Not taking full dose of antibiotics

[Ca Plane Pour Moi]

She needs to take as much of the dose as possible, although smaller doses should be effective, it isn't the full treatment. I know what it's like - we usually use a 5ml syringe, pin DS down force him to open his mouth and inject it in then not let him move until he swallowed. After two goes of that he then found it a game so took his medication really well - although we still have to pin him down, he asks us to do that for antibiotics. Haven't had them for a while, fingers crossed he won't remember should he need them again.

[mummame]

I know how hard it is, my DD has never been good taking medications. She is now 6 and only ever had ab's once and then we had to hide it in chocolate yoghurt and chocolate ice cream just so she would take it, I can tell you ice cream 4 times a day for 5 days, even she started to get sick of it lol but I told her if she didnt eat the ice cream I would have to force her to take the medicine, she never did work it out. Sometimes you just have to do what works. I don't like pinning children down to get them to take medications, I think it traumatises them and you have less chance of them taking it again next time, plus the only time we did that, my DD proceeded to vomit it straight back up anyway.

[Ca Plane Pour Moi]

Depends on the child, Mummame - my DS has never been traumatised by rough-and-tumble, including when needed to take medicine. Or at least, he laughs about it two minutes later, maybe his brain is wired up to get over trauma quickly? He'd need that with me as a mother.

DS also wouldn't eat antibiotics mixed in with other food as he can taste it still, causing more stress to me. (I also don't like sneaking medication to my child - he is usually very good at taking his medications and being upfront and honest works best with him. Plus he will remind me it's medicine time if I don't give him his medicine - if I were hiding medication and he demanded more medication... not going to go there!)

[mummame]

Depends on the child, Mummame - my DS has never been traumatised by rough-and-tumble, including when needed to take medicine. Or at least, he laughs about it two minutes later, maybe his brain is wired up to get over trauma quickly? He'd need that with me as a mother.

DS also wouldn't eat antibiotics mixed in with other food as he can taste it still, causing more stress to me. (I also don't like sneaking medication to my child - he is usually very good at taking his medications and being upfront and honest works best with him. Plus he will remind me it's medicine time if I don't give him his medicine - if I were hiding medication and he demanded more medication... not going to go there!)

oh yeah, totally agree. I have just had bad experiances with my DD and forcing medications...needless to say we were literally cleaning the walls afterwards