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Tips on giving medicine?

m_and_mm_and_m
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Hadley is sick. She's needs her meds. She won't take them.

None of our old tricks are working. Not holding her close, not squirting in in all at once, not giving her the syringe and letting her do it herself, not sneaking it past her lips while nursing. If I manage to get any in her mouth she holds it in the either spits it out or opens her mouth to cry and it all drips out. If I dilute it in liquid she just won't drink it. It doesn't even taste bad, it's sweet and herbal like.

This is so frustrating because she is obviously better when she takes it and it's becoming such a frickin' battle.

Please, give me any toddler medicine tips you can think of before I pull my hair out and scream.

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Re: Tips on giving medicine?

  • brideonjuly8brideonjuly8 member
    Does she have any close older friends/kiddos around?  I saw this once while my mom was babysitting my cousins- the younger one wouldn't take his meds from anyone but his older brother.  Opened right up and swallowed.  Does she have a close older friend that could try to give it to her?  Could be a long shot....
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  • BubbleToesBubbleToes
    Will she take it if you (or your H) take some too? Obviously fill your dropper/cup with something else. Audrey wouldn't ever take hers unless I did too. Now she asks for "men-sin" all.the.time.
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  • AbrooksAbrooks
    I would also try the mom and dad drink it first trick.  Can you give it to her in a medicine cup and not syringe?  That might make it new and appealing.  If worse comes to worse, you can hold her down and one of you squeeze her mouth open and squirt it in 2-3 doses into the side of her cheek so it drains down into her throat before she can spit it out. It's a last resort technique but we had to do it a couple times. 
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  • joycojoyco

    We give Spencer his amox in one of those medicine pacifiers.  We usually start with a bottle and then after one burp in the middle, we switch out and give him the pacifier and he doesn't even know what hit him.  Then as a "treat" he gets the real bottle back. 

    Does that make us evil?  :)

    Is it liquid form, I'm guessing?  Are you allowed to mix it in with mushy food or have you tried that?  How about getting it flavoured with a flavour she really likes?  I know the Albertson's here has like 20 flavours they can make liquid children's medication.  

    Good luck either way.

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  • JezcaMJezcaM
    mix it in her yogurt?
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  • fjarilfjaril
    mix it in something she likes to eat
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  • TayteeTaytee

    Maybe try a SNS? Just a thought, one of those little tube thingies.

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  • m_and_mm_and_m
    imageTaytee:

    Maybe try a SNS? Just a thought, one of those little tube thingies.

     

    Dude! I totally had that thought last night, right after the Great Medicine Battle at bedtime. I wonder how much one costs...

     

     

    I tried some of the other tips- us taking it firsts, her giving it us, and a little cup. No go. :( She's a stubborn little cuss when she wants to be.

    She doesn't eat anything soft, mushy, or liquidy (texture aversion- no yoghurt, applesauce, etc. this has been a huge issues with her weight stuff too) so short of dipping her food in it we can't disguise it like that.

     

    In the end we swaddled her with the miracle blanket, and DH held her head while she screamed and cried. I put it in there a little at a time until she swallowed almost all of it. I cried, it was so awful. But when she woke up 8 hours later I knew it was worth it. But that's another post, soon to be made.

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  • NessiaNessia
    imagem_and_m:

    In the end we swaddled her with the miracle blanket, and DH held her head while she screamed and cried. I put it in there a little at a time until she swallowed almost all of it. I cried, it was so awful. But when she woke up 8 hours later I knew it was worth it. But that's another post, soon to be made.

    We've always to give Mia her medicine this way. She doesn't really  like sweet candy tasting stuff so we couldn't diguise it anything because she would taste the sweetness. Now she does OK if we put it in a spoon but even then it's a lot of negotiating and build up. 
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