How do you get medicine into your little ones?

[Daniel's Mummy]

As the title says.......... How do you get your little ones to have medicine?

Daniel is currently on anitbiotics for tonsilitis and he has been fine for the last 2 days but today it has been a nightmare to get him to have them.

I'm getting so stressed because he's so poorly and I know he'll get better if he has them. I've been crying tonight I feel so useless.

Help would be very much appreciated

 

[lauramumof2]

I use a plastic syringe from the chemist. Baby Nureofen also has a sort of plastic syringe with it. For the most part, mines are quite happy to take medicine but if not, I try to aim the syringe for the side of the mouth. I also bribe but I think yours might be too wee for that yet.

Good luck!

 

[pilkers]

I use a syringe too... Evie actually sucks the calpol out of it...when she sees the bottle she gets a bit excited!

 

[mum's the word]

If you feel in your own mouth there is a cavity called the 'buccal' cavity where the gums go in slightly under the teeth (should be either side of your chin). I was trained in work to inject medicines here with a syringe as it has more chance of staying put-aim for this area and you shouldn't get too much dribbling out.

 

[Bee]

I use a syringe too... Evie actually sucks the calpol out of it...when she sees the bottle she gets a bit excited!

Yeah Finlay does this too. We use the spoon and its clean by the time he's finished with it and he screams for more

 

[Squiglet]

lil miss had antibiotics for her urine infection and it smelt vile so no doubt it tasted the same, and lil miss made sure we knew that... the only way I managed to do it was to mix a dose of calpol in with it... a low dose... and then reduce the mls of calpol... She only had the antibiotics 2 times a day and at first was in pain when she pee'd so she needed the calpol. We put it in a syringe... and eventually she just got used to taking it without the calpol.

I was told about the buccal cavity by my mum too but sometimes just getting it in her mouth was a pain but now shes really good and just sucks it out then likes to play with the syringe

 

[Clydesdaleclopper]

We have a nightmare getting any medicine into Q. As soon as he sees the syringe he hits it away. I have to wait until he is having a brestfeed then try to squirt the medicine onto the top of the breast just above the nipple so that runs down and ends up in his mouth. Crazy I know.