thread: How to get a 2.5 year old to take medicine

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  1. #1
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    Mar 2006
    soon to be somewhere exotic
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    if it was a tablet (don't know how this will work with liquids) you could make a suppository, using copha to the size of a capsule, then stick it where suppositories are supposed to go

    We did this to my nieces & nephews when they wouldn't take their tablets, I also learnt in my Herbal Preparation classes (I'm doing a bachelor of health science, major in naturopathy). On of my girlfriends in the class, swears by making suppositories to get medication into her 3 year old son & 4 year old daughter (she sometimes uses pessaries for her).

    Recipe
    Get some copha, get to malleable temperature (melt & then let it cool & start to harden again), crush tablet, mix with copha, mould into capsule size, let harden

  2. #2
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    Jun 2005
    Wonga Park
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    We have had some success over the past few days, we still have the odd battle. I like the idea of "Captain Featherswords Magic Juice" she loves the wiggles so that just might work! The Doctor did mention suppositorys but I just don't think I can bring myself to do that! We only have 3 days left to go and she's doing really well compared to last time so hopefully we have beaten the infection.