Tricking my son for him to drink his medicine and his vitamins

Blog:171-8th
Date :September 15,2022
Time :3:30pm

My son has asthma and it attacks from time to time.I had a hard time letting him drink his medicine especially a medicine with a bitter taste.I already tried a lot of different tricks like mixing the medicine to his milk but then it didn't work.

My son is clever enough to notice the color of his milk especially the bitter after taste of it so he usually ends up wasting his milk cause he will not drink it. I tried mixing the medicine with powder juice but then it failed since it really tasted bitter after mixing it together. We don't have any choice but to force him to drink it directly which leads him to cry so hard. It usually ends up for him not to finish all the medicine.

I even had a hard time letting him drink his vitamins. Usually, vitamins taste sweet but still, he doesn't take them. One time, I bought a jelly ace. I really thought its the usual jelly ace but to my surprise, it's a jelly juice so it's more on liquid. That made me think why not mix his vitamins with the jelly juice? His vitamins are colored pink and I mix them with green jelly juice so when the first time my son sip the jelly juice he notice the taste of the vitamins yet he still finishes the whole jelly juice. Seeing him like it makes me happy.YES! Finally, I found the perfect tricks for him to drink his vitamins. Anyway, the vitamins I bought for him were the vitamins for boosting his appetite. I think it's been a week since he started drinking his vitamins and I can see the progress now because he always wanted to eat. Just like last Sunday. He keeps on saying Mama eat. So I gave him scrambled eggs with rice and he finish all his food. One of his favorite food to eat is scrambled egg and corn beef. My son's Godmother(wife of hubby's brother) was at my in-laws' house and she bought a chiffon cake. Hubby brought the chiffon cake and my son saw it and he keeps on saying Mama eat. So I gave him a small slice of the chiffon cake but then after he finish eating the chiffon cake he run towards our table where he have seen the chiffon cake, then he was calling me Mama, Wa(Gone)so I ask him what he wants, he keeps on saying mama was, eat so I finally understand that he was looking for the chiffon cause he wanted to eat more. So I gave him another small slice of the chiffon cake but he was not full yet so I told my daughter to give her brother all the remaining slices of the chiffon cake. I was happy that his appetite is back. He is now asking for food. Unlike before that, he doesn't care about food. All he wants is milk.

I think it was 2 weeks ago my son have a minor cough caused by the cold weather knowing that it could trigger his asthma but luckily it is just a minor cough. I tried to let him drink his cough medicine but as always he doesn't want to drink his med. There was a time that I force him to drink it using the syringe but it ended up getting him to choke. I felt so bad after forcing him to drink his med. Seeing him coughing so hard after being choked. His face was turning red. I felt nervous at that time. Since then I stop letting him drink his med. Until I discovered mixing his cough medicine into Chocolate Malt Drink(Champion Energen) We've been drinking this Chocolate Malt Drink for a while now and my son loves to drink it too. So why not mix the medicine with the Chocolate Malt Drink? So whenever he asks for his milk when he wakes up around 6 am I give him Chocolate Malt Drink instead of milk so I can mix his medicine also when I got home from work I gave him the Chocolate Malt Drink with the medicine on it. After doing that for a couple of days already I notice that his cough is almost gone. I also bought him an antihistamine since he have a running nose since last week. I taste the medicine first if it tastes bitter but to my surprise, it tastes sweet just like his jelly juice so it would be perfect to just add or mix it to the jelly juice. Now after he drinks his antihistamine med for 3 days I can see that his running nose is almost gone.

Ending thoughts

As a working mom, it is hard for me to monitor and take care of my son especially if he is not feeling well so it is very important for me to find ways to make him drink his meds and also his vitamins. I am thankful to God that he enlighten or give me an idea on how I will be able to let my son drink his medicine and vitamins.

Maybe after we will finish all his multivitamins the ones we bought in the past months I will try the recommendation of some mommies in noisecash to try out the Ceelin Plus they recommended.

How about you mommies there? Do you also have a hard time letting your kids drink medicine or vitamins?

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