Although the weather is warming up now, the temperature varies greatly in the morning and evening, and children are prone to illness. When a child gets sick, he or she will have to take medicine. The parents of a sick child do not regret that their clothes are getting wider, and they are too thin to pine for their children. But when it comes to giving your child medication, it’s even more tiring. On the way children take medication, I did a small survey, the results are really diverse. There is the whole family, according to the legs and arms force-feeding, there is a father with a stick on the side of the threat, and even coaxed to sign an “unequal treaty”. In short, none of the bear children who refuse to take their medication can be bothered.
When a child is sick and refuses to take medicine, parents are most concerned about the following issues.
A. The child vomited up the medicine fed to him, do I have to refill it?
If you vomit a lot just after feeding, you need to refill the medicine again. If it takes half an hour to throw up, there is no need to refill. If the child only vomits a little, you may not need to refill. This is because the amount of medication your child needs to serve is prescribed by your doctor based on your child’s age and weight, and cannot be increased or decreased at will.
Can you force a child to take medicine if they don’t want to?
There are two channels in the human pharynx, one is the esophagus and the other is the trachea. There is an epiglottis cartilage above the trachea, and when swallowing, the cartilage covers the entrance of the trachea, so that food enters the esophagus. When the child cries and pinches the nose to instill medicine, the epiglottis cartilage is too late to cover the entrance to the trachea, which may cause the medicine to flow into the trachea, causing the child to choke violently; in severe cases, inhaling into the lungs can even lead to aspiration pneumonia!
In this way, it is easy to get the medicine down, but the child will easily spit it out when he cries, so that not only the child suffers, adults are also anxious; at the same time, this instillation may also make the drug choke in the child’s esophagus, lungs and other organs, the light will cause inflammation of the bronchi, lungs, the heavy will block breathing caused by asphyxiation death.
Third, the preparation work before feeding the child medicine
1, feeding drugs after meals
Many drugs have gastrointestinal reactions, so most are recommended to be taken one hour after a meal. But after all, the role of each drug and side effects are different, should follow the advice of the doctor or instructions. For example, certain drugs that are more irritating to the stomach, such as iron, can be chosen to be fed 1 hour after a meal to prevent the drug from damaging the gastric mucosa; morpholine is generally taken 15-30 minutes before a meal, and if necessary, before bedtime. If it is a small baby, you can take the medicine before feeding or in between two feedings.
2.Prepare the medicine feeding equipment
For example: bottle, dropper, syringe, measuring cup, spoon, medicine feeder, etc.
3.Understand the type of medicine
Before feeding the medicine to understand, to feed the child’s medicine is liquid, powder, tablets or capsules. Infant drugs are mostly liquids, but there are also powders, tablets and capsules. Non-liquid medications can be ground up and dissolved in a small amount of warm boiled water before feeding. After feeding, then feed the child a small amount of warm water to wash down the taste of the medicine in the mouth and help the drug dissolve in the stomach.
Fourth, the correct way to open the child feeding medicine
To feed the child medicine, you have to learn 2 kinds of posture: half-lying, sideways. Children take medicine, more or less will be a bit resistant behavior. Lie flat to take medicine, it is easy to be choked, so try to let the child turn his head to the side. For smaller babies, gently lift the baby into a semi-recumbent position with the upper half of the body slightly higher, fix the arms and legs appropriately, and slowly pour the medicine through the corner of the mouth with a small spoon close to the corner of the mouth until swallowed. If the child does not want to swallow the medicine, pinch his cheeks with his thumb and forefinger to make him swallow.
There are also many medicine boxes that come with graduated droppers or measuring cups. When using a dropper and feeder, place the mouthpiece between the buccal mucosa of the baby’s mouth and the dental cavity and drip slowly at his swallowing rate. If you don’t have a dropper, you can prepare a syringe with the needle removed and use it in a similar way to a dropper. Sometimes an empty bottle can also be used to give medicine to your child by putting the medicine in the bottle and letting your baby suck on it. If you don’t have any of the things mentioned above at the moment, you can also use a spoon. Pour a measured dose of medicine into the spoon, send it into your child’s mouth, press down on the tongue, and take out the spoon when the medicine is swallowed.
