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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 400948" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>You can spoonfeed info to her, but you cannot make her use it. Just like iwth all the tools she has learned in the therapy you provided/took her to/participated in, you simply cannot force her to use them. This is a battle that just isn't worth your time, energy or money. She is a prime cause of the reason so many antibiotics just don't work. Bacteria LOVE LOVE LOVE her - she gives them enough antibiotics to make THEM die off, but only the weakest ones. Those that survive are becoming immune to the medications and each time she stops she makes them stronger and shares the stronger bacteria with YOU and everyone else around her.</p><p> </p><p>Next time hand her an onion and a head of garlic. Both will help the infection if eaten and they cost you one heck of a lot less. Just remember this and next time your mommy heart sees her sick remind it that taking her to the doctor is a futile effort because she won't do what he says to do. (you can put the garlic/onion in water to make a broth or tea type thing and have ehr drink it. It really does help, though you have awful breath. Great for scaring away vampires though. and if she has a boyfriend you don't like, lolol).</p><p> </p><p>I confess to having a medication drawer with several vials of antibiotics. In our case thank you could not take liquid antibiotics as they are all either strawberry or orange flavored and have artificial sweeteners that he is allergic to. Even finding liquid OTC medications was a challenge. So the docs would give us adult capsules and tell us to break them open and give him 1/2 or 1/3 of the powder for each dose. We mixed this in chocolate syrup (about 1/2 tsp) and gave him about 1 tsp as a chaser to get rid of the taste. The docs usually either miscalculated the amount we would need and told us to stop after X days, finished or not, or we were changed to another antibiotic when the first was not effective. Like Step, we often missed a dose and went a day or 2 longer to get the right number of doses given. It was an interesting way to figure out how to get the medications down him because a mouth full of nasty tasting powder is even harder to get a kid to take than a pill, at least if thank you is the kid. Hershey's choc syrup is one of a VERY few products that I am brand loyal with. Other brands simply don't have enough flavor to handle the taste of the medications, not on a consistent basis. </p><p> </p><p>Next time she is sick explain that the doctor visit is pointless because she won't follow instructions and let her go to the free clinic if she wants help. If you don't know of one, a call to the ER should help you find one. I am sorry she wasted your time and money on a doctor visit and medications she simply refuses to fully utilize. I bet her disrespect for other drugs (medications) is part of the reason why she is this way.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 400948, member: 1233"] You can spoonfeed info to her, but you cannot make her use it. Just like iwth all the tools she has learned in the therapy you provided/took her to/participated in, you simply cannot force her to use them. This is a battle that just isn't worth your time, energy or money. She is a prime cause of the reason so many antibiotics just don't work. Bacteria LOVE LOVE LOVE her - she gives them enough antibiotics to make THEM die off, but only the weakest ones. Those that survive are becoming immune to the medications and each time she stops she makes them stronger and shares the stronger bacteria with YOU and everyone else around her. Next time hand her an onion and a head of garlic. Both will help the infection if eaten and they cost you one heck of a lot less. Just remember this and next time your mommy heart sees her sick remind it that taking her to the doctor is a futile effort because she won't do what he says to do. (you can put the garlic/onion in water to make a broth or tea type thing and have ehr drink it. It really does help, though you have awful breath. Great for scaring away vampires though. and if she has a boyfriend you don't like, lolol). I confess to having a medication drawer with several vials of antibiotics. In our case thank you could not take liquid antibiotics as they are all either strawberry or orange flavored and have artificial sweeteners that he is allergic to. Even finding liquid OTC medications was a challenge. So the docs would give us adult capsules and tell us to break them open and give him 1/2 or 1/3 of the powder for each dose. We mixed this in chocolate syrup (about 1/2 tsp) and gave him about 1 tsp as a chaser to get rid of the taste. The docs usually either miscalculated the amount we would need and told us to stop after X days, finished or not, or we were changed to another antibiotic when the first was not effective. Like Step, we often missed a dose and went a day or 2 longer to get the right number of doses given. It was an interesting way to figure out how to get the medications down him because a mouth full of nasty tasting powder is even harder to get a kid to take than a pill, at least if thank you is the kid. Hershey's choc syrup is one of a VERY few products that I am brand loyal with. Other brands simply don't have enough flavor to handle the taste of the medications, not on a consistent basis. Next time she is sick explain that the doctor visit is pointless because she won't follow instructions and let her go to the free clinic if she wants help. If you don't know of one, a call to the ER should help you find one. I am sorry she wasted your time and money on a doctor visit and medications she simply refuses to fully utilize. I bet her disrespect for other drugs (medications) is part of the reason why she is this way. [/QUOTE]
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