CHILD HARD DRNKING MEDICINE (EXECUTION TIME?)
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All parents must have experienced how difficult it gave medicine for the child. Maybe some of you have a solution by force to open your child’s mouth when giving medication. Ok, when your child was a baby, you can do yourself, but imagine, if your child is bigger, stronger energy certainly, and you will be forced together or in my language, “execution”, the whole family had to intervene . His father held the child’s feet, his grandmother holding hands, Baby sitter held his head, and your duty as a mother put the drug into the mouth.
Then the execution is complete with everything your child cries roar. Honestly, I was ever implemented ‘execution’ system to my first child, although far in my heart, I knew that it was all wrong. Until now, even I felt very, very guilty for doing things that I value highly inappropriate place for a child. With all the limitations of information that I got at home, for the execution system, fell down in my family, alias used during my child, I get the same treatment. Automatic, all my childhood experiences that could make me not able to take medication, especially couplet / capsule directly, to my adolescence. Perhaps this is that psychologists call with ‘trauma’.
Grateful for you who found this article while you do not have kids, or is waiting for your baby. That means your job easier, than I who already had applied ‘execution system’. And for you who already forcing your child take medication, there are some things we can do:
1. Change the concept of how to drink the medicine for your child.
Remember always, that the consequences of a coercion is a prolonged trauma.
2. Find out what your child’s favorite foods or drink.
Mix the syrup form of medicine that powder or pills into the drink / food. Alternatively, most simply, you can mix it in a glass of sweet tea, there are also some friends who mix the medicine with gelatin pudding. Funny thing is, my son is mixed with just enough white water courses. Therefore, I prepared a glass of water that I mixed with the drug. When my child thirsty after eating, he usually immediately drink it. Unconscious that white water mixed with medicine. For baby, can be tried little by little. Well, take after the child had to be patient.
3. Taste it first.
You try to taste a medicine that is mixed with the food / drink favorite. Usually, if think drugs are still too felt, the little still not want to drink it. That’s why I like medicine take the maedicine half, so for example the drug for 3 days, usually discharged within 6 days. Nothing, my principles a little bit, while training the child sip the medicine taste.
4. Patience patience patience. Creative creative creative.
Once I know and you also know what we should do to a child taking medicine without coercion, I personally hope that I and you can always ‘conscious self’ that force will only cause new problems more difficult solution.
