Some of the medicines they hated the taste of but they took them anyway as I always explained that it tasted yuck but would help them to feel better.

We’ve never really had a problem with this.

Thanks for the hints my daughter is fine but my son loves spitting panadol out

Never had any issue with children taking the medication required, but this is a clever way of making sure the child takes sometimes bad-tasting medicine. Thanks for sharing.

We were lucky and never had an issue. Through the syring and quickly does it. My sister-in-law used to ridiculously put medicine in her daughter’s bottle with coca cola. I was horrified that ANYONE would think this was okay and would work.

I don’t think anything would have worked on my boy- he hates most fruit and most medicines are fruit flavoured so he just spat everything! He’s a bit better now he’s older but still difficult.

Great tips. I’m struggling with my 7 month old atm!

my son is taking his antibiotics really well so far but he is hating the ear drops, must feel a bit funny to him

For a cough which also causes pain or anything thing that causes a high temperatur eI know a toddler who is given 2 options – liquid or suppository

Some of those medicines are cherry flavoured (doesn’t taste like cherry to me) and taste revolting. (I spilt some on my finger).
Make sure they can knock your hand away when you are giving them medicine – including in a syringe. Find a way of holding their hands down or wrap baby with arms down.

Some useful tips here, thank you.

Some good tricks! My son hates fruit so he was particularly hard to give medicine to as a baby (thankfully he hasn’t been sick since then so I haven’t had to worry) and as the medicine for his congestion was fruit flavoured he would spit it out and dry retch. The only thing I was remotely successful with was mixing it into his weet-bix!

I haven’t had too much problems taking meds with my kids. With my youngest it was at times a bit of z battle, which I avoided by buying suppositories. However my friends daughter (she’s 13yr old now) was and still is dreadful in taking meds. Total drama and refusal and none of these tips work. Her mum even promised her once $10 for each time she took her antibiotics ! Count it out, 3× a day = $30 × 7days = $210 !!

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  • • mom90758 replied
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  That’s crazy! It doesn’t look like a good way to handle the situation!!

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    • • Ellen replied
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    I know, I agree…not good at all !

I use salt and vinegar chips for my 9 and 7 year old. The taste is strong enough to get rid of the medicine taste.

Just bribery and a bit at a time. And lots of praise after its done no matter how much fuss and screaming happened during the process.

Great tips for taking medicine without too much drama.

I just say to kids Iam going to give you a strawberry milkshake if they are having antibiotics and give it to them in the syringe it always works