ds2 is 2.5 years old. i simply cannot get medicine into him. i try holding him down and syringing it into his mouth but he refuses to swallow and spits it all back out. it is quite distressing for both of us.
ds2 is 2.5 years old. i simply cannot get medicine into him. i try holding him down and syringing it into his mouth but he refuses to swallow and spits it all back out. it is quite distressing for both of us.
We used jam in hospital... Mix it in and pop it on a spoon.
What are you trying to give?
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my LO spits out panadol and a some others. she likes brauers stuff. and i found another one (for pain/fever) that she will take.
can you get an alternative? is it a long term thing? if it was needed and short term, i would go the wrestle, squirt and hope some goes down. if it's needed and long term, can you try bribery or disguising it in food/drink?
:hug: to you both, no advice here but i hope J man is better asap xx
We have no luck with syringes at all - but the spoon works well. And the post-medicine chocolate bribe too.
If it is gluggy medicine then adding a little water may help too.
A lot of this is about control - your little one probably resents being forced to do something, especially something yucky. Try putting the medicine on a very big spoon on the table, and putting the treat next to it and telling him that when he has swallowed all the medicine he can have the treat. And agree with him that its yucky - we call DS's antibiotics "horribus medicine" because that's what he christened it.
I had a similar problem with my DS and teeth cleaning. I used to have to swaddle him in a blanket and sit on him to clean his teeth. But now he is big enough to "do it himself" he does it, and then I just do a quick clean afterwards - no major fights any more.
DD3 won't take Neurofen so I put it in her juice and she's non the wiser. Hope you work something out, hugs.
Regards,
Dianne
my DD1 got easier when she was about 4 yrs old, but before that age it was very difficult - pinning her down was the only way and persisting. When she got older, she learnt it was over quickly and yes, we used treats afterwards. Good luck.
Does he have a dummy?
Have you seen the tommee tippee (I think) product they is a medicine thingy.
I will PM you the link.. Ds2 used to have a lot of medication when he was a newborn and this worked great and we continued buying it for panadol ect. We don't need them anymore though..
oh man i am in this boat right now with my 1 year old!!
she hates the stuff (dont blame her lol). but her fever is too high for comfort and I want to help bring it down for a few hours relief for her but she just spits it all out again....so distressing, i hear you on that one G xx
We have to hide DD's medicine in her drink.
We have at times (when the medicine has been yucky tasting) force the kids to take it. DH will hold them down so they cann't move, I will force the syring in their mouth. Now the have to be laying on their back for this, and you have to dribble it out of the syringe slowly so there isn't enough at anyone time to spit it out from that position - you also need to make sure that the syringe stays between their teeth the whole time (if they can close their teeth or their mouth, they will still be able to spit it out, even the small quantities). It can be a slow torturous process, but sometimes you just don't have any other choice. Also be prepared for some spluttering, but provided you only put very small squirts in at a time, they shouldn't choke.
My younger DS used to projectile vomit ANY medicine that I tried to give him, including pred which he HAD to have for his asthma.
So on the advice of his doctors, and the chemist, from about the age of 18 months (when he was the size of a three year old) he has had tablets, usually half the adult dose (in accordance with the recommendations of the dr/chemist), in a teaspoon of AktaVite/Milo. Raw. It's all chocolatey which hides the taste, and he won't spit it out.
Check with your dr/chemist if there is some tablet or other method. Otherwise there's always suppositories...
We mix medicines with a bit of water or milk in a cup and give him a straw, he gulps it all down, worst case we add a dash of cordial to the water or a small amount of Milo to the milk, but make sure he sees us add it and make a big deal of it like 'Oooo, yummy!' etc and there's never a drama.. He doesn't mind the taste of the nurofen and will suck that out of the syringe himself but all others we have to mix..
thanks for the suggestions. i don't think theres any easy solution with this kid. he is extremely strong willed and defiant. explaining it to him would no nothing. he does not go for bribes. the spoon thing would never work with him...
i also don't understand how you are supposed to get 9ml of panadol into them on a spoon? seems like an awful lot to me.
arrrg, idk....i really don't know what to do anymore.
paracetemol suppository
That. It's less traumatic than it sounds.:
Or mix it with something insanely sweet like a desert spoon of ice-cream to hide the flavour.
