To look after the having child to the loving parents twice a serious illness, strong emotions, experiences and desire as soon as possible to cure the kid are added to objective alarms and desire to help. The situation quite often is complicated by the fact that children extremely are negative to medicines. There are several ways to force the child to take medicine.
Deception for the good
To explain to the small child that this bitter tablet or opposite drops will help to recover, most often it is impossible. The ill kid concentrates only on negative emotion of the present moment, and even potential improvement is not capable to force it to take medicine. For this reason you should not spend forces and to look for reasonable arguments. This situation is among when it is worth resorting to cunning.
Bitter tablets should be ground to a powdery state and to dilute with sweet berry syrup or jam. If the taste of medicine acceptable, but for some reason is not pleasant to the child, try to dissolve imperceptibly medicine with its favourite delicacy: fruit puree, jam, condensed milk, yogurt. If drug intake is actually important, it is possible to allow the kid even something conditional and forbidden where medicine will be mixed.
There is a great way to easily swallow of tablets. It is necessary to wash down only them from a bottle. In this case language is located in a mouth in such a way that the moment of swallowing becomes easier.
We try to agree
If your kid is in that age when it is possible to agree with it, use this opportunity. Build the arguments in advance. Press on emotion: impressionable children give in to arrangements much quicker. Convince the child that he rather big to take medicine independently and without tears. Use the principle of comparison with other children who can easily take a medicine. Promise the kid a long-awaited gift for his courage and courage. Perhaps to act not absolutely pedagogically this way, however in this case health of your son or daughter is staked. Remember that the majority of modern drugs for children actually have no unpleasant taste and are simplest in use. Stereotypes, fear and unreasonable prejudices - it prevents the child to be treated normally by means of medicines.
Accustom the child to trouble-free intake of medications in advance. Consult with the doctor concerning intake of polyvitamins courses, give to the kid syrup of a dogrose or other useful additives in different forms.
Force is a last resort
Sometimes the child is in that age when it is still difficult to explain expediency of drug intake, and it is almost impossible to outwit. If health or even life of the kid actually depends on medicine, there is no nothing left, except use of force. Certainly, it is worth resorting to such method only as a last resort, working at the same time it is the most delicate. Try that medicine nevertheless had pleasant taste, stock up with enough water that the child could wash down it. It is very convenient to dissolve medicine with liquid and to enter into a mouth by means of the syringe without needle. Quite perhaps, the child will understand that medicine was not so opposite, and next time will already accept it without efforts of you.