How to get medicine down
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Topic: How to get medicine down
Posted By: FionaS
Subject: How to get medicine down
Date Posted: 26 October 2007 at 7:29pm
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Elle now has to take an iron supplement. I've been trying to get one from the pharamacy in for a couple of weeks but no tricks seem to work...syringe is refused or is spat out, if mixed with food or drink is spat out. I just tried what some of you recommended and tipper her slightly and put in in slowly at the back of her throat but she promptly vomited all over me and got very upset.
Help! Ideas please! She needs this supplement urgently. ------------- Mummy to Gabrielle and Ashley |
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Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 26 October 2007 at 7:52pm
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Does she have anything smooth like porridge or mashed veges, or yoghurt, that you could mix it with? -------------  |
Posted By: cuppatea
Date Posted: 26 October 2007 at 7:58pm
Have you tried bribary? Like take your medicine and you can have a cookie (or healthy iron rich treat )------------- 
 
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Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 26 October 2007 at 8:17pm
Here darling, have this medicine and then you can have a teaspoon of marmite!  ------------- |
Posted By: Bizzy
Date Posted: 26 October 2007 at 8:33pm
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was the floradix you got at the show no good - i thought she liked that one.
We used to have hold them down and spoon or syringe it in and keep the boys lying down till it was swallowed. Maybe if it is in a syringe she could do it herself ??? (or think she is anyway) |
Posted By: daikini
Date Posted: 26 October 2007 at 8:43pm
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At one point I had to wrap Kiya in a sheet so that she couldn't get away and hold her across my knee with her head below her body. I was force-feeding her Pedialyte (sp?), and would put a tablespoon or so into her mouth at a time - enough that she had to drink or drown, so to speak, but not enough to choke her. She was about 2 years old at the time. ------------- Becca, mum of 2 girls & 3 boys |
Posted By: FionaS
Date Posted: 26 October 2007 at 8:44pm
That's actually a vitamin thing, not an iron thing. The iron is from the doc. She doesn't swallow, she screams and then chokes. I don't think bribes or doing it herself would work as she simply doesn't understand. ------------- Mummy to Gabrielle and Ashley |
GandT wrote:Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 26 October 2007 at 8:53pm
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When Jake was is hospital earlier this year they gave me some steroids to give him - oh the fun that was. i tried:
giving it in the bath (at least the sticky stuff washes off quickly) putting an m&m in the middle of the spoon. lolly before and after giving it to a doll first now, none of these worked for us - we held him down and just gave it to him until we thought something might get in. oh, just remembered we mixed it with spaghetti - strong enough flavour to disguise it - now remember you saying Elle isn't eating - hence the supplement,. hope something works. i hate medicine. |
Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 26 October 2007 at 9:12pm
You might have to do the scream and choke every day until she 'gets over it'  That's what we had to do with Hannah recently with eye drops. She was working herself up and chucking up! When she realised that it was going to happen, every day, and wasn't gonna take long if she didn't resist so much, it was so much better!
The m&m idea sounds awesome though!!  ------------- |
Posted By: cuppatea
Date Posted: 26 October 2007 at 9:16pm
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Grab her by the scruff of the neck, stick your fingers at the back of the mouth where there are no teeth to prise the mouth open, tip it in, then clamp mouth shut and hold it slightly tilted up and rub her neck...... oh wait a sec thats how you get medicine in a cat -------------
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Posted By: FionaS
Date Posted: 26 October 2007 at 9:20pm
I think it'd go down in milo but apparently it shouldn't be mixed with calcium and her rice milk has calcium in it. Oh well, trial and error I guess. I'm just impatient to get it in and get results. ------------- Mummy to Gabrielle and Ashley |
Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 26 October 2007 at 9:22pm
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ROFL!!!!! (cat) ------------- |
Posted By: cuppatea
Date Posted: 26 October 2007 at 9:24pm
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You could just make the milo with water, I quite often drink it like that and it is still pretty yummy (hot that is, would probably be gross cold) -------------
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Posted By: Bombshell
Date Posted: 26 October 2007 at 10:53pm
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maybe it is more you and not her? not trying to be mean but it would be hard for you doing this when she is upset....can DH perhaps do it?
for Ella we lay her back, and she will now take it sitting from the squeezy dispenser we drip into her mouth and she sucks it off....even the yucky one! altho nothing will convince her to take tropical pedialyte...it has to be bubblegum flavour all the way! so perhaps ask if the pharmacy can do another flavour of it for you -the sweeter the better...unfortunately!
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Posted By: james
Date Posted: 27 October 2007 at 7:50am
yeah i agree with bombshell it may be the flavour she donst like outherwise try this lay bubs between you legs while sitting on the ground hold her head with your thighs and tilt her heAD BACK SLIGHTY put the med right in the back of her thought i know it sounds horrable big big hugs ------------- <a href="http://lilypie.com"><img src="http://b4.lilypie.com/nLJ5p13.png" alt="Lilypie 4th Birthday Ticker" border="0" /></a> |
Posted By: Bizzy
Date Posted: 27 October 2007 at 8:45am
dont floradix do an iron suplement too tho...? or perhaps mix the two together... or pretend you are giving her the other stuff... what do you do differently to give her the floradix than medicine? |
Posted By: FionaS
Date Posted: 27 October 2007 at 10:01am
She only like the floradix at the show...has refused it ever since though it is offered the same way. She does that with most things...ok first time but won't eat it again. We will persevere. Tried Clements Iron, Incremin and the stuff from the doctor. I think perhaps you underestimate how picky and determined Gabrielle is. She will be a politician one day!!! At the show she had it out of a little cup at the same time as I had mine. I did exactly the same thing at home. No change. I don't stress about it at the time either so that is not an issue. I very much take a causal approach with her. The floradix iron is not suitable for children of this age and doesn't contain enough iron. To put it in perspective, the stuff from the pharmacy has about 5mg iron and her one from the doc has 150mgs. And yes, DH has tried too but she is a very determined girl and doesn't like many flavours at all. She is determined and absolutely loses the plot if she doesn't want something...that is what I mean about having underdeveloped self-regulation skills. They will improve with time. Today we've put it in some water/juice and she will drink it grandually through the day.  ------------- Mummy to Gabrielle and Ashley |
Posted By: shaz
Date Posted: 27 October 2007 at 1:49pm
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Natasha has been on Medication for 7 years (prednisone and other things) and Nutella is the only thing that works for her. It is the only thing that takes away or covers the taste. She was a bit older when she started so I'm not sure if it will help but anything is worth a try. It's horrible when they get all worked up, poor baby and poor mummy. Hugs to you both. ------------- Mum to Natasha Aroha 9/12/1995, Alexandra Makareta Waimarie 22/4/1998 and....Alyssa Frances Hopaea 18/03/2007 
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