hun i use Dymadon paracetamol and for 12-14kg its only 3.5-4ml, much better than 9ml
ginger, it sounds like my DS is very similar to yours. i've tried mixing things in drinks/yoghurt/food & somehow he can just sense it. even if i've gone to great pains to hide it while he's nowhere near.
unfortunately we've mostly resorted to the holding him down & i hope that as he gets older, he'll understand the concept of a treat afterwards. i have also used the baby panadol as well as it's a far smaller dose. the chemist told me there wasn't a huge difference, esp not at that age, more just one is a bigger amount for them to take. no idea if that's completely accurate though.
:hug: it's not a nice process, that's for sure.
ok, thanks ladies
the dymadon one sounds a lot better. will ask for it at the chemist.
can you get the suppository over the counter?
i am trying to get antibiotics into him at the moment. total nightmare.
i ended up putting it in a small bottle of juice but i think he knows it's in there and won't finish the bottle.
Yeah, you can get them over the counter. but maybe ring ahead just in case they don't have it.
As for the spoon - if I have to I use the measuring tablespoon!
Can you give him something strong tasting beforehand (e.g. dark chocolate) and then try?
Some of the antibiotics must taste vile - we are having to use bigger bribes to get cephalexin in than we used to need for amoxil.
The doctor mentioned to me that in some cases you can get the chemist to make it up with a different flavour - don't know if that would help.
Had to mix it in a thick shake for DD1. Now she loves medicine though, wants it whenever DD2 has it whether she needs it or not. Go figure.
We found what helped us was childcare. DD2 has an awesome carer that she really clicks with, she managed to get her to take medicine (she had a horrid UTI at the time) and since then she has been brilliant with it. We do have to add water to some types, especially if they are quite thick. I have no idea what she did, but it was magic!
The infant Panadol requires you to use a smaller dose than the childrens one. Work out what the recommended dose is in mls/kg and titrate to your DS's weight. At least you won't have to get so much in, 9mls is a lot!!
My DS vomits on contact with Panadol and can't have ibuprofen so I use the suppositories for him. It's easy, but make sure you use a tiny bit of KY or a similar lube with them!
We use dymadon here ds would spit out panadol so now we just use dymadon and send an extra bottle with him to cc in case he needs some during the day
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yeah, i think dymadon is the one that DD will take too.
Rectal panadol def works.
If you can go down the tablet path, you can grind it up and mix it with something like soft copha, make it into a small ball and use it as a suppository.
Experiment with different brands as they taste different. Also, as nickle said, if you get the infant sort (and work it out based on J's weight) it will be a smaller amount of medicine to take. I used to get more success by syringing it into her cheek, followed by a lolly or spoon of honey bribe.
I feel your pain Ginger!!!!
Ds has just needed to start antibiotics and he is flatly refusing to take them. He happily takes nurophen, but the taste of this stuff is just so gross he wont take it!! And whats worse is that with these antibiotics he has to have them on an empty stomach - so we cant just mix it in a drink and hope he drinks it (even though he isnt, like you say he knows and just wont drink it!!!)
We tried pinning him down this morning, and he spat it out, I just couldnt get the syringe in right. So far we have wasted four doses of th emedicine in just trying to actually get him to consume one dose!! :wall:
I think i might need to go back to the dr and try for some tablets!!!!
i just wanted to update this thread for anyone who is going through the same thing we are.
i ended up taking ds2 back to the dr as i knew we had not been able to get the whole course of ABs into him- no matter what we tried, it did not work.
the dr prescribed us a second course of stronger Abs- this time in tablet form. i have been melting a couple of caramel buds (like white chocolate drops) in the microwave until they are soft and then squashing the tablet into the melted chocolate and sticking two buds together and letting it reform itms? then once it is hard again, i have been giving him a little bowl with 3 caramel buds (including the one with the tablet in it) and watching him eat them. so far so good!!!!
good work G!!
Ingenious!!
Last night I had Marta vomit all her panadol up from freaking out about it so much :(
Wow Ginger that's an amazing trick! Well done. xxx
I can't take all the credit :) it was actually jungle mums idea. I didn't think it would work but I gave it a shot and so far I've managed to get two doses into him!