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Ways to make toddler take his medicine?
Does anybody know good ways to make my son get his medicine down? He used to do good with medicine, but now I have to hold him down and he still seems to spit it all out. He is almost 2 and it doesn't even taste bad. He has an ear infection and is getting a sinus infection and really needs the medicine because he's been sick over 3 weeks and I'm due in 18 days and want him to feel better especially before his sister decides to come. I've tried offering him a sucker if he takes it but he doesn't care. I've thought about mixing it with chocolate milk because its only 3ml but I'm worried he won't drink it. Any suggestions? Thank you!
5 Answers
- ?Lv 69 years ago
I don't think you're supposed to mix medicine with milk or juice, and there should be some sort of flavor the pharmacy can add to change the taste. I used to have to hold my daughter down, pinch her cheeks, and hold her mouth until she swallowed to get her to take whatever I was giving her. My mother talks about rolling my brother up in a towel to keep his arms at his side. The link is to a medicine dispenser for kids. Stinks that you're wrestling this one at 38 weeks....
Source(s): http://avatheelephant.com/ - 9 years ago
No, If I were you I'd mix it! If it doesn't taste bad he'll never know. He just sounds like he's being a fussy(: kids go through a stage where they refuse everything and love to say no. I'd put it in chocolate milk or juice
- starwberryLv 59 years ago
If its fruit flavored you're better off mixing it in juice. He's just trying to assert some independence. Its natural at this age.
- 9 years ago
Do what I do with my puppies, mix it with something, when my puppy takes a pill, i cover it in peanut buter or something, but for your son, mixx it with his favorite juice, or chocolate milk or something.:)
