A spoonful of sugar…practical swine flu meds tip for parents
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DISCLAIMER: I am not a medical professional!
A quick tip for parents of small children, or anyone who can’t manage to take meds as capsules. Tamiflu (Oseltamivir) was prescribed for us as ‘hard capsules’. Great – ever tried making a 2 and 3 year old take capsules? Hmm. There is a sticker on the box, from the pharmacy, which says:
If necessary, the capsules may be opened and the contents mixed with a teaspoon of sweetened food products such as chocolate syrup, sugar dissolved in water or apple sauce
Naturally I had no chocolate or apple sauce, and was pretty sure the water/sugar trick wouldn’t cut it. Completely housebound at that point, but desperate to get the first dose in to the children I tried honey (disaster, spat out) and it kind of worked in orange juice. But bits kept getting stuck and I ended up wrestling with Bertie to get the last bits in.
MrSpud got chocolate sauce (for ice cream) on the way home. Dose 2 was a doddle, no arguments, no fuss.
So – tip – get some chocolate sauce in now, before your children get swinish. Because on the day you need it you’ll be housebound and the last thing you’ll want to fret about is HOW you are going to get the drugs in to your children. The faster you start taking them, the more effective they are.
Disclaimer reminder: I am not a medical professional. I am sharing advice from a printed pharmacy label! It might be worth asking the pharmacist if it can be dispensed in liquid form?
quite brilliant! I’ll have to remember this one.
sorry about the swine flue. to be honest: I thought you were joking… sounded so randomly. anyway good about with the chocolate sauce. all the best to all of you.
Swine flu really? Kiddos too? Oh poor you!
bummer on the swine flu! My personal trainer had it too, weird. I thought only ‘other people’ got it.
Kudos to Mr Spud for the chocolate sauce
I suppose it could be dispensed in liquid form, but all we’d do is open the capsules and make a slurry thingie out of it. Better – and easier – for you to just open the caps and give them with chocolate :)
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They really have swine flu? :((
Well the chocolate sauce is great :) It reminds me of my mom smashing up meds when I got the flu as a kid. She’d mix them in with maple syrup. I rather looked forward to taking them. hehe
I have no idea what you said in this post. No idea at all. I looked at it and hollered, “You have my Holly Hobbie mug!”
Oh, man! I’d forgotten all about that mug. I wonder where mine could have gotten off to?