Baby projectile vomits when given meds - any tips??
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Anonymous
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FTM here
I need help. Baby was good for months with taking gas meds or Tylenol and now that she’s about to hit 8 months, she pushes everything away. We try and get meds into her and then she gag throws up. Granted she’s been sick lately so that’s not helping. I tried to add the meds (antibiotics) to her milk and give in a bottle and she won’t take it. Syringe and she throws up. Any tips? |
Anonymous
| Are you squirting the meds from the syringe straight to the back of her throat? That used to make my older DD gag when she was a baby, and it took a while for it to dawn on me that was the reason. She stopped doing that once we started placing the syringe into her cheek and slowly delivering the dosage, a little bit at a time. |
Anonymous
| PP again. Will she eat yogurt? I used to hide antibiotics in a little bit of yogurt. |
Anonymous
| Suppositories? |
Anonymous
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PP here. To the question about yogurt, I was informed by peds to wait on yogurt at her age.
Also thanks for the feedback. We’re trying the squirt in cheek and being extra careful not to give a lot or squirt it too far back. Just gave a dose 4am and she took it. |
Anonymous
| Agree to keep trying slow squirts in back of cheek. Or, for an emergency situation, add it to an ounce of watered down juice. |
Anonymous
| Try squirting the dosage onto a spoon and spoon feed it to her. |
Anonymous
| There are Tylenol suppositories. |
Anonymous
yes we did a lot of sleep medicine at that age, would just stick it in cheek while sleeping VERY slowly to avoid choking. Ok maybe this wasn't the safest thign but he always swallowed it and we'd put pacifier right back in and no problem. I'm surprised about the yogurt thing, had never heard that before. I think most babies start eating yogurt when they start eating solids at about 6 months but you should, of course, listen to your pediatrician. |
Anonymous
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If your baby likes pacifiers, Frida baby makes a pacifier medicine dispenser. It didn't work for us, but I think that's mostly because my daughter never took a pacifier well.
Putting it in milk is the only thing that works for us. And even then, we have had times when she'll throw up the advil milk afterwards. I have noticed that using childrens advil liquid is better than the concentrated infant. She'll reject the milk with the infants drops. It's less overall medicine, but maybe the flavor is stronger than the kids liquid. Dunno. Also have found she prefers berry flavored milk vs. orange/cherry/grape advil/tylenol flavors. Can't help on other medicines because she also refuses them. So I can just sympathize. |
Anonymous
| We had this same problem and bought the chewable Tylenol and Motrin pills, crushed them and put it in formula. Easy peasy, no complaint at all, just drank the milk per usual. |
Anonymous