Your child refuses to take a medicine Techniques for giving liquid medicines, pills and capsules Wrong Technique for Giving Medicine Can Cause Vomiting Forcing a struggling child to take any medicine can lead to vomiting or choking.
Using a better technique can sometimes get rid of the child's resistance. Doctors can sometimes replace a bad-tasting antibiotic with a better-tasting one. Another option might be to give an antibiotic in a shot. Most non-prescription medicines are not needed and can be stopped. Good Technique for Giving Liquid Medicine Equipment: Plastic medication syringe or dropper not a spoon Child's position: Sitting up Never lying down Place the syringe beyond the teeth or gumline.
Some young children become cooperative if you let them hold the syringe. Have them place it in their own mouth. Then all you have to do is push the plunger. Goal: Slowly drip or pour the medicine onto the back of the tongue. You can also aim for the pouch inside the cheek. Do not squirt the medicine into the back of the throat. Reason: Can enter windpipe and cause choking. If your child will not cooperate, you will often need 2 adults. One adult will hold the child sitting on their lap. Their hands will hold the child's hands and head to keep from moving.
The other adult will give the medicine using the technique below: You must have a medication syringe. After all, you wonder, why spend money on more if you need it a few months later? But, says Dr. Prager, most prescriptions, especially antibiotics, are meant to be used in full. If you don't give your child the entire dose, the illness could recur. If your doctor switches your child from one type of refrigerated liquid antibiotic to another halfway through, don't store the first kind for future use; refrigerated antibiotics tend to lose their potency after two weeks.
You can save unused tablets or capsules, but don't give them to your child unless you have your doctor's approval, says Dr. Using old or expired medication. Giving a child an unnecessary antibiotic also increases the chance that the bacteria will develop a resistance to it. If that happens, the drug may not work when the child does need it.
You should also make sure to keep tabs on expiration dates, especially with drugs that your child takes only once in a while. Forgetting to update your child's caretakers. Make sure babysitters, relatives, and other people who look after your child know how and when to administer your child's medication.
Not asking your doctor questions or calling when you make a mistake. A frantic parent once called Dr. Greensher in the middle of the night because she had grabbed adult cough syrup in the darkness and given it to her seven-year-old instead of his antibiotic.
Greensher, "especially if a busy parent is in a rush. Assuming your child's medication is working. Your pediatrician may need to give your child a different medication. It's tempting to slip medicine into food or drink to make it more palatable. Some key precautions:. This story originally appeared in the April issue of Good Housekeeping. Any substance that hits the middle of the tongue when a child isn't actively swallowing, on the other hand, may cause a gag reflex and vomiting.
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