My daughter has a UTI and the doctor prescribed the most foul-tasting oral antibiotics ever! I accidentally tasted some and couldn't get the taste out of my mouth for 10 minutes!!
We gave her a single dosage (in a straw in the back of her throat) and she held it in her mouth until she spit it up. This is going to be impossible! Any thoughts on how we might give her this foul concoction 3x a day?
pomelo / 5866 posts
Couple bites of frozen ice cream to numb everything. Spoon medicine in and chase with a few more bites.
admin / wonderful grape / 20724 posts
@808love: Interesting! Do you mix the ice cream and the medicine in the same spoonful?
pomelo / 5866 posts
@mrbee: No, just pure ice cream by itself. I actually use sorbet as LO is allergic to ice cream. Get everything ready (3 different spoons- have C help you!) and do it in one fell swoop. I think I used strawberry sorbet and a syringe. Worked really well when LO was younger as her taste buds would get shocked with the coldness.
admin / wonderful grape / 20724 posts
@808love: The problem is that this antibiotic tastes awful... it's kinda metallic. So I'm worried she will spit it up if she can taste it at all!
pomelo / 5866 posts
@mrbee: I see. LO hated, hated meds! She was super stubborn and I had an incident where she actually aspirated the meds (breathed it into her lungs) because she fought it but the cold, then medicine, did the trick. I made sure to put everything in very quickly one after another, with little time in between. Maybe you can give an 'incentive' bribe so she will want to take it. 
It will taste bad but it should go down. Is there another sweet tasty food she likes? Maybe that would work better...
hostess / wonderful apple seed / 16729 posts
@mrbee: oral pills or oral liquid?
I know I wrapped pills in fruit roll up and drank root beer to swallow the pill when I had HG and always had a bad gag reflex.
admin / wonderful grape / 20724 posts
@bluestriped bee: it's a liquid... very metallic tasting, gives me the shivers just to think about it!
cantaloupe / 6687 posts
We had to give LO liquid antibiotics as well and the pediatrician was like "good luck and just do the best you can to get it down." I didn't taste it (I'm pregnant) but the pharmacist did say it was awful tasting and that I could mix it with stuff
She had to have it 3x a day but only 3mL which was a tiny amount. I put it in a shot glass and mixed with juice (grape or Apple) and had her drink it with a straw. We had no problem getting her to drink it this way.
It may be harder if your LO has already tasted how fully awful the medicine is but diluting it with juice worked for us.
pomelo / 5573 posts
Could you mix it with some jam? It's such a strong sweet taste that it might disguise it, and then chase it with something else.
nectarine / 2242 posts
We chase it with chocolate chips and water/milk. Just have everything ready so as soon as she swallows she can shove something else in her mouth and not get as much of the bad taste!
nectarine / 2964 posts
Can you call the doc back and see if there is an alternative antibiotics? We had the same problem and nothing worked until we went in to get another "yummier" prescription. It was so bad that he refused any other medication (for lowering fever) altogether and that time he was having 103 fever.... so from now on it is my rule of thumb to ask for meds that is NOT yucky tasting.
hostess / wonderful honeydew / 32460 posts
DD took some nasty liquid meds a while back too. I gave her some skittles afterwards to help with the aftertaste.
apricot / 322 posts
I'd either do what @irene suggested or use something strong tasting to hide it in or chase it with.
I feel like something sweet and sour might work? Like lemonade, a push pop, sorbet ice cream, etc.
That metallic after taste sounds hard to cover. 
good luck
watermelon / 14467 posts
I give H bites of ice cream if she takes it nicely. One bite for each dose, and she has to wait until after her last dose of the day. It's working quite well this time.
coconut / 8854 posts
I wonder if you could mix it just with something really sweet tasting? Mix it with some honey?
kiwi / 584 posts
@junebugsmama: totally chocolate syrup, works for pills too (our pharmacist suggested it)
blogger / pomelo / 5361 posts
This is going to sound awful, but the nurse practitioner at our pedi's office told me about it for circumstances when you can't get a kid to swallow the medicine any other way, just hold their nose for a second. When they open their mouth to breathe, let go and they unconsciously swallow the medicine. I know it sounds awful, but we've had to do it before.
coffee bean / 39 posts
i've been a lurker for awhile on hellobee, but thought i would register to reply to this!
I used to mix all nasty liquid medications in crystal light powder (usually raspberry ice or pink lemondade) for all my patients. it disguises the taste without adding any volume. it
pomelo / 5298 posts
@junebugsmama: Our pediatrician recommends using chocolate syrup, but we've never tried it.
cherry / 137 posts
We got my son to take nasty liquid medicine by squirting a little in his mouth with a syringe followed immediately with a bite of chocolate chip cookie. Alternated until he finished the entire dose. If we give him the dose all at once the taste was too overwhelming.
grapefruit / 4712 posts
We used chocolate syrup when N was prescribed clindamycin. It worked mostly. However it turned out to top it off he was allergic.
pea / 7 posts
Mix with chocolate pudding. Works every time for us .... The thick texture of the pudding coats the tongue, helping to mask unpleasant tastes
admin / wonderful grape / 20724 posts
@808love: It's been brutal! Every time we give the meds is really tough, but the light at the end of the tunnel is that it's getting a tiny bit better each time as well. Hopefully one of these times, things will just click and the battles will be over!
@Mrs. Blue: Your nose trick has worked so, so well - thank you! I don't know what we would've done without your tip!!
blogger / pomelo / 5361 posts
@mrbee: Oh good! I'm sorry she has to take such a yucky medicine, but I hope it's making her feel better.
pomelo / 5866 posts
@mrbee: So glad to hear it is getting easier each time. A nurse friend and her doctor husband does it the same way!
papaya / 10560 posts
follow it up with chocolate syrup down her throat!
i'm paranoid now about shoving medicine down my kids throats...i used to have to do it all the time. a friend's kid is in food therapy and they are pretty sure it's from having to have so much medicine given when he had rsv and ear infections as a child. crazy, right!?
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