The Sore Throat

[billroper]

Katie told me last night that her throat hurt. By the middle of the night, she came into our room in a good bit of pain.

The problem is that she hates the taste of the chewable and liquid children's ibuprofen and/or acetaminophen and she can't manage to swallow a single adult pill. And that's what she needs to take the pain down.

I admit that the grape chewable ibuprofen smelled pretty vile to me. Over lunch, I found some orange flavored children's ibuprofen. daisy_knotwise managed to get two down her this afternoon by dissolving them in water. This evening, I got her to chew up two of them and wash them down with iced tea.

This little girl has a hypertrophied sense of "That tastes yucky!"

*sigh*

We kept her home from school today. We'll see how she feels tomorrow.

Comments

[sexybass.livejournal.com]

Remember my mother pulverizing pills for me as wells and mixing with something. We didn't have flavoured meds back then :-/

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

It's actually safer too. When my baby brother wanted a treat, he got into the honey and not any flavored children's drug. Mom had to wash him clothes and all but she did not have to have his stomach pumped.