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There is one thing i have learnt over the last month is giving you child medicine isnt fun. I have 2 kids that are sick at the same time but one takes medicine really easy and the other is a screamer and a big sook.
There are a few
way to give your child medicine and that is:
*Medicine dropper
*Medicine cup
*Nipple / end of a bottle (for babies)
*Syringe
*Teaspoons / spoons
*Capsules
*suppositories
*Chewable tablets
We all know how to use these methods or most anyway. Suppositories is one that i would have trouble with and dont wish to do unless i really have too.
I found playing games helped my kids to take there medicine and making it fun. But i do have a child that refuses to take anything so im reduced to being cruel to be kind. The easiest way i can get my child to have her medicine is to get the syringe full and ready and hold her down block her nose and squirt it into her mouth. It sound really bad but this is the only way i could do it.
The Doctor told me to do this and i looked at him really strange "like is he being serious?" But he was, he says if they cant breath the have to use there mouth and they have to swallow. I tried it and it worked well. The screaming is still there but she doesnt seem to have the ability to spit it out.
The other way is to mix it with a drink they arent normally allowed to have like soft drink, cordial ect. Its something they like and want all the time so the thought of having it is great to them. I have put 8mls of medicine to 20mls of drink and they drink it really quick bec they think its great. This works 90% of the time for my child, if im mixing with panadol its ok but sometimes when im mixing it with pennicillin they can still taste it.
Jelly is another way but i find that really messy and lose alot as my child wants to feed her self and she will miss her mouth more times than actually getting in her mouth lol. When they are younger and you are still feeding it can work quite well!
These are the things that i have been recomended to do and tried! I hope this might help new mums ect as no one had ever told me when i first had my children.
Thanks for reading Tee
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