A spoon full of sugar...

[Phteven]

How do you make the medicine go down?
My little monster refuses to take medicine. His brother will take it if I explain that he will feel better if he takes it but I can talk forever and Imran still refuses it. I can't hide it - he always knows.
I'm sick of having medicine battles with a sick child - any ideas?

[Nadine216]

You know ... dd went through a "stage". She usually take medicine easy, but this one week .. NO WAY. What I did was I pulled it up in a syringe then I sat down on the floor with her and put a teeny-tiny drop on her hand. Then I licked it off with HUGE drama and made a game of it. I was licking everywhere ... in the face, in the neck, on her limbs, her tummy. So as she was getting into the game I told her that she has to drink some before I lick her and eventually we got everything down.
Dont' know if it's going to help you ... might try.

Try giving in the bath, or sneaking it in while he is watching TV

[{sarah}]

The one thing that I managed to get Zander to take his was to put it in really really strong strawberry milk & tell him "I bet you can't drink that really fast" and he sculled the whole lot!!! I think it was Mother Goose or Nurse Dan (sorry can't remember) that reccomended it

[Rouge]

Oh thats awesome. Thats very awesome. Maybe have a matching glass and race!

[Nadine216]

I agree ... that is an awsome tip. I'll remember that one ...

[{sarah}]

I must find who that was so I can give proper credit

ETA: It was Mother Goose - http://forums.bellybelly.com.au/foru...-medicine.html

[Lulu]

Tell him he can't have it.

[Inertia]

The one thing that I managed to get Zander to take his was to put it in really really strong strawberry milk & tell him "I bet you can't drink that really fast" and he sculled the whole lot!!! I think it was Mother Goose or Nurse Dan (sorry can't remember) that reccomended it

Thats how I did it!

Only Sam was way too smart for me and after drinking the medicine milk he one brought his cup back and said "Can I have a just milk this time, mum"

He still drank it though, so it served its purpose.

[Nadine216]

Tell him he can't have it.

LOL that will work!!!

[sassy123]

i put it in my mouth and pretend i am having it and make a big show of oh this is so yum, mmmmm your not having any and she ends up gettin closer and closer then i say oh does jayda want some and now anytime i get the panadol out she is like mmmmm some some lol.
she used to be really good wit it then she was sick and at the hosp they shoved it down her thoat without thinkin she might actually take it herself (she used to hold it and suck ont eh end of it) and it ended up makin her throw up so ever since she would scream and spit it out so now we have only just got her back into wanting it again.

babble babble babble lol

[Pandora]

Tell him he can't have it.

That's what works here.

[~clover~]

I use milo. We did strawberry milk when DD2 was in hossy & after she got out. Didn't work coz she gets strawberry milk. Milo is mine. They don't have it often, so she felt very priveledged & I made it very strong, lol. Hot (warm) milo was even better, coz I'd pretend we were having 'coffee' together.

In hossy the nurses wrapped her & held her squirting it into her cheek, but she ended up throwing it back up after coz she got so worked up. You could try that though. I do it with DS & it works.

[Novella]

My dd wont take it unless she can hold the syringe herself. She has to do everything herself at the moment

[Nai]

Literally - a spoonful of sugar DD1 won't take it unless I am holding some chocolate in the other hand to give to her as soon as she has taken it! I buy the kinder chocolate bars in a pack and break off one square for her. It's about the size of her fingernail it's so small but it works a treat.