How do you gently do medicine? - Page 3

[USAmma]

Originally Posted by OakBerry

"The key with mixing meds with anything is to keep the amount of whatever you mix it with small. I use only a couple tablespoons of ice cream. If you use too much juice, applesauce, ice cream and the child decides they don't want it all, then you are stuck not knowing how much of the mecication they received."

Jish, you are right, this is very important to consider!

That's why I prefer giving it directly with a med syringe unless I know she's going to eat the food it's been mixed with for sure. My dd needs every bit of her meds.

The feeding tube has been helpful, I must admit.

[lilyka]

Originally Posted by boongirl

When her son gets sick, she bribes him with chocolate sauce. If he takes the meds, he get a tsp of hershey's syrup afterwards. She swears this always works.

i would take it if she offered me a tsp of hersheys . . .

[Metasequoia]

I didn't read through this whole thread, but we recently went through this with Dd2 who just turned 3. She had a double ear infection that we were treating homeopathically with our doctor. Over the New Year one of her drums ruptured & while her fever dipped for a short period, when it went back up even higher than it had been our Dr. & I decided to go the abx route. I got her to take the gooey pink amox syrup the first few times by bribing her with chocolate but that didn't work for long. The last time I tried, with Dp holding her down, I ended up crying hysterically for at least two hours & called the Dr. I ended up getting the Amox in tablet form & I crushed it to a powder & mixed it with just a spoonful of chocolate pudding or applesauce or fruity yogurt & I'd give her that one spoonful & then the rest of the bowlful of non-spiked yummy treat & she'd eat it up - she took every dose that way - what a relief!

Strangely, she didn't mind the liquid Motrin, but we only gave it to her a couple of times after we tried & failed of comforting her in other ways. We weren't really treating the fever so much as we felt bad that she was in such pain. HTH

[WuWei]

OT

Jish, my dh has had incredible benefits from classical homeopathy for his asthma induced seasonal allergies. He needed Benedryl and Proventil around the clock, every four hours all spring and fall before homeopathy. Now doesn't use either for over two years.

Ds has food intolerances and I am anti-dairy. This is the root of many allergy symptoms, even seasonal ones may only exhibit because of the constant assault on the immune system that dairy causes many people.

Pat

[CryPixie83]

Originally Posted by abimommy

Did you try letting her give it to herself?

Put it in the thingie and give it to her..she might drink it.

That always helped me when I was little (my parents were pretty mainstream and I was on antibiotics a LOT). If a grown-up was trying to make me take it, I felt cornered and would panic, not comfortable at all, I felt powerless. But once they figured out I could hold it,take my time and take my own medicine things went much better. I remember the consistency being as gross as the taste, so I would have to take little sips and drink water between each sip, but I would get it down. I think I was about 4 when they started letting me do it myself, but I think any child that is capable of feeding themself could be ok with administering their own medicine.

[Jish]

Pat, what does your dh take? Both my dh and ds have allergies to ragweed which is one of the major triggers in seasonal allergies. Neither of them can eat watermelon without getting a slight throat swell and fuzzy mouth either -- it's related to ragweed. Unfortunately, when you live in Iowa it is impossible to avoid. My guess is that cutting dairy wouldn't help the ragweed issue, but who knows. My dh went through the whole arm prick allergy testing as a child and had to have weekly allergy shots for months at a time for years. My mil keeps bugging me about when we are going to take ds in for the prick tests (no way am I letting them prick him with a bunch of little needles) and start him on allergy shots. : I keep trying to explain that doctors rarely do allergy shots anymore because there are so many medications that work equally as well. She seems to find this unbelievable and asks me every time we see them. She asked me last week again and we are months away from allergy season.

Then she likes to bring up that the Frontline flea and tick protector that they used on their dogs used to make his face break out and maybe we should have him tested for that. No, perhaps you should stop treating them the day before we come to visit. And keep the darned dogs away from him, they scare the heck out of him. :

But I digress.

[WuWei]

OT:

Pat, what does your dh take? Both my dh and ds have allergies to ragweed which is one of the major triggers in seasonal allergies.

Jish, we use classical homeopathy. It is different than acute homeopathy. I recommend that you have a professional homeopathist do a life history. Ours chose our constitutional remedies based upon more than acute symptomology. Our emotional, behavioral and physical characteristics are examined and an individual specific wholistic remedy is proscribed. The proscribing is very heavy on history narrative and addresses the underlying physiologic/psychologic issues which create symptomatic reactions. Homeopathy treates like with like. I was a critical care nurse for 17 years and can't exactly understand it from a scietific perspective except that I believe my own observations of its benefits. Our remedies have changed over time to address more deep seated emotional variables which become evident. Basically, it is along the lines of mind/body proscribing, in order to optimize one's overall health, rather than symptom relief of acute treatments/allopathy.

So, no one remedy is right for all allergenic responses/all people. I really don't have a concise reference site to which to direct you. I have read and learned a lot about homeopathy but seeing is believing, I guess. Homeopathy has changed our lives for the positive.

Sounds like a sales pitch.

Personally, I don't recommend the allopathic route of allergy testing or allergy shots. I guess I have 'lost faith' in much of the mainstream medical paradigm. I align myself more with protection of the immune system, rather than assault or suppression of the immune system. But, certainly, there are benefits of therapy for acute life threatening issues.

Btw, there are neuro toxins in the flea killer which do affect little people more than big people. And the permetherin and methoprene last for months and months on surfaces. :

Best wishes, Pat