Squirting in the side of the mouth, with the dropper/syringe is what worked for us, too. I never bothered to disguise antibiotics in the food. Something always went wrong when we tried this with another med Julia was on, once. The food got vomited or spit out, or spilled, or went uneaten, and I was never sure how much medicine she took.
There have been ages where we've both had to be present to administer the medicine--one to hold the child down, and the other just to handle the mouth and dropper.
(Wait 'til you have to put in eye drops for conjunctivitis. You have not lived, I tell ya.)
Also? Rewards. Now I know she's little, and you don't probably give her junk, but unless your doctor would freak, or there's a strong medical reason, a little bit of a goody (candy, ice cream, cookie, whatever is not an awful idea in your mind) after the medicine will teach her there are desirable consequences to taking it. Sure, her desirable consequences are getting a piece of a goody (or a sip of a favorite drink--ginger ale isn't entirely unredeemable), but since there are desirable consequences in grown-up world, too--recovery from the infection--it's not a bad association to make.
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Date: 2004-07-06 06:58 pm (UTC)There have been ages where we've both had to be present to administer the medicine--one to hold the child down, and the other just to handle the mouth and dropper.
(Wait 'til you have to put in eye drops for conjunctivitis. You have not lived, I tell ya.)
Also? Rewards. Now I know she's little, and you don't probably give her junk, but unless your doctor would freak, or there's a strong medical reason, a little bit of a goody (candy, ice cream, cookie, whatever is not an awful idea in your mind) after the medicine will teach her there are desirable consequences to taking it. Sure, her desirable consequences are getting a piece of a goody (or a sip of a favorite drink--ginger ale isn't entirely unredeemable), but since there are desirable consequences in grown-up world, too--recovery from the infection--it's not a bad association to make.