of her mouth.  Yet, if you take the same meds and use the thin syringe she's all about it.  So at this point we lay her on her back and use the thin syringe and put it all the way back along side her cheek and sqeeze just a tiny bit in at a time.  It's so far back and so little each time that she can't possible spit it out.

When she was sick the last time we even tried spoon feeding her antibiotics to her and that worked.  It just took forever. SHe hated the taste. What flavor is the pharmacy flavoring his meds? LO HATES bubblebum but loves the mint or strawberry. 

abbyhannah8

Try and put a nipple from a bottle in her mouth and then squirt the med inside the nipple. Or else just squirt in their her cheek and then quickly put a pacifier in her mouth so she starts sucking.

surromama6

He is on grape which he still doesn't like. I've done the bottle thing but it didn't really work. Although, I didn't think about the type of syringe, or the nipple idea.  I will try anything at this point! Thank you!!