https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Mon, 18 May 2026 22:40:24 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-get-medicine-in-your-toddlers/page/2#post-2211228 Wed, 17 Jun 2015 13:01:23 +0000 Alba4 2211228@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Try different flavors. Our 22 month old would throw up every time we gave him grape flavored Tylenol. He seems fine when he takes the cherry flavor. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-get-medicine-in-your-toddlers/page/2#post-2209445 Tue, 16 Jun 2015 01:34:46 +0000 SugarplumsMom 2209445@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We need to buy chocolate syrup - it was rough last night! I tried bribing her with chocolate and she agreed, but after one taste she refused :meh: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-get-medicine-in-your-toddlers/page/2#post-2143747 Tue, 14 Apr 2015 14:12:45 +0000 bunnylove08 2143747@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DD likes grape flavored. She likes to suck it out of the syringe. if we have to give her a cup, we let her fill the cup with water and drink from it. She thinks its fun. good luck! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-get-medicine-in-your-toddlers/page/2#post-2143697 Tue, 14 Apr 2015 13:52:34 +0000 hellobeeboston 2143697@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@78h2o: if I could get the medicine in pizza I'd be all set!! Haha </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-get-medicine-in-your-toddlers/page/2#post-2143617 Tue, 14 Apr 2015 13:12:38 +0000 78h2o 2143617@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@hellobeeboston: Oh gotcha... yeah, if he doesn't like it by itself, that's definitely not going to work! My little one is both a milk and a chocolate fiend, so chocolate milk is her kryptonite! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-get-medicine-in-your-toddlers#post-2143089 Tue, 14 Apr 2015 08:24:31 +0000 Trailmix 2143089@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Suppositories. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-get-medicine-in-your-toddlers#post-2142982 Tue, 14 Apr 2015 07:20:33 +0000 edelweiss 2142982@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@hellobeeboston: oh i'm sorry he isn't feeling well and hates the medicine. hey if the suppositories work, then go for it. whatever makes things easier. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-get-medicine-in-your-toddlers#post-2142926 Tue, 14 Apr 2015 06:30:16 +0000 NovBaby1112 2142926@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Awww poor J! Hope he feels better soon and hope the suppositories work better than trying to get him to swallow it! No advice that hasn't already been mentioned :/ </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-get-medicine-in-your-toddlers#post-2142917 Tue, 14 Apr 2015 06:20:31 +0000 hellobeeboston 2142917@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@78h2o: we tried giving him some yesterday and he wouldn't touch it!! That was pre medicine just to see if he would drink choc milk but no. Ha. Oh well. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-get-medicine-in-your-toddlers#post-2142877 Tue, 14 Apr 2015 05:27:30 +0000 ValentineMommy 2142877@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Oddly enough, my son who doesn't like to eat likes to take medicine. Weirdo. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-get-medicine-in-your-toddlers#post-2142872 Tue, 14 Apr 2015 03:58:51 +0000 78h2o 2142872@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Glad he suppositories are working! Seriously, give the chocolate milk a try though! ;) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-get-medicine-in-your-toddlers#post-2142733 Mon, 13 Apr 2015 20:44:50 +0000 purrpletulips 2142733@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Taco: both of my kids like taking medicine too. We don't usually have problems but if we do then we bribe them. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-get-medicine-in-your-toddlers#post-2142703 Mon, 13 Apr 2015 20:02:12 +0000 hellobeeboston 2142703@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@bluestriped bee: yup. I HATED (still hate) liquids growing up. I was super young when I started swallowing tablets, and I still used to gag. LO was OK when he was little, but he's bigger now so it's tough. Honesty. The suppository really wasn't bad. We did it tonight with minimal tears!!</p> <p>@808love: omg, LOL. I told DH about the ice cream sorbet and we are def going to try that next! At this point we would rather do the suppository than liquids! It's way less traumatic if you can believe it! At least for now. We will see when he's a bit older. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-get-medicine-in-your-toddlers#post-2142555 Mon, 13 Apr 2015 17:33:02 +0000 808love 2142555@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@hellobeeboston: yep we did suppositories until we came up with the sorbet trick. Had to be done. DH was the brave one almost all of the time. I eventually did it once. Eek!! Gives 'open wide' a completely different meaning. Sorry- being silly so you can laugh about it later. Hope LO feels better. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-get-medicine-in-your-toddlers#post-2142550 Mon, 13 Apr 2015 17:29:57 +0000 BSB 2142550@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>This terrifies me. I can't do liquid meds. I hate hate hate the taste (even if it is flavored). Even taking some pills is a challenge for me. I can do capsules but I hate tablets. I have to cover the pill in fruit rollup to get me to swallow.</p> <p>I can't imagine how hard this will be when I have kids. </p> <p>DH had to take meds as a kid and his mom would crush the pill up and mix it in apple sauce. For me, I could still taste it in the apple sauce. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-get-medicine-in-your-toddlers#post-2142523 Mon, 13 Apr 2015 16:56:50 +0000 hellobeeboston 2142523@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Figured i would update in case anyone ever searches. DH just brought LO to the doc (we heard his daycare class has 2 cases of flu) even though his temp isn't that high, wanted to check in, and he asked about the medicine issue. They tried to give him some there and no luck. He has mastered this spitting technique so nothing will go in, and forget forcing it, he will throw it up. So, they suggested suppositories and DH said its way easier than the medicine. Yikes!! I think we will have to wait till he's a littl older to be able to reason with him more. