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How to help my 2.5-year-old daughter take her medicine when she refuses to?
I don't like using strength or force to do things, and I am afraid to cause fear or trauma on my little one
This dislike of using force speaks for you. However, in this case, it might be the only ...
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How to help my 2.5-year-old daughter take her medicine when she refuses to?
Let her moan, cry, and delay the inevitable, showing respect for her feelings, but set a timer for these activities. When the timer goes off, it's time to take the medicine.
Refusing medicine ...
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How to convince a young child with ASD to begin ADHD medicine?
We couldn't wait any longer. Our daughter confronted us about why we wanted her to make her take "happy pills" and that it was silly to expect someone to be happy all the time. I told her that whoever ...
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How to help my 2.5-year-old daughter take her medicine when she refuses to?
Parent: "It's time to take your medicine."
Kid: "Charlie should not take medicine."
Parent: "No it's time to take medicine. First we'll take the medicine, then we can go do < fun activity>."
Kid:...
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How to best prepare a pre-school child for surgery and associated procedures?
As someone who has a now 9 year old boy who was operated on an umbilical hernia when he was 3 I feel like I am in the perfect position to answer :D
The key thing we found was the most helpful was to ...
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How to convince a young child with ASD to begin ADHD medicine?
I was ADHD inattentive and did not receive medication for it (story for another time, but I am passed that now). My wife is ADHD inattentive and she may be mild ASD, and she started her medication as ...
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Is my 4-year-old too dependent on over-the-counter medication?
I think that @threetimes is definitely on the right track here, but I wanted to add something else as well.
I have a distinct memory as a kid of taking medicine for something and then being very ...
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How to help my 2.5-year-old daughter take her medicine when she refuses to?
I had similar with 2 sons... and yes I am 110kg...
Around 5 &3 they had to have injections at the docs. Oldest refused, hating needles while youngest sat and was so easy - they were in the room ...
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Is my 4-year-old too dependent on over-the-counter medication?
Children can be odd in how they respond to illness. When one of my children was not even two he caught a stomach bug. We all did. But everyone got better within short order, then the toddler became ...
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How to help my 2.5-year-old daughter take her medicine when she refuses to?
My eldest has a chronic medical condition (cerebral palsy), for which we have given her literally thousands of doses of medicine (through a tube directly into her stomach), not to mention some much ...
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How to help my 2.5-year-old daughter take her medicine when she refuses to?
When my daughter was four years old she refused to take her antibiotics. As it happened, I also had to take antibiotics, so we would take our pills together. It has never been so easy to give a child ...
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How to help my 2.5-year-old daughter take her medicine when she refuses to?
My daughter's a similar age and has had to take antibiotics fairly regularly for a large portion of her life and there are a couple of things I'd like to add that I don't see here mentioned.
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Why do vitamins & minerals recommendations for babies vary per country
I suspect it varies by country for a multitude of reasons. The first being that each country is run by a different government. Each government is run by different people who probably made up these ...
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How to convince a young child with ASD to begin ADHD medicine?
It may be that you've left out key details from your description, but it sure sounds like you're rushing into this. Psychotropic medication should be a last resort, not a first one. Maybe your ...
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How to get a 2-year old to take prednisolone
I know this is very old but we had this problem yesterday and I want to second the recommendation on getting the Orapred generic.
My son was given the liquid prednisolone at Urgent Care and took it ...
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How to get a 2-year old to take prednisolone
When they get old enough to hold their nose you can have them hold their nose, take the med and while still holding their nose chew on a piece of gum or suck on a strong candy/sucker for a minute and ...
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How to get a 2-year old to take prednisolone
We have been dealing with this problem for over a year now and I have finally found out that there are a handful of manufacturers that supply the generic of Orapred. It tastes soooooooo good its hard ...
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How to help my 2.5-year-old daughter take her medicine when she refuses to?
and I am afraid to cause fear or trauma on my little one.
Sometimes force is needed to save someone's life or prevent brain damage. Those are the gray areas of life. A high enough fever for long ...
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Is my 4-year-old too dependent on over-the-counter medication?
A major way that children learn is by copying behavior they see from others. see here and here. It is most likely that you child sees you giving medicine to your other child and just want to be part ...
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What to do when my toddler has bad allergies at night?
I've been thinking about this a bit. If it's grass/tree pollen, there are a few other measures to mitigate the severity of his (and your) symptoms. Some of these are easier than others. I'll presume ...
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How do I get a newborn to swallow medicine?
The first thing to know is that one should aim the syringe towards his cheek after putting it in his mouth and not towards the back of his mouth. My trick is to squeeze a little medicine towards his ...
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How to give a medicine with really bad taste
I had the same problem a few weeks ago, I found that if you get your child to suck an ice cube or ice lolly for about 5 minutes it will numb the mouth and will be almost tasteless.
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