How to give pills to infants
5/7/99 8:53 PM

First of all get a good pill splitter.

Second, got buy some pancake syrup in a plastic squeeze bottle. Hershey chocolate will do as well. Do whatever you want with the syrup but keep the small plastic lid that looks like a tiny (3/4") cup.

Next get an insulin syringe and throw the needle away (after breaking it, so some druggie doesn't pull it out of the trash and use it)

Splt the pill into whatever portion the doctor has perscribed. and place it in your new medicine mixing cup (the syrup lid). FIll the syringe half full of distilled water. Slowly squirt the water into your medicine mixing cup. Wait until the pill has completely disolved. Pull the suspension back into the syringe. Place the tip of the syringe on the back of the infants tongue. Not far enough to cause him to gag, but far enough that his natural reation will be to swallow the liquid. Slowly squirt the susension into the baby's mouth. When the syringe is empty refill it halfway with distilled water again and squirt it into your medicine mixing cup. (This collects any residue medicine that wasn't taken the first time) Stir the water around and pull it back into the syringe. Repeat the process of giving to the infant.

Both of our children now take both their Cortef and Florinef straight without having to go through this process. Ginny began taking it (dry, not suspended in anything) as early as nine months.

Danny Carlton
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