you have been given some very good advice here. Despite it sounding a bit icky the PR panadol is actually really good stuff! I have 6 years experience in ED and so have had to try everything at least once. I find that as long as they aren't the kind of child who has the instant reaction of vomiting with panadol that a special technique with a syringe will work. you need to squeeze their cheeks enough to open their mouths and then put the syringe in about an inch and a half. Enough so that you can press down the tongue. If you watch their tongues when you give kids panadol and they don't like it you will notice that their tongues rise to push out the liquid. So if you can stop them from lifting that tongue up, their swallow reflex will take over. If you are gentle but firm and confident it is all over before you can say boo. Having said that I really do think the pr panadol is a great option. Kids don't have the icky factor programmed in at 1 yet and so for them it isn't distressing.
Good luck with whatever you choose to do, and remember you can give panadol and neurofen. Just stick to the daily dosages recommended for each in a day if you choose to give both
I was going to suggest the same as Bella, panadol comes in suppositories (just in case you didn't know what PR meant - per rectum). And worst case, wait until they are asleep to pop them in.
I would vomit too if someone tried to give me the baby panadol! What is with the disgusting taste? My DS doesn't vomit but he really resists it when I try to give it to him, so we've used nurofen here too. It's got a much nicer orange flavour. The only thing is that I've heard some pretty crappy stuff about ibuprofen (sp?) so will buy him the dymadon (thanks Life is Good!) to try next. Hope your wee man recovers soon, with lots of mummy and daddy cuddles and some nicer medication!
Oooh yes, P hates panadol. The chemists own brand works for us, but not the concentrated version (it tastes just as bad as panadol). There is more to feed them but if you are really upbeat while you administer it (ie. "Ooooooh! Yummmy! Gooooood girl! etc etc) then it seems to go down ok.
Thanks everyone for your suggestions. We ended up taking him to the a/h doc cos he was getting gunk in his eyes & had a massive swollen lip from an ulcer...she prescribed antibiotics (which he loved for some reason ), and we tried getting the chemist-brand paracetemol & some Nurofen too. Haven't used the Nurofen yet, but it was the same story with the paracetemol...we had to pretty much force it down him which wasn't nice to do. But hopefully he will rest a bit easier tonight. My poor little man is so sick In this day and age you'd think they'd come up with a better way to give pain relief...humpf.
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), and we tried getting the chemist-brand paracetemol & some Nurofen too. Haven't used the Nurofen yet, but it was the same story with the paracetemol...we had to pretty much force it down him which wasn't nice to do. But hopefully he will rest a bit easier tonight. My poor little man is so sick 
In this day and age you'd think they'd come up with a better way to give pain relief...humpf.
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