DD is not quite 4 months old and takes Zantac 2 times a day. Up until recently, I could get her to take it with no problem by sticking the syringe in next to the bottle while she was eating and squirting it in. She didn't even seem to notice. Now she definitely does and will spit it out every single time!
The binkie thing that you put medicine in will not work with DD because she refuses any other binkie except the soothie type ones and won't even drink out of bottles with that shaped nipple.
I thought about mixing it with an oz or so of apple juice and seeing if that would work but didn't want to mess with her bowel movements and wasn't sure if it would be ok for her to get the juice twice a day, everyday. What do you do to get your LO to take medicine?
Re: Tricks to get LO to take medicine?
oh I have an oinker and he has never not finished a bottle lol. Maybe try fixing an oz or so to begin with to make sure it goes down. Then the rest of a bottle after? Unless your pedi gives you the ok for juice. My LO gets juice every other day usually to help with bowel movements.
Stick a skinny syringe down to the back of the cheek, and slowly squirt it in. Or, since LO likes the soothies, poke a hole in the tip and add the medicine in the other end and see if LO will suck it down that way. Of course, you will only be able to use that one for meds only, since it'll be compromised for routine use.
ETA - Zantac is mint flavored and I think it's pretty strong for LO's, so I'm not sure how it would go down in apple juice or other flavors.
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We mix her Prevacid with an equal amount of pedi lite and give it in a bottle. We tried a number of the other options mentioned previously and were unsuccessful.