Your tips and trick for giving little ones medicine

[Bathsheba]

We had the same issue with a particular anitbiotic (roxy-something) and our DS when he was in hospital with pneumonia. In the emergency ward the doctor crushed it and tried to disolve it in water... big fail. My DS is not a fussy child... he eats anything including chili and wasabi but no way known would he drink this medicine... he was hysterical. So I had a taste (it was in about a cup of water) and it was VILE. Sooo bitter it was worse than drinking sea water!!! I told the doctor that there was no way known DS was going to drink it. The doctor (who i bet didn't have kids) just told me he had to. Ok... but DS didn't. It was kinda forgotten until he was admitted into a ward and a nurse came with another dose, still in tablet form. I asked if DS could take it with food. The nurse said "yes" and went and got a thing of jam. I told her about the doctor in emergency and she rolled her eyes too and asked why he would have put it in water "No kid would have had it that way... UGH!" Anyhow we just folded it into about a teaspoon of strawberry jam for the week that he was in hospital. When we got home we changed it to honey: that thick white creamed honey so it was well and truly "lost" in it. You'd think the male doctor would have more of an idea wouldn't you??? You'd think that he would encounter the same issue every second day?

If I was you i'd maybe crush a small amount and pop it into something special like Nutella... give it in two lots. If it's a liquid then maybe stir it into some icecream... cold things mask flavour. Goodluck