Tips To Teach Your Children Drink Medicine – Giving a medicine to children is not an easy thing to do. The medicine taste, which is usually bitter, makes children do not love it. It means you should have special tricks to make them swallow or drink the medicine.

1. You can request prescription that preferred by children.  You can ask for the medicine that has a form just like candy, has the light color and sweet. However, if the medicine has the form like this, you should be careful. Keep away from the children reach because they can interest to eat that excessively because they think that it is candy, not the medicine.

2. If the prescription is powder, you can ask the doctor whether the medicine allowed mixing with foods or drinks that your children love such as mix with yogurt, ice cream, or honey. 

3. If the doctor not allowed you mixing the medicine with foods or drink, you can ask your children to swallow it quickly to make the bitter taste lost. After that, you can give some sweet food or the other food that your children love.

4. if the medicine has the smelly sting you can ask your children to close their nose or hold their breath for while when they swallow the medicine.

5. put the medicine into refrigerator, it will reduce the bitter taste.

6. if it still does not work, ask your children to consume ice block before take a medicine, it has goal to anesthetized their tongue. 

7. Do not forget to give some praise if your children have good attitude and cooperative to consume their medicine.

One thing you should know is never force your children to consume their medicine with snap to them.  You can give some understanding to them that medicine is important for their recovery. Therefore, your children will have a willing to consume it.

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