LO has a UTI 
How do I get her to take her liquid meds? She's 2.5 and very stubborn!
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When LO had an ear infection, I would strap him in his car seat to administer it. For the night time meds, I would have help from DH. It was a tough 10 days of meds.
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Is it flavored? Walgreens and CVS will flavor them.
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@blackbird: It's flavored, but she still refuses.
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Not ideal but can you say "if you take this medicine then for being such a big girl you can have a cookie/snack/ect." something she really likes? Bribery usually works for things LO doesn't want to do. Luckily medicine isn't one of them, she reminds us she needs her tummy medicine (but she's been taking it every day for pretty much her entire life so she knows.)
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Try mixing it into flavored yogurt, or put the medicine into a pouch (easy to do with the eye dropper type of dispenser)and shake it to combine. Usually that works for us.
Also, bribery works on my 2.5 year old!
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I just tried the brute force method I read about: holding her on my lap, her head on the crook of my arm, her feet under my leg with one arm on my back, the other arm I'm holding up to her chest.
She showered it out. FAIL.
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This had some helpful suggestions: http://www.parents.com/health/medicine/antibiotics/getting-kids-to-take-medicine/
Ellie is sensitive to red dye, but we have had some success using plant-based food coloring to change the look of the medicine and give the girls some control. Sometimes if you can just convince them that they are choosing to it goes much more smoothly.
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We've started with the grown-up approach. She had a tiny bit and decided she didn't like it. We waited 30 mins before pretending to try it ourselves: that didn't work at all. Next we tried to bribe her with ice cream and chocolate (!) she flat out refused. Then the brute force method that failed.
Now I have yogurt laced with sugar and meds ... I even tried breaking off pieces of chocolate in it, but that upset her.
I'm going to wait it out. I think the yogurt will eventually work.
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So, I had to get the pharmacy to give me a larger dose of the abx after we had a few spitting out episodes, so if you don't have enough and she's refusing it, you might need to call your ped again.
At that age, we would still force, using a syringe to shoot the medicine into the corner of his mouth and blow in his face really hard to cause him to swallow. My mom taught me this method, it works.
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Go out and buy a dozen cupcakes with frosting with her favorite color and her favorite character all over them. Tell her she can have one each day when she takes her meds.
I've never had to do that, but if you have to get extreme...
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I would use a syringe dispenser to force it in, or food bribery.
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@SugarplumsMom: brute force method never worked with my LO for meds; no matter what I did she would always find a way not to swallow and spit it back out. Ugh! But the laced yogurt or laced pouch trick worked well for us! Good luck!
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chocolate syrup. dark enough to hide it and thick enough that your kid can't taste it. ALWAYS works for us.
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One of us would hold her laying in our arms, holding both of her hands so she couldnt flail. We would shoot it in the back of her mouth and quickly squeeze her cheeks so she couldn't spit and would swallow. It was sad but it worked.
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@looch: Brilliant! We'll try it today.
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@looch: agree! I'm a peds nurse and this is my method!
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@SugarplumsMom: poor kid! Is it omnicef? It tastes so gross!
I would give Chloe a drink, usually a smoothie, to hold and have sips of. I never have her the full dose at once. More like - have a dip of medicine QUICK DRINK SOME SMOOTHIE! okay have more medicine... QUICK MORE SMOOTHIE! and it would take like 3 minutes, but she'd get it all down.
I felt bad. It really did taste gross. I wouldn't want to take it either
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My LO is never fooled by hiding it in food, strawberry jelly, yogurt, ice cream, none of it. My method is horrible and he screams the whole time but it's done in a minute. I sit on him so his arms don't move, squeeze his cheeks together and slowly shoot the medicine from a syringe into the inside of his cheek as far back as you can get it. He physically has to swallow that way.
I do it at least an hour after he eats, also make sure you hear/feel a swallow of just saliva after the meds are gone before you let her up to make sure she doesn't gag it back up. He gets a Hershey kiss after.
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I am late to this, but I usually just pull out Youtube on my phone and let him pick from a preselected list of 2-minute choo-choo train videos. He can only watch 1 video. Then I'd ask him to lay on the couch and give the meds via a syringe as he's watching. Give him water afterwards. If it doesn't taste horrible, it usually works.
I do it at least an hour after he eats, also make sure you hear/feel a swallow of just saliva after the meds are gone before you let her up to make sure she doesn't gag it back up. He gets a Hershey kiss after.
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