When they won't take medicine?

[~me~]

My mum used to give us the chewable tablets crushed up in honey. So if he likes something like that or any type of spread, it may work.
Otherwise you could try and put the syrup in a some cordial or treat drink to try and get him to take it.
Failing those options, a suppository maybe?

Hope your boys are better soon, nothing worse than one being sick let alone both of them

[Olive]

Have you thought about seeing an OT to help him deal with the sensitivity he has? Poor chook

[Gigi]

we recently went thru something similar. Ended up buying baby panadol in suppository form. That did work - not pleasant (i kept dropping the slippery little thing) but luckily, my DD was so keen to avoid the oral version, she co-operated with this form (to my amazement).

[Nai]

I used to be the same as a kid so I feel his pain. Mum crushed up tablets in sweetened condensed milk which worked for me.

[~clover~]

Are you talking panadol?
With the syrups I rarely use panadol, unless they're bad enough to need both, because they don't like it. Especially DD2. She struggles majorly. They are ok with the taste of nurofen, so thats what we use.
Panadol goes ok in a strawberry milkshake. Other flavours of milk are too different in taste & don't work.
Anything else I use bribery... coke when desperate. My kids never ever get coke, so it can work. The older girls can finally have capsules, so we use them. DD2 is still getting used to it, with a big drink of juice to make sure it goes all the way down.
I still struggle to take pills sometimes :/

A friend of mine tried suppositories when her DS was about 18 months old. She's never looked back. Not sure if she'd still do it now he's older though.