Hi Sarah my Xander sometimes carries on over medicine, mind you some of them are pretty horrid. For panadol we shopped around to get one he likes which is now the strawberry panadol but before that it was the amcal brand or something. DS is really open to bribery so we always have jellybeans on hand so it's medicine with a cordial chaser and a jellybean (not so good for the teeth but it does the job) There was one, cough medicine I think and I ended up mixing it with about 10ml undiluted cordial - it was the only way he would down it.