When children are sick, they need to take medicine, but many parents reluctantly choose to give infusions to treat their children because it is too difficult to give them medicine. Therefore, parents often ask doctors to give infusions to their children, regardless of whether the illness is mild or severe, even though they know that infusions can have many negative consequences. Here are some feeding methods and suggestions for parents: Feeding medicine to infants and toddlers Many parents use the pinch-nose method: pinch the child’s nose with the thumb and index finger and put the medicine in when the child opens his or her mouth to breathe, although this method is simple, but because of the imperfect swallowing function of small infants, it can cause choking and vomiting. To make it easier for the child to take the medicine, the posture must be correct: first raise the child’s head, let the face sideways, and then use a spoon or straw from the lower jaw (the side of the mouth against the lower teeth) to reach in and feed the medicine slowly, do not rush to take out the spoon or straw, wait for the child to swallow the medicine and then take it out. If it is a tablet, remember to break it up before feeding it to the child, otherwise it will be easily inhaled into the trachea by mistake. Suggestions to parents: When children grow to 3-6 months old, they should be given a variety of flavors of juice and soup, such as bitter gourd juice, tomato juice, watercress soup, mustard soup (soup is rolling soup, no salt added), etc., slightly sour or bitter taste, so that children slowly adapt to the taste of different foods, until the time of sickness and medicine, naturally not afraid of bitter. In addition, parents take the lead in everything to eat, the child also has a good influence. Feeding medicine to children When children reach the age of 3, most of them are already eating with a spoon by themselves. When a child is sick at this time, unless they are very weak, encourage them to take their own medicine and give praise and rewards if their spirits and appetite are still good. Once the child feels brave enough to take his or her own medicine, he or she will not be afraid to do so in the future. However, this relies on implicit education from an early age. Advice to parents: When a child is reluctant to take medicine, parents should not adopt a simple compromise approach, do not think that the child will not take the medicine even if it is okay, sickness can be injected, can be infused, and as a result reinforces the idea that the child does not take medicine, after all, the side effects and risks of injections are much higher than taking medicine. Some parents take medicine as a means of punishment, usually children do not listen to scare that they have to take medicine, but also stressed that it is bitter medicine, the child will think that medicine is very bitter, of course, more reluctant to take medicine. How to take medicine and vomit? Infants vomit due to imperfect swallowing function, young children vomit often parents are accustomed to out, children do not want to take medicine, feel nauseous when taking medicine, this habit is difficult to correct once formed, so to guide from childhood, the method and the above-mentioned similar. Some children really do not want to take the medicine, too bitter, especially the tablets, you can use the children love to drink juice, honey water, glucose water to eat, but the amount of juice or sugar water must be strictly in accordance with the amount of drug instructions to control, otherwise it will also affect the effectiveness of the medicine. Milk may react with the drug and is not recommended to be mixed with it. In short, children must follow the doctor’s instructions and listen strictly to the doctor’s instructions, and the amount of medication that the doctor says should not be increased or decreased at will. If you vomit immediately after taking the medicine, you can make up the appropriate amount, otherwise how much you should eat is how much, if you vomit half an hour after taking the medicine, there is no need to increase the amount. If you want to take several medicines at once, as long as the doctor does not explain that they must be eaten separately, you can usually mix several medicines together and feed them, but be careful not to leave the mixed medicines for too long. If the doctor does not explain the specific way to take the drug, you should read the instructions before feeding the drug to your child, the time needed to give different drugs with different effects, such as some digestive drugs and antiemetic drugs must be fed half an hour before meals (milk), Similac is a gastrointestinal mucosa protector to be fed between meals, other anti-inflammatory, antipyretic and antipyretic drugs can be eaten after meals, cough and phlegm medicine is best fed half an hour after meals, and after feeding the drug Do not drink water immediately after feeding the medicine, so that the liquid stays in the throat for more time. If the child vomits frequently, it is best to feed the medicine between meals.