Pookie is a super-master-medicine-refuser. No liquid medicine is allowed to pass his lips…and I’m a pretty mean dad that would force it down if it was at all possible. I’ve seen professional nurses give up on him.
With this most recent round of sickness, though, we’ve been able to get Pookie to chew the quick dissolve pills, Dimetapp and Tylenol, with great success. I hand him one and he pops it in his mouth.
We ended up taking him to the doctor because he was complaining about his ear. Everything seems mostly okay besides a little fluid. The doctor prescribed candy…I mean amoxicillin. We asked for the chewable kind.
Pookie was not pleased. The texture is very different and it eventually made him gag and throw up. After a couple tries we had to switch to liquid and mix it into food. We tell him that we are doing it. For some reason he is fine with the liquid as long as it is in food. Whatever.
Quick note. Did you know Meijer will give you free Amoxicillin if you have a prescription? It’s true. No copay, no strings. They figure you will buy some stuff while there and come back for your other prescriptions.
If you kid is medicinephobic, here are some foods that Pookie has agreed to let us mix medicine into.
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Peanut butter and jelly
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Macaroni and cheese
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Ice cream
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Pudding
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Waffles
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Bagels and cream cheese
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SpaghettiOs
Anybody know of some other good medicine mixing foods? We have nine more days, twice a day to get through?
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applesauce. when I was a kid the I had some serious trouble getting down the nasty banana-flavored liquid amoxicillin I was often prescribed for my frequent ear infections. and they didn’t have a chewable pill available, so my mom crushed up the pills and gave them to me in a small dish of apple sauce. the apple sauce tasted lousy, but didn’t make me gag like the liquid (to this day the smell of artificial banana flavoring turns my stomach). I often got a piece of real candy or a fruit snack or something afterward to get the taste of the pill out of my mouth.
Applesauce is a great one. Completely forgot about that one. Thanks. I might have to use that one tonight. Pookie likes cottage cheese so we go that route sometimes, too.