If your baby refuses to take medicine, parents should learn these little tricks to feed the medicine

I believe everyone knows that medicine is partially poisonous, but in order to maintain their children's immune function, many parents will not choose to give their babies drips or injections when they are sick. Most people will feed the baby medicine directly, but the taste of the medicine is not very good, so most children refuse to take the medicine. In severe cases, they will resist the medicine and cry and become restless. In fact, it is very simple to feed medicine to babies. You can learn these techniques.

If your baby refuses to take medicine, parents should learn these little tricks to feed the medicine

1. Pinch the baby's nose and force-feed medicine. Babies are afraid of bitter things, especially the unpleasant smell of traditional Chinese medicine, which always makes them refuse to open their mouths. Some mothers, after trying soft or hard methods to no avail, have no choice but to pinch their baby's nose and force the medicine down the baby's throat. This method can easily cause the baby to choke on the medicine and cause suffocation. Once such a danger occurs, parents should take emergency measures immediately, hug the baby's abdomen with both hands, make its back close to your abdomen, squeeze the child's abdomen hard, and make it bend over, repeat several times in order to remove foreign objects in the airway. If it doesn't work, go to the hospital immediately.

2. Let your baby swallow the pills dry. Generally, medicines are taken with water, but some mothers see their babies drinking the water but the pills are still in their mouths, so they ask their babies to swallow the pills dry. Although the tablets swallowed dry are no longer in the mouth, they can easily remain in the digestive tract and damage the digestive tract mucosa. Therefore, it is better to take medicine with water. If the baby cannot learn to swallow pills with water, the mother needs to spend more time and effort to teach him. If it is really difficult, you can also crush the tablets into small pieces to help your baby swallow.

3. Cheating the baby that medicine tastes like candy. Mothers try every means to get their babies to take medicine, usually by coaxing them into saying that the pills taste as sweet as candy. Although babies usually realize their mothers are lying after they take the medicine, some children's medicines do have sweeteners to cater to children's tastes. But this white lie can easily make the baby mistakenly think that medicine and sugar are the same thing, and eat the medicine recklessly thinking that it is sugar.

4. Increase or decrease the dosage of medicine at will. Every family has a small medicine box, and parents often act as "doctors" to prescribe medicine for their babies. However, some parents are eager to get better and believe that increasing the dosage of medication can help the disease heal sooner, so they blindly increase the dosage of medication for their babies. The larger the dosage of the drug, the greater the toxic side effects, which can lead to acute or cumulative drug poisoning in severe cases. Some parents frequently change other drugs when they see that the drug has no effect after a few days. This approach not only makes it difficult to achieve the desired effect, but also causes the body to develop drug resistance and adverse reactions, making treatment more complicated. Some parents are very casual when giving medicine to their babies. They feed their babies when they remember and it doesn't matter if they forget. As a result, not only is the therapeutic effect poor, but it can also easily cause bacteria to develop drug resistance and drug resistance. These are things parents should be wary of avoiding.

5. Taking the medicine for too long. The baby caught a cold, and the mother thought it was a minor matter, so she made some medicine for the baby. After taking it for several days, the baby's condition didn't seem to get better. In this case, if there is no improvement after taking certain medicines for two or three days, you should stop taking them. It is very likely that your baby's illness is not as simple as it seems on the surface, and you must take him to see a doctor as soon as possible. Otherwise, the effective treatment period may be delayed or the disease may worsen without the mother knowing.

6. Blind use of antipyretics. Newborns and infants are more prone to fever. This is because the temperature regulation function of newborns and infants is not perfect. Fever signs will also appear when the ambient temperature changes or when there is insufficient water. However, parents must not feed their babies antipyretics for this reason. Some antipyretics such as aspirin, pediatric antipyretic tablets, APC, etc. are prohibited for newborns. The best way to deal with fever in infants and young children is to use physical cooling methods to reduce fever and encourage them to drink plenty of water, such as opening the blanket to expose the limbs, wiping the neck and palms of hands and feet with alcohol at a concentration not exceeding 30%, and using a cold water bag as a pillow. Babies with persistent high fever should be taken to the hospital immediately for medical treatment and take medication according to the doctor's instructions.

7. Sharing prescription drugs without authorization: Conditions that appear to have the same symptoms may be caused by different reasons. Even if the same baby has exactly the same disease as before, before using the same prescription medicine on the baby, you should ask the doctor to check and tell the doctor what medicines you have on hand so that he can make a judgment. Therefore, parents should not share medicines without permission because of laziness.

8. Not feeding medicine according to the instructions. Some syrup-based medicines need to be shaken before taking. Some alkaline medicines should not be taken at the same time as fruit juice, because fruit juice contains acidic substances, which can cause many drugs to decompose prematurely, or cause the sugar coating to dissolve prematurely, and the neutralization of acid and alkali will greatly reduce the medicinal properties. Do not use milk to give medicine to babies... Parents should understand these principles of medication in advance. If the medication is not taken according to the instructions, it will affect the efficacy of the medication.