Help Me- I Cannot Get a Syringe of Medicine Into Him!
My ds1 has an ear infection and i desperately need to get antibiotics into him. I cannot syringe the liquid into him, it is impossible. He just thrashes around and refuses to swallow and spits the medicine everywhere. I just had 3 attempts and eventually gave up. Please help me, i am so frustrated. I just want him to get better.
Is there anything i can do? Can i put some in a bottle of chocolate milk or something or is that completely ridiculuos? I'm so tired of him being miserable, i just want to help him get better.
Hes too young for choc milk. OOPS sorry just realised its DS1 not 2 so yeah try it in choc milk and foprget everything else i wrote LMAO sorry tired baby brain
But put some in some EBM or formula depending on what he has.
We had to give DS reflux meds from 5 weeks till 6 months and it was a fight also, i did find some days a spoon was easier and other days a syringe. Dh would hold him and i would shoot it down back of throat so he couldnt spit out. I also tricked him with infants friend which was also for wind and reflux as he liked that so i mixed them together sometimes.
If he is bottle fed you can actually get a a teat thing that you put medicine in as a friend had this.
To get my DS2 to take any type of medicine - we have had to resort to what feels like torture - lay him down between my legs, pin his arms down, put a finger between his gums so he cant clamp up, syrnge a bit in - blow on his face suddenly (all very gently of course ) to get him to swallow - and repeat - he has just had his first course of anti's and of my gosh!! we even had to put our fingers under his nose once to get him to breathe - it was very traumatic more for me I think - but we had to get it into him and nothing else worked!!! It is only within the last week he will suck the syringe with paracetomol in it and it takes a few minutes to get the dose in.
gosh, my other two were no probs at all LOL> good luck!
Oh I can so sympathize with you hun. I have three different lots of meds to get in to DS17mths at the moment and it has been nothing short of a nightmare.
I tried giving it to him to do himself and he squirted it all over the floor, I tried putting it in his milk or juice or whatever and he refused to drink it as he could taste it. Restraining just sucked as both him and I became so upset.
In the end full on OTT praise is what is working. I sit on the floor with him and tell him what a good boy he is and he is so clever and well done and every single full of praise term I can think of over and over. He gets into the swing of it wanting to please me I guess so he takes it. It does take a while, like 15 mins but much nicer than the forcing him.
Good Luck
when DH is around one of us holds him down, or wraps him up in a sheet, whilst the other squeezes his cheeks together & puts the medicin in slowly so he doesnt gag on it. This is how the nurse showed us & have done it often as he was one sick little boy last yr & needed his medicine.
If I'm on my own....yep I'd go with the choc milk option....or anything he'll love. I used to put small amounts on his spoon when feeding yogurt or weetbix or something he was going to eat. Just now before his afternoon nap I put panadol in his milk due to an ear infection........luckily for me he'll take the antibiotic & ask for more!
sorry - i reread and realised you were talking about your nearly 2 yo - not 5 month old - I was a bit shocked with all the choccy milk responses for a 5month old
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) to get him to swallow - and repeat - he has just had his first course of anti's and of my gosh!! we even had to put our fingers under his nose once to get him to breathe - it was very traumatic more for me I think - but we had to get it into him and nothing else worked!!! It is only within the last week he will suck the syringe with paracetomol in it and it takes a few minutes to get the dose in.
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