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-get-medicine-in-your-toddlers#post-2141606 Mon, 13 Apr 2015 06:40:53 +0000 hellobeeboston 2141606@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Thanks all. Lots of good suggestions. Still has a fever this morning :( dreading giving more Motrin... Will buy the bubblegum flavor to try! As well as many other tricks. Thx </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-get-medicine-in-your-toddlers#post-2141566 Mon, 13 Apr 2015 04:28:55 +0000 78h2o 2141566@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Deception. I was totally against it and tried reasoning, bribing, holding her down, etc. My husband felt it was too much of an ordeal and felt we should hide the meds. I protested, but he mixed up some chocolate milk, squirted in the antibiotic, and brought it to her...she gulped it down and begged for more, so he laced the second one with Motrin. She gulped that one down too...all smiles, and I changed my tune. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-get-medicine-in-your-toddlers#post-2141553 Mon, 13 Apr 2015 02:03:14 +0000 FannyMae 2141553@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>my kid is a wierdo.... when she isn't sick, she asks for medicine ("special juice") but when she is actually sick then FORGET IT. hubby holds her in a baby position (she's a huge 3 yr old!) and holds her hands tight, tilts her head back and I force her mouth open and into her cheek. I most often end up with it in my face though. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-get-medicine-in-your-toddlers#post-2141539 Mon, 13 Apr 2015 00:30:12 +0000 PurplePeony 2141539@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My DD is another weird one who likes medicine...the poor thing has had so many ear infections this winter and was also sick with roseola (high fever) for a week so I think she thinks taking medicine is normal. She's currently teething and miserable so I gave her some baby ibuprofen earlier, and she asked for more when the syringe was done and cried when I said no. I'm fully prepared for her to change her mind at any point and medicine to become a struggle, though... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-get-medicine-in-your-toddlers#post-2141536 Mon, 13 Apr 2015 00:00:31 +0000 MsMini 2141536@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My toddler much prefers the chewable tablets to liquid now, might be worth a shot! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-get-medicine-in-your-toddlers#post-2141520 Sun, 12 Apr 2015 23:01:10 +0000 kgbee 2141520@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My 3 year old son had to do a round of 10-day antibiotics a few weeks ago for pneumonia, and we had a terribly difficult time until! ROLE-PLAYING. He's really into pretend games, so we tried on different roles until we landed on him being a ferocious tiger who had pneumonia and needed medicine to get his roar back. I also let him wave his hands over the little cup to "make it taste good" and BOOM. Problem solved. It took several days and trying different methods to get there, but once he took on the tiger persona we were golden. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-get-medicine-in-your-toddlers#post-2141508 Sun, 12 Apr 2015 22:22:32 +0000 cascademom 2141508@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My 2.5 year old loves taking medicine now. He asks for the Vitamin D drops for fun. Last summer, I put him in his car seat and would give him meds. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-get-medicine-in-your-toddlers#post-2141504 Sun, 12 Apr 2015 22:15:07 +0000 yoursilverlining 2141504@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Before LO became a hypochondriac- mixed into yogurt or applesauce was the only way to get meds down. Now LO demands medicine all the time. She noticed that my (adult) Tylenol cold liquid was yellow, and calls it "Rapunzel witch medicine" (because it apparently glows like Rapunzel's hair???) and demands it every night. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-get-medicine-in-your-toddlers#post-2141503 Sun, 12 Apr 2015 22:11:26 +0000 Foodnerd81 2141503@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Taco: my little weirdo likes taking medicine too. Once in a blue moon I have to squirt it into the back of her cheek but usually I ask if she wants medicine (if it's motrin or whatever) and she says yeah and wants more. She even liked the nasty iron drops. </p> <p>@hellobeeboston: any chance you can mix it into something he will always eat- yogurt or something? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-get-medicine-in-your-toddlers#post-2141487 Sun, 12 Apr 2015 21:36:51 +0000 808love 2141487@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LO hated all medicine so we used the suppository for awhile. Ultimately the magic formula was two bites of strawberry sorbet to numb and shock the tastebuds and prep for swallowing, followed by a quick medicine syringe to back of inner cheek and then immediately (get it ready first) another bite of sorbet. :shocked: open wide!! :silly: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-get-medicine-in-your-toddlers#post-2141482 Sun, 12 Apr 2015 21:28:09 +0000 MamaBehr 2141482@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I have more experience with this than I would like to admit. For DD we had to get bubble gum flavored Motrin, because she had thrown up the other favors. For some antibiotics, which WERE flavored bubble gum and I had to pay extra for it, I had to dye it pink and offer a candy cane lick in between sips. Lying to her that it was Motrin.<br /> For DS #1, who is three and currently sick, he did Motrin ok but the antibiotics are a struggle. He insists that they are pink, the medicine is white and I use good coloring, and he gets bites of chocolate. </p> <p>I have tried everything! And, at this age they are so irrational. I would rather give my 15 month old medicine than my three or five year old!!!</p> <p>Hope your LO feels better soon. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-get-medicine-in-your-toddlers#post-2141477 Sun, 12 Apr 2015 21:20:13 +0000 hellobeeboston 2141477@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No. He does not like the taste, hence the gagging/throwing up. We have tried only 2 flavors or so. Maybe I will get something new! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-get-medicine-in-your-toddlers#post-2141439 Sun, 12 Apr 2015 20:19:36 +0000 ShootingStar 2141439@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>He doesn't like the flavor? DS loves the berry or bubble gum or whatever flavor target infant ibuprofen is. He'd eat the whole bottle if I let him. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-get-medicine-in-your-toddlers#post-2141433 Sun, 12 Apr 2015 20:17:06 +0000 matador84 2141433@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@hellobeeboston: ours is the same, terrible texture issues and tons will make him gag. I showed him first (opened my mouth and poured syrup in, gross I know) and held him down, medicine and poured chocolate syrup in. it made it better by just a little bit! </p>