Unfortunately, even very caring and prudent parents, children sometimes get sick. Naturally, for recovery to them, like adults, drugs are prescribed, the restoration of their health directly depends on the intake of which. It is good when the child is already at the age when he is consciously and regularly taking drugs prescribed by the doctor without tears and hysteria. But, if the child is very small, and it is necessary to give him a bitter medicine, then usually parents have to go to various tricks to fulfill the appointment of a pediatrician.
As a rule, doctors prescribe medications to the kids in the form of potions or suspensions, which usually have a sweet taste and aroma of fruits or berries. But only those crumbs that do not suffer from allergies can take medications in this form. But the parents of the Allergic children are forced to give them bitter tablets. So how can this be done?
First of all, it must be remembered that small children should only be given in the form of powder, so the prescribed dose of the drug must first be carefully crushed thoroughly.
Then you can try to give the child the resulting bitter powder, using the method of our grandmothers tested for decades – take a chocolate candy, try to carefully remove part of the chocolate from it, carefully mix the medicine with filling, cover it with chocolate and treat the baby. It will be easier for you to mix the ingredients if the filling is in the form of a jam or jelly.
For those babies who have not yet been 3 years old, dissolve the crushed tablet in compote or syrup. In extreme cases, ordinary water, in which sugar can be approached for this purpose. Do not dilute the medicine in juices or mineral water – this can change the scheme of its action.
If, when taking the drug, the child did not completely swallow the entire dose prescribed by a doctor, it is not necessary to give him the medicine again, otherwise you risk exceeding the recommended dosage, which can lead to allergies or even cause drug poisoning in the baby.
In the case when your baby still does not want to take a tasteless tablet, try to lull his vigilance and give him the medicine in the game. To do this, play the hospital with him – collect his favorite toys and imagine that they came to an appointment with a doctor. Together with the baby, carefully inspect your “patients” and certainly write them bitter, but necessary for recovery pills. Invite your child to show “sick” how to take them correctly – and most likely at this moment the child will drink the medicine without tears and whims, because he will help his friends!
For the sake of achieving the goal, you can go the other way and come up with a fairy tale for the baby about the good doctor, whose name is the tablet, and who seeks to cure all sick kids. But, telling the story about the doctor, be sure to focus on the fact that the doctor cannot cope with children’s ailments alone and asks for help from your son or daughter. Most likely, the child will sincerely express the desire to help a fabulous hero. And then you will need to say that for this he only needs to take an unpleasant medicine to taste, that, most likely, the child will hasten to do.
Even for the sake of such a good goal as the recovery of your child, never deceive your baby and do not assure him that a bitter tablet has a sweet taste, otherwise he will not believe you and will not take even a really sweet vitamin from your hands. Do not mix the crushed medicine into the food familiar to your crumbs – so you are most likely not only not to achieve what you want, but you will also repel your baby the desire to eat porridge, mashed potatoes or soup.