Clicky: How 'good' are you at giving antibiotics?

Zenya · January 2012

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AnnapolisLari · January 2012

I don't necessarily miss a dose, but I've given it pretty late. :-)

Kapalua · January 2012

next time I have a kid on abx...this is happening:

https://pinterest.com/pin/177329304047446489/

I can't believe I didn't think of it.

expectingnothing · January 2012

I've never had to give either kid abx, but I'm generally good about giving it to the dog until the last few days and I start to forget one dose a day.

ali-1411 · January 2012

I was very proud of myself last month when the kids and I were all on antibiotics and none of us missed a dose. That hasn't happened in a long time.

dpdw · January 2012

Kapalua:
next time I have a kid on abx...this is happening:
https://pinterest.com/pin/177329304047446489/

I can't believe I didn't think of it.

Hey! That's what I do too! I started doing it years ago for myself, except I put the pills/bottle in a zip-lock bag & write the dosing schedule on the bag because generally there isn't enough room on the actual bottle to write it out.

Ilumine · January 2012

I NEVER EVER EVER miss a dose and stay within a 2 hour period.

We - as a lazy society - have created antibiotic immune bugs that are KILLING people.

This is also why I do not take or give DD antibiotics unless it can be proven to me that the illness is bacterial vs viral.

ghm · January 2012

Ss...i don't give them at all. it would have to be really bad for me to agree to give them at all. I've given them once, when ethan had pneumonia.

femmegem · January 2012

I'm a complete scatterbrain, but I'm pretty anal about abx. I've definitely been late giving doses, but I have never missed one. I've even brought doses into daycare and given them to DS1 myself to make sure he got them.

Jodi&Joe · January 2012

I dare someone to post they miss 5+ doses. That was the most action this board has seen in a long time! Stick out tongue

Chapter79 · January 2012

I have never, ever missed a dose with daughter. And I always give them at the same literally- literally, I've never strayed more past 5 minutes. That's because I set an alarm on my phone- or I would forget.

true_norskie · January 2012

dpdw:
Kapalua:

next time I have a kid on abx...this is happening:

https://pinterest.com/pin/177329304047446489/

I can't believe I didn't think of it.

Hey! That's what I do too! I started doing it years ago for myself, except I put the pills/bottle in a zip-lock bag & write the dosing schedule on the bag because generally there isn't enough room on the actual bottle to write it out.

I put the dosage syringe in a plastic ziploc and do this! It is a fantastic way for DH and me to be in sync on whether one of us did it without the other knowing and how much longer we have.

shopgirl78 · January 2012

We have been missing doses this last time b/c MH has been forgetting to take it to daycare....grrr!

Daycare requires the bottle as it shows the Rx straight from the dr/pharm.

GinandTonic · January 2012

Jodi&Joe:
I dare someone to post they miss 5+ doses. That was the most action this board has seen in a long time!

Thank you

cooker71 · January 2012

I'm great at remembering the doses, but someone please tell me an easy way to get them (or Motrin, Tylenol, etc.) into my nearly 3-year-old monkey!!

He spits them out every time and is on to my trick of putting them in a little bit of juice or water.

Momma2Michelle · January 2012

-auntie-:
I'm pretty anal about meds in general and abx specifically. Once when DS was a preschooler, he and the cat were on ammoxicillin and I accidently swapped bottles for two doses which was pretty creepy. I switched DS to pills after that when possible.

LMAO! I'm sorry, but that is really hilarious!

kjr · January 2012

I have been very bad about it in the past. The last time I had to do it, I put it on my outlook calendar to repeat twice a day for 10 days. The phone reminders helped and I didn't miss any doses!!

BubblyToes · January 2012

GinandTonic:
Jodi&Joe:
I dare someone to post they miss 5+ doses. That was the most action this board has seen in a long time!
Thank you

I'm gonna go ahead and take some credit for that as well.

**bows**

dpdw · January 2012

cooker71:
I'm great at remembering the doses, but someone please tell me an easy way to get them (or Motrin, Tylenol, etc.) into my nearly 3-year-old monkey!!
He spits them out every time and is on to my trick of putting them in a little bit of juice or water.

Have you tried using more juice? I really have to mask the flavor of the meds or my kids can figure it out and then they refuse it. I've also hid it in yogurt, ice cream, and chocolate milk. Our last round of meds included 2 Hershey's kisses at the bottom of the cup of drug-laced chocolate milk. My view on meds is do what every you have to to get them to take it.

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