Sarah, quite often I have had to mix medicine with either milk or cordial to get them to have it. Paige was the worst for not taking it. Depending on the flavour of the medicine (nurofen is orange I think and panadol is strawberry or cherry) I would mix it with something of that flavour to hide it better - so orange medicine got mixed with orange cordial and the strawberry etc got mixed with pink milk. just make sure that you don't make them a big drink when you do it or they might not drink all of it.