Tricks for getting a 6mo to take medicine?

[water*drop]

DS is on yet another round of antibiotics, and he's getting to be quite good at spitting it out. We stick the syringe back as far as we can, but he immediately starts blowing raspberries and spits it all out. We've tried distracting him with DD dangling toys above him and trying to get him to smile, which worked for a while, but now that he's figured out the blowing raspberries trick, none of our old tricks work. 

Any suggestions? 

[jeaniebueller]

Lay him on the ground (sometimes this is a two person job), hold his head still and squirt it into the side of his cheek, avoiding getting it on his tongue. Hold his head still until he swallows it. I dispense the medication in small increments to avoid the spit out factor as well.

[soozy87]

Put it in a bottle nipple and let him suck it out.

[gibbinator]

Does it taste bad? Can the pharmacy reflavour it?

[smock]

We would hold her reclined, and squirt the medicine slowly into her cheek, usually while she screamed. After each squirt, we would blow a little air at her face to make her swallow. We still use the air blowing technique at 1.5 when she's fighting medicine (she's been getting 2 doses of iron a day since she was 12 mo, so we are getting to be experts at this one).

[oswin]

Hold his jaw open with your fingers on his cheeks so he can't blow or spit it out. It was the only thing that worked with DD until we realized recently that she could be bribed with a chocolate chip.

[pooh8402]

Nov 23, 2015 9:29:21 GMT -5 jeaniebueller said:

Lay him on the ground (sometimes this is a two person job), hold his head still and squirt it into the side of his cheek, avoiding getting it on his tongue. Hold his head still until he swallows it. I dispense the medication in small increments to avoid the spit out factor as well.

This is what I do to give E his reflux medicine, and it's how I give medicines to my patients at work. (Not holding them on the ground, though).

[water*drop]

Nov 23, 2015 10:03:48 GMT -5 gibbinator said:

Does it taste bad? Can the pharmacy reflavour it?

This is totally flameful, but we've been mixing it with strawberry syrup (you know, the stuff that's all HFCS...it's awesome parenting, I know). Our pharmacy didn't have flavoring available. We're switching pharmacies for the kids now that we know that...