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My LG hated taking calpol until I tried it with the spoon and now she actually opens her mouth for it, might be worth a try x
Agree with the spoon trick, my LO hates the syringe thing but will take it from the spoon x
We had to put it on one of my sons feeding spoons for a while or he wouldn’t take it! 🤣
Thanks for the suggestions she actually knows when it's on the spoon and coming for her mouth 🥴 and keeps her mouth firmly shut so the spoon doesn't work! I normally use the Nelsons granules for teething @Oli but I'll look up helios one. I normally mix it in yoghurt and fruit but she was refusing even the yoghurt earlier. She has a temperature so looking to for ways to bring the temp down either with Calpol or other methods. Does anyone use anything other than Calpol/Nurofen?
Not sure if this will work - but my LO loves to chew his bath sponge (not ideal and I do take it off him quickly!). When he was poorly a few weeks ago and refused calpol (touch wood, normally he’s ok), I let him chew the bath sponge and then shoved calpol on a spoon in his mouth at the same time. Worked! 😂. Good luck though - sounds like a rough patch, and you’re not alone x
You could get paracetamol in the form of suppositories, you pop it up the bottom and squeeze the bum cheeks together for a few seconds so they don’t push it out, it’s quite easy and effective
We put a crushed half a calpol fastmelt in yoghurt and she takes that. There's much less of a calpol taste than with the liquid. She absolutely refuses any other way we have tried to give it to her.
Do they take a dummy? We put a tiny drop then dummy straight in, he sucks it down, then a tiny bit more and so forth until the syringe is done!
Hey why not try holistic for teething I use ABC from Helios pharmacy. Can also use the holistic teething granules they’re available in Sainsbury’s or Tesco xxx