Giving Tylenol/Motrin for teething
jvg6909
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So we are having an extremely hard time giving A medicine for her teething. She spits whatever we manage to get in there then clamps her mouth shut and moves her head back and forth. If she does manage to swallow it she gags. I really don't want to hold her head and force it into her mouth because I don't want her to have a negative connotation with taking medication. I assume it's just the consistency (thick and gel like) because she took her Pepcid just fine for 4.5 months and has no problem with taking her liquid vitamins other than making a face. I have tried different flavors, berry, cherry, grape, and no difference.
Any suggestions? I'm sure you're not supposed to do this but are we able to put it in her bottle, or would it totally lose it's effectiveness??
I just feel so bad that she's in pain and I can't get the medicine into her.
Re: Giving Tylenol/Motrin for teething
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I never tried putting the Tylenol in the bottle, because our LO didn't mind taking the meds straight from the dropper (we use the Little Fevers brand, berry flavored) but our pedi told us we could put it in the bottle if we wanted.
Have you tried teething tablets? We had really good luck with the Hyland's tablets- I know there is some controversy about them because they contain belladonna, but it's such a small amount, and I talked to several friends who used them with their babies and decided I felt ok about it. I would just drop 2 or 3 into his bottle (every four hours) and they really seemed to help. I also tried the Orajel Naturals tablets, and they didn't seem to work at all....
We tried one of these. Great idea in theory, not so great when your LO will only take a certain brand paci, and the nipple on the medicine one didn't match hers. On a less picky LO, it may be awesome.
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We use the bottle nipple. (a bigger size holed one) he sucks on it like a bottle and I or dh puts the medicine in the opened end.
Also what Hlc said... Stick it way back!! and also blow on their face... The natural reaction is to swallow.
I wondered about this size/shape issue. We use MAM pacifiers and I don't know how LO would react to a different shaped one.
Also, as PPs have mentioned, I always do the "squirt in back of the cheek" and it really does help!
Our pedi told us to try this and it worked! We put the syringe in her cheek, dispense a little bit of it at a time, and then lightly blow on her face. Her natural reaction is to swallow in order to help her catch her breath.
Yep, this. Except now DS likes the white grape flavor, so we just show him the syringe and say "Medicine" and he starts smacking his lips.
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Thank you all for your replies!
I think I may actually have the pacifier dispenser, maybe I will try that. Also the nipple is a great idea and worth a shot.
With her reflux medicine we would stick it in the back of her cheek and get it all in no problem, this is different for some reason. As soon as she sees it coming she turns her head and doesn't want it anywhere near her mouth, and god forbid she gets a taste of it. I guess if all else fails, into the bottle it goes!