Medicating a newborn

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What's the best way to medicate a newborn? The medicine is liquid, but she
tends to spit it all back out. Any tips would be greatly appreciated.

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Lina
EDD July 20th, 2003

"Lina" wrote in message
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What's the best way to medicate a newborn? The medicine is liquid, but she
tends to spit it all back out. Any tips would be greatly appreciated.


Is it the Zantac? I still have a hard time getting it in my daughter's
mouth and she's been on it for 3 years What worked best as an infant was
when I was getting ready to feed her, right before I nursed her or gave her
a bottle, while she was in position, I put the syringe in the side of her
mouth (kinda towards her cheek) and then blew on her face to make her
swallow. We now call this the fish procedure.

give her very little at a time, maybe followed by some formula or water to
get it down

My kids always were good at taking medicine
Karen
"Lina" wrote in message
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What's the best way to medicate a newborn? The medicine is liquid, but she
tends to spit it all back out. Any tips would be greatly appreciated.

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Lina
EDD July 20th, 2003

Lina wrote:
What's the best way to medicate a newborn? The medicine is liquid,
but she tends to spit it all back out. Any tips would be greatly
appreciated.

Try squishing her cheeks together a little bit - makes it harder to spit it
out. Also, if you can put the dropper in the back of her mouth on the side
(like between the gums and inside of the cheek) she'll have a harder time
pushing it out with her tongue.

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iphigenia
www.tristyn.net

"Denise" wrote
What's the best way to medicate a newborn? The medicine is liquid, but
she
tends to spit it all back out. Any tips would be greatly appreciated.


Is it the Zantac?

If it's Zantac, the only thing that worked for us was to put the dose into
20-30ml of ebm. DD would then take it quite happily from a syringe, spoon
or cup.

Jean


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iphigenia wrote:
Lina wrote:
What's the best way to medicate a newborn? The medicine is liquid,
but she tends to spit it all back out. Any tips would be greatly
appreciated.


try getting a really THIN syringe (like the kind
they use for shots) It takes longer, but it
is easier.

Jan
Tovah 13
Eliana 11
Asher 8
David 5
Shoshana 3

try with plastic parto of inection i got it with sumamed and it works my son
is now 4 years and I have no problems with an liquid medication anymore
Petra
"iphigenia" wrote in message
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Lina wrote:
What's the best way to medicate a newborn? The medicine is liquid,
but she tends to spit it all back out. Any tips would be greatly
appreciated.

Try squishing her cheeks together a little bit - makes it harder to spit
it
out. Also, if you can put the dropper in the back of her mouth on the side
(like between the gums and inside of the cheek) she'll have a harder time
pushing it out with her tongue.

--
iphigenia
www.tristyn.net

Lina ) wrote:

What's the best way to medicate a newborn? The medicine is liquid, but she
tends to spit it all back out. Any tips would be greatly appreciated.

I always just did it the quick, mean way :-)
Put the syringe far back in the mouth, squirt the dose in, and then hold the
mouth shut until the dose is swallowed.

--Helen

Lina ) wrote:

What's the best way to medicate a newborn? The medicine is liquid, but she
tends to spit it all back out. Any tips would be greatly appreciated.

I always just did it the quick, mean way :-)
Put the syringe far back in the mouth, squirt the dose in, and then hold the
mouth shut until the dose is swallowed.

--Helen







Yeah, we had to do it Helen's way too.

Brandy

On 29 Jul 2003 19:50:52 GMT, (H Schinske) wrote:

Put the syringe far back in the mouth, squirt the dose in, and then hold the
mouth shut until the dose is swallowed.

What about choking? I would be afraid to do it that way because I
would be afraid that it would choke the baby.

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Daye
Momma to Jayan
EDD 11 Jan 2004