4 year old needs to take meds but refuses.

peachyprice

With my daughter we used the oral syringe method in the side of the mouth but used to wait until she was almost asleep, she'd swallow it before she realised what it was.

rhino_horn

My daughter recently had the disgusting penicillin. It is foul so no wonder you're having a problem. Even disguised in yoghurt the taste came through. It was rancid.

The only way we could get her to take it was to let her hold a strong tasting drink in her hand e.g chocolate milk or apple juice, squirt it in then as soon as she swallowed it she could take a swig of drink and then drink the rest. We only let our girls drink water and milk in our house so the drink was almost like a treat.

Afterwards I found out that there are different tasting penicillins so may be worth asking for a different one?

Bring back banana medicine I say, I used to love being prescribed it as a child.

toniq

I've asked hubby to get some choc mousse as that is a rare treat, we did try the choc buttons idea but no joy.

Holding jess down and squirting the meds in will have hours of her asking the same q over and over and wont help me when it comes to subsequent doses.

the smoothie idea I'm going to try in a bit when she is distracted and see if that might do the trick as she loves smoothies.

All ideas appreciated, many thanks.

I've called our local pharmacy and there isn't a different version available.

My girl will never say she is in pain so we always have to be extra vigilant.

barbiedoll

I have also used the bribery approach (Coke was a good one, I never had the stuff in the house unless there was horrid medicine to be taken!) and ice-cream, chocolate and lollies are also good, it does take some cajoling though.

I did also try another way to bribe my son, who not only had to take oral steroids as a kid, but also had a course of steroid eye drops, which had to be given to a wriggly kid, four times a day!
We spoke about how horrible the meds were, the eye drops especially, were a real trial, they stung apparently and I don't think anyone likes having stuff squirted into their eyes. I told my son that if he let me put the drops in, he would be allowed to smack my hand afterwards, so that I would know how painful it was, and we both suffered! This actually worked and after a couple of days, he didn't even bother to smack me, he was quite happy that the option was there. With the liquid meds, I told him that he was allowed to scream or shout very loudly ONCE only, after taking it. Again, it worked quite well, and again, after a couple of days, he seemed to forget about the yelling (thankfully!)

My son is now 18 and still moans about taking meds. He recently had a nasty cold and I gave him some Lemsip. He whinged incessantly about how nasty it was until I lost the plot and shouted that there were kids his age having chemo and organ transplants and that he should man up for a change. Didn't hear a peep after that! :rotfl:

kingfisherblue

If you do manage to get the medicine into her mouth, stroke her throat straight away. It often makes a child swallow. Sounds daft, but it's worked for me with three kids.

toniq

Success..... literally gave her a approx 50ml of smoothie to keep her energy up and as she loves them she drank it down not noticing the med was mixed in.

Hoping as she was happy to sip that smoothie ( carrot, orange and pineapple) she will take next dose around 10pm in the same manner.

Thank you for your ideas and help.

Every child as any parent knows is different to the next, my daughters aspergers isn't going to be exactly the same as the next childs.

I am in charge of my child and I am the adult, she has a lovely little life and is a very happy go lucky little girl, she just can't cope with pain and anything associated with it.

GwylimT

I find it easier giving my cat medicine compared to my son!!!

We once put pink food colouring and sugar in his so it looked and tasted a bit like calpol, we even put it in a calpol bottle! The first dose worked, after that he was sick each time. He had to have IV antibiotics in the end as anything we made him have it he was sick so he wasn't actuallu getting any.

I hope the smoothies continue to go well.

jenijen27

If she needs to take calpol as well as the nasty tasting stuff, I always used to put half a dose of it in a sringe and then half a dose of calpol. They smell the calpol and assume it all is and swallow it all. By the time they realise then it's been swallowed anyway.

carefullycautious

toniq wrote: »

I've asked hubby to get some choc mousse as that is a rare treat, we did try the choc buttons idea but no joy.

Holding jess down and squirting the meds in will have hours of her asking the same q over and over and wont help me when it comes to subsequent doses.

the smoothie idea I'm going to try in a bit when she is distracted and see if that might do the trick as she loves smoothies.

All ideas appreciated, many thanks.

I've called our local pharmacy and there isn't a different version available.

My girl will never say she is in pain so we always have to be extra vigilant.

Please make sure you put it into the side of her mouth and not squirt directly in as she could inhale it

Corelli

toniq wrote: »

Success..... literally gave her a approx 50ml of smoothie to keep her energy up and as she loves them she drank it down not noticing the med was mixed in.

Hoping as she was happy to sip that smoothie ( carrot, orange and pineapple) she will take next dose around 10pm in the same manner.

Thank you for your ideas and help.

Every child as any parent knows is different to the next, my daughters aspergers isn't going to be exactly the same as the next childs.

I am in charge of my child and I am the adult, she has a lovely little life and is a very happy go lucky little girl, she just can't cope with pain and anything associated with it.

Great! Is her throat not too sore to swallow easily? I'm amazed that she could have something with orange in it. I was wondering if a very cold drink of something blended with ice cream might be another option.