7 Year Old & Tylenol???

Question

I need help...last week my daughter (7 yrs. old) got the flu. She was running a fever, had a headache and vomiting.

Since she was an infant she totally refuses to take any type of Tylenol. The last form she has taken was the toddler elixer. She gets headaches every once in a while (she gets that from me) and I have tried to get her to take melt-a-ways and even just recently one adult tylenol to swallow or a small Ibprofen.

She would rather be in pain than take anything. We have all shown her how easy it is to small a single tylenol but she still refuses.

Any suggestions that might get her to take these pain relievers would be helpful!

Answer 1

The meltaways squish up really easily...I squish the right amount and put the powder in a single teaspoon of applesauce, jelly, or yogurt, then make sure she eats it all up!  Worked well for my daughter when she had a tooth removed...she couldn't chew them up and this worked like a charm!

Answer 2

you could get the chalky ones crush one up and stick it in some ice cream just make sure its in a powder or it will taste really bad:P

Answer 3

Hide the medicne in food

Answer 4

I think that you can buy chewables for children you might try that route.  you might try to find something in liquid form but i am not sure if they have anything like that for a headach.  also you might try head on but i have never personaly tryed it.

hope i was some help

Answer 5

I have the same problem with my now 8 year old.  I smash up the pill and hide it in a spoonful of jelly.  I use starwberry but only becasue that's her favorite.  I have also hidden the elixir in juice, it's best to use grape (NOT white grape) juice as a lot of children's meds are already grape flavored.

Answer 6

Check with your local pharmacy and see if you can get a pill crusher. Then mix it in with a little apple sauce or pudding. If you're a devious type you can even give it to her without her knowing it that way.

Answer 7

Try to dissolve the melt away ones in a drink of hers. Taste is to make sure she can't taste the medicine, good luck.

Answer 8

You could try crushing tylenol and putting it in a spoonful of jelly or chocolate syrup. Use a condiment, not a food for which she could develop a lasting dislike.

Answer 9

disslove it in fruit juice or kool aid. mine is the same way and he has been he is 15 now and we still have to do it every once in awhile lol.

Answer 10

The liquid childrens tylenol can be put into a glass of juice of the same flavor.  Like grape tylenol in grape juice, or soda.  But juice is healthier.

Answer 11

Just crush it for her and get her to swallow the powder and follow it quickly with a drink. Maybe she simply can't swallow tablets. I can't either, and I'm a grown adult. I never have been able to. There are some medications that you have to swallow whole because they need to dissolve in the stomach and it's best to ask the doctor if this will be required she ever gets prescribed anything, because there are normally alternatives.

But do make sure it's the right age medicine for her. Certainly over here adult pain relief pills aren't suitable for 7 year olds.

Answer 12

hide it in her yoghurt, trust me.

Answer 13

Here are several ways to ease your child into taking the pill.

- Try flavored, liquid medicine for children. Adult medicine is not for 7 year olds; adult medicine is for people over the age of 12. Your kid is right in not taking the adult medicine.

- Talk to them about it and do not make it seem like there is a choice in taking the medicine or not. Tell her that she needs to take it or she will remain sick.

- Invest in a pill crusher or get melting pills so you can put it in her food without her knowing she's eating it. Crush the pill and put it into her food like apple sauce or jelly. Melt the pills and put it into water or juice. Using the liquid medicine hide it in a potent juice (of the same flavor) or in jelly or syrup.

- Try to give your child some 'choice' when taking the medicine (i.e. letting them pick what flavor medicine, which spoon you use)

Answer 14

I would not hide it in food or drink because then if she doesn't eat of drink what you are giving her, then who won't get her dose.  A small amount of jelly is a bit better.

When I was little, my mom would have to give me nasty Benedryl syrup (way back in the dark ages, when it was Rx, and tasted terrible) and she kept some candy, or other treat for just after the medicine if I would take it.  When my girls have a cold and have to take mucinex, we have fruit snacks for them right after.  This works for us.

I am sorry she gets headaches, that is the worse.  My daughter is almost seven and has had headaches since day one it seems.

Good luck!

Answer 15

i would just sneak the elixir into a drink, like something she wouldn't refuse but doesn't get to drink often, like a soda. sodas are rare treats for my kids, so they wouldn't taste the difference anyhow and definately wouldn't turn it down. just offer it to her as a treat with a snack or dinner.

Answer 16

If she doesn't want to take it, she doesn't need to. Either let her practice using M&M's (explain that her throat is the size of a 50 cent piece, so things smaller can go down without being chewed) or don't worry about it. If she doesn't want to take it, she's the one who will be in pain. Make a rule: If you don't want to take Tylenol, that's fine, as long as you don't complain. If you start to complain, you lose a privilege or a favorite toy. If she chooses to take the Tylenol instead, that's fine.

Answer 17

You could have her pratice swalling pills by using mini m&m's. Otherwise, I would hide it in her food or drink. I am sure you could desolve a melt away into a small amount of juice.