My 2 Year Old Has the Flu and Hates the Taste of Medicine..

I feel your pain. I've tried it all - liquid medicine in a sippy cup, crushed tablet stirred into some peanut butter or sprinkled between the PB and the jelly on a sandwich or into a hole I 'drill' into a banana, liquid stirred into a cup of yogurt, bribing with a treat, pretending to drink it myself, ACTUALLY drinking it myself... :)

I can tell you what doesn't work, and that is trying to force them to drink it, or trying to sneak it into their mouth when they are against it. That's the way to get them, you, and everything around you covered with sticky medicine.

Good luck.

We have had the massively bad flu at our house over the past week.

It started with my middle guy last Saturday. We all had it by Monday.

My kids are stick in the mud kinda of kids about taking medication. My middle kiddo will throw it up in defiance.

I gave it up.

I let their fever work for them.

They only had one for three days and then they were on the mends though.

She is two, so she is not going to understand reasoning with her. She does not know what the flu is or can do to ones body.

If bribing her does not work...You can take her to an ER or Urgent care to help you get the medication into her(we have done this more then once when my special needs kid had medication to take).

Forcing them will only make things worse I have found.

My kids have all thrown up with this flu. Not a ton. Just once each. It was after trying to drink something for the first time after sleeping on a fever for hours. So it is possible that she threw up because she is sick and not because you tried giving her medication.

Push comes to shove if she does not turn a corner on the fever they will admit her to the hospital for an IV with fluids and then iv medication. For you that may be your best case scenario(never feels that way but it would get fluid in her).

My kids only had the fever for three days. I watched them like hawks and to make sure it never got any higher then 101(which is my cut off for allowing a fever to run it's course).

Good luck. I hope she allows you to give her the medication soon.

I just keep telling myself that, we have it now...at least we are getting it out of the way. By next week it will be a distant memory.....one I can say we came and got the T-shirt.

The "Flu medicine" you reference, is it TamiFlu? If it is, the medicine is designed to lesen the effects of the flu and help those who consume it get over it faster. It won't cure it so worse case, you and your little one will just have to ride it out. If your DD had a flu shot this season, it should also lessen the time it takes to run it's course. My husband tested positive at the ER for the flu about 3 weeks ago (got the Flu shot in the fall like he was supposed to) and he took Tamiflu. Didn't really make a hill of beans difference. It was well over a week before he felt, 'normal' and was without fever. I wouldn't press the issue because it will eventually pass on it's own. Just keep the tylenol/motrin going to tackle the fever and go from there and best of luck!

I know it is hard enough to have a sick kid, and then fight him/her for medicine when they cry and throw makes it worse.
Can you ask the pharmacy to add a flavor to it? I know for most medicines you can do that these days. Honestly when it comes to medicines I am non negotiable with kids. Once they know no matter what u will make them take it, they stop fighting it so bad after a few doses. I have literally held face and arms of my toddler, opened his mouth and fed him medicine when it was necessary. But I always tell them and prep them before as to why I am giving it to them, how it will make them feel better and promise a treat right after they take it. The rewards could be anything of choice, anything that they love and care for. For older one it is his favorite show which is on TV on pause waiting to get started as soon as he takes his meds and for little one it is M&Ms or gummy bear right in front of him. It distracts them from the after taste and once the medicine is in mouth u can get them to focus on the reward.
Honestly they fight it 2-3 times, then they get used to the drill coz they know mummy is not gonna back down so whats the point. You just have to be strong and know that u are forcing it because it is in her best interest and go through with it.
I hope your little one feels better. Take care.

sometimes flu and vomit go together. bribe her with a jelly bean. its just for the time she is taking the meds and she is only two. if a jelly bean does the trick then have at it! also talking my kids out of gagging and being silly over meds usually helps. i never had a issue with my kids taking meds until my five yr old got the flu a few weeks ago. apparently that med is nasty because he would nto take it!!

Have the druggist put in flavoring. You can add some cherry flavoring too.

What exactly is her "flu medicine"? Tamiflu?

To be effective, it has to be started within first 48 hours of symptoms. If your daughter saw the doctor on day 4, it is too late so I don't know why he prescribed it.

Call the doctor/nurse, or the pharmacist. You may be told not to bother trying to give it to her anymore.