Medication & Vomiting

[maztec]

I am sure this has been answered ad naseum somewhere. I apologize. I am far too tired to do a search to find this right now. Hopefully someone can say "Oh, you missed thread XYZ!" and just link me at it. Or answer the question, or whatever.

Our daughter is on tylenol supposotories at this point. When we give her infant liquid tylenol, she swallows it . . . and vomits it up along with her stomach contents less than 10 seconds later. We have also tried, on doctor recommendation, liquid ibuprofen.

My wife is insisting on giving these to her after her eating, but we have also tried mid-way.

We have an oxycodeine prescription, but I am afraid she would just vomit it up also.

If we give her nothing, she does not vomit, but we end up shoving tylenol up her bum.

Any advice on how to help her swallow medication without vomiting it and everything else inside?

Thank you for the hlep.

Now, to go give her her midnight suppository. :sigh

[Dedicated Dad]

We put calpol (infant paracetamol) mixed into Mr X's bottles of milk, that & the infant ibuprofren version are both strawberry flavoured, it didn't curdle the milk any.

Worth a try.

[Nezzy]

Are you home or still in hospital? I would request some Zofran. Or if he seems comfortable skip the pain meds.

[maztec]

Thank you DD & Heather. We are home. Breast fed. She refuses to take a bottle (both before and after surgery). She is barely taking a tippy cup, but I do not want to mess it up by giving her "bad milk". I think we may stick to the suppositories, which run out tomorrow, and then let her come back to normal. But we will see.

[AJ's Mommy]

See if she is ok without it? AJ vomitted his meds too :( It's so hard to keep trying to give it to them and they keep throwing them back up. He however refused the suppositories so we had no choice. in the end he went off the yucky meds early and did ok. Can they give you another prescription for some more suppositories if she needs them still?

[jjmc123]

My son vomits up his meds. Its easier now that he's older as we can reason with him, but boy was it tought when he was a baby! If you want to give her some oral meds, give her teeny tiny amounts at a time. See how she does. I know for my son he vomits because of the anxiety of what we're giving him.

[evergreenmom]

My son vomits up his meds. Its easier now that he's older as we can reason with him, but boy was it tought when he was a baby! If you want to give her some oral meds, give her teeny tiny amounts at a time. See how she does. I know for my son he vomits because of the anxiety of what we're giving him.

Good point Cindy- Lucy is six nearly seven but for a long time now we have had to give her chewables(even antibiotics) because by age two or three she would vomit liquids- part anxiety, part yucky flavor, and part just gag reflex I think. I would think doing it drop by drop may make a difference. You could also try a different flavor if available...

[Shar]

Yes, my now 9 year old would vomit up meds as a baby. It was awful but she did outgrow it. I know that doesn't help you now. We did suppositories when she really needed them. She did not have surgery so it was not very often in her young life that she needed pain meds. I did learn to ask her doctors to prescribe the most concentrated or less dosage meds (less liquid per dose, less doses per day) of antibiotics, when she needed those. Also, once she could handle some oral meds I would purchase the infant drops because there was more medicine in less suspension. Meaning she would only need to take like, 1/4 tsp amount of the infant drops to get the same amount of meds that were in 1 tsp of the children's version. You can ask her doctor what her correct dosage is per her weight and then read box labels to get the proper amount from the meds. Your little one is still young so you might use this information in another year or two, but it's good to know. With my daughter, I went from giving her suppositories as a baby, to the more concentrated oral dose, to finally finding she would tolerate one "flavor" of children's Motrin. We stuck with that for a few years and now at age 9 she can take any flavor. She still does not care for it but she has not vomited up meds since she was 1 or 2. Hope your daughter is resting and recovering.

[maztec]

Thank yo ueveryone. We found that if we gave the meds to her before eating, she would gag on them for a bit, but nothing would come up, and then we could feed her without issue. Not the most pleasant way to deliver meds, but it seemed to work.

That and the suppository worked well.