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Alternatives to the pink flavored antibiotics?
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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 132482" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Getting medications compounded is a handy alternative. I remember easy child being a real pain with medications for thrush when she was 7 months old. The medicine for babies was a cherry-flavoured YELLOW liquid. She was happy to take it, but unfortunately the colouring used - tartazine - was a problem for her, it triggered raging behaviour in her. She was raging constantly all day every day, so I made enquiries and found the only alternative at the time - lozenges for adults, spearmint-flavoured. They had a sort of plastic coating, I had to crush the lozenges and somehow deal with this coating. I then mixed the lozenges with her rice cereal and juice (I couldn't use milk, she was having problems there too). And she HATED the spearmint flavour, so she raged while I was trying to get it into her. But I figured raging for five minutes was better than raging 24 hours a day.</p><p></p><p>Other things we've used, for medications the kids hated the taste of - syringes. I got them from the pharmacy. For most antibiotics, a 5 ml plastic syringe was the right size. It's great for getting the dose just right and if you squirt it into the kids mouth it hits the back of the throat and they swallow, without much of it getting on the tongue. And I would have a shot of cordial concentrate as a chaser for them, providing they took their medicine without too much fuss.</p><p></p><p>It's interesting that a lot of medications now come with a syringe-like delivery system.</p><p></p><p>It may be a cheaper option to compounding.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 132482, member: 1991"] Getting medications compounded is a handy alternative. I remember easy child being a real pain with medications for thrush when she was 7 months old. The medicine for babies was a cherry-flavoured YELLOW liquid. She was happy to take it, but unfortunately the colouring used - tartazine - was a problem for her, it triggered raging behaviour in her. She was raging constantly all day every day, so I made enquiries and found the only alternative at the time - lozenges for adults, spearmint-flavoured. They had a sort of plastic coating, I had to crush the lozenges and somehow deal with this coating. I then mixed the lozenges with her rice cereal and juice (I couldn't use milk, she was having problems there too). And she HATED the spearmint flavour, so she raged while I was trying to get it into her. But I figured raging for five minutes was better than raging 24 hours a day. Other things we've used, for medications the kids hated the taste of - syringes. I got them from the pharmacy. For most antibiotics, a 5 ml plastic syringe was the right size. It's great for getting the dose just right and if you squirt it into the kids mouth it hits the back of the throat and they swallow, without much of it getting on the tongue. And I would have a shot of cordial concentrate as a chaser for them, providing they took their medicine without too much fuss. It's interesting that a lot of medications now come with a syringe-like delivery system. It may be a cheaper option to compounding. Marg [/QUOTE]
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