1. Put on a Happy Face: Be positive about your child taking medicine—kids can pick up on negative tone and body language.
2. Bypass the Taste Buds: Use syringes and droppers instead of dosing cups: Slide the syringe or droppear along the cheek, toward the back of the mouth, and squeeze it slowly.
3. Disguise the Taste: Ask your pharmacist to add a flavor, such as chocolate, root beer, or watermelon, to prescription or OTC liquid meds.
4. Relinquish Control (Sort of): Give your child options: taking his medicine in a droppear or in a cup; before or after bath time; or cherry or grape flavor.
5. Have Them Chill Out: Surprising fact: Some medicines, like steroids, taste better cold. Ask your doctor if your child's can be refrigerated.
6. Warm the Medicine: Need to give a squirmy kid eye drops? Try this tip: Warm the bottle to body temperature in your hands for two to three minutes—sometimes cool drops don't feel good!
7. Let Them Play Doctor: Have your kid pretend to give a stuffed animal medicine before she takes hers.
8. Be Honest: Don't lie and tell your children the medicine is going to taste yummy if it's not. Instead, explain that it will help them feel better.
9. Enlist Your Doctor's Help: Does your child prefer chewables to liquids? Ask if that's an option. Or ask for a higher concentration so you can give less.
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