V. Feeding medicine to children of 36 plans
1.Beauty plan
This method is applicable to older children. Is the first to take the medicine after the beautiful blueprint to the child to see, and encourage the child to take the medicine themselves. For example, after taking the medicine will be comfortable, you can eat good food, you can also play with children.
2. Concealment
Prepare two small bowls, one with the child’s favorite juice or drink, and the other with the medicine. Give your child the drink first, change it to medicine and feed it quickly while he or she is not paying attention, then give a spoonful of the drink. Note that each spoonful of medicine should not be too large, and do not form a fixed pattern, so as not to be detected and refuse to take it again. This move is all about speed, the strike when the strike.
3.Steal the beam
Children are very sensitive, they do not like something close to immediately notice. If the medicine is replaced with their favorite package method, the psychological defenses will not be so strong, it is also easy to eat the medicine. However, it should be reminded that this method is not suitable for babies under six months old, and that honey (which can cause botulism in babies under one year old) and peanut butter (which can easily cause food allergies) should not be used to mix the medicine.
If you are not sure, you can consult your doctor beforehand to determine if the medication can be mixed with food. Also, do not mix the medication in your breast milk, because if your baby finds out that there is medication in it, he or she may refuse the next nursing session.
4.Wanting to get it
The more you get, the more you want. So, the mother can usually hide all the medicine to the place where the child can not find, when the child is sick like a treasure to take out, to arouse his interest.
5.Putting it to good use
The child’s sense of taste is gradually developed, the child will be more sensitive to bitter, astringent or odorous drugs, after eating bitter medicine is not eaten again. In order to avoid the taste of the drug and affect the medication, parents had better make early preparations in the choice of drugs, the choice of good taste of pediatric drugs such as sweet syrup, chewable tablets or tablets with fruit flavor, so that children can take drugs to achieve the purpose of treatment.
6.Lead by example
This trick is also applicable to older children. Take advantage of the child’s small climbing mind, you can set a “medication role model” for your child. For example, “your favorite sister XX, she is not afraid to take medicine when she is sick. You have to be a brave child too, right?”
7, emotional acceptance
Medicine is bitter, and no one is born to like medicine. So it’s understandable that children have emotions when taking medicine. At this time, parents can tell their children about their own childhood medicine story, so that he knows that it is normal not like to take medicine, parents will not be because the child does not like to take medicine does not love him.
8.Fun attraction
Tell your child an anthropomorphic fairy tale. The story sets up a character who is sick and needs to take medicine. When telling the story, mom and dad can say, “The dog is sick, but when he didn’t take the medicine, he had a headache and was so uninspired. After taking the medicine, he is fine. Although the medicine is a little bitter, but in order to restore health, the dog still courageous hair to drink the medicine ……” with anthropomorphic techniques to describe the child’s feelings, the child will be with the characters in the story of the same disease, and mobilized benevolence and curiosity, so take medicine, a thing that does not like to do, also became a fun thing It becomes a fun thing to do.
9.Distraction
Smaller babies, you can let the baby sit up when feeding the medicine. Then hang a toy above the head vertically to attract the baby to look up, when the baby’s attention at one point, the small mouth will be slightly open, quickly drop a drop of medicine into, if the action is skilled, you can achieve the effect of “God does not know, treasure does not know”.
10.Swallowing reaction
This method is also applicable to smaller babies. Before feeding the medicine, you can use a small blanket to wrap the baby to prevent him from resisting the drug with both hands; after the entrance of the medicine, you can gently blow on the baby’s face, then the baby will have a swallowing reflex, the medicine will be swallowed with. In addition, you can also ask your doctor whether you can put the medicine in the refrigerator to chill. Generally speaking, refrigerated medication will not taste too strong. The taste of the medicine can also be effectively reduced by “numbing” the baby’s tongue with ice water beforehand.
Finally, I would like to remind all parents that it is best to pat your baby’s back after feeding the medicine to allow it to enter the stomach smoothly, and not to exercise vigorously or sleep immediately after taking the medicine.