Thankfully the medicine ordeal is over and done with. I hope not to have to repeat it for a very long time. Some friends of ours who heard about the family being ill couldn't understand why the most stressful part of it, after the fever broke was to medicate the children 3 times a day.
Short of telling them rudely to go have children of their own, I videoed their reluctance, the desperation and their whining protests.
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Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Bad medicine
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Hmm, if you haven't tried this, you might want to give it a shot. We taught all 3 kids to take meds this way... and we started when they were not sick.
ReplyDeleteWe put water in a syringe (no needle obviously), and showed them how to put it in their mouth and squirt the water in by pressing the plunger (with their mouth tightly closed around the syringe). They got used to that.
Then when it came time for meds, we started with the least yucky... usually the pink panadol... they love those. then once they are convinced pink is nice, we would always start with the most yucky and promise the pink at the end - or promise a sweetie...
Of course, there was also a lot of cheering and woohoo-ing that went along with each step of the process.
And we didn't catch them at all. We just showed them, then handed them the syringe, and let them have a go.
It got to a point where they sometimes asked for more medicine... haha. they esp like the brown cough ones and the pink fever ones. *Grin* orange brufen was not so popular. white antibiotics were yucky, and those always had to be followed by a sweet.
Of course now is not the time to try (or you can try with something they like first)... but just a thought.
I find that the kids tend to cry when they see the syringe. So my trick is to put the medicine in an ordinary spoon, and feed them when they are eating their ordinary food. No fuss at all.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, now that my son is older, he loves his medicine!