Help with giving meds

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Hi everyone,

I've got a question about how to get meds into kids that are

particularly difficult and with whom you can't reason. My almost 5

year old PDD-NOSer is impossible to get any medication into if he

knows it's medication. All meds have to be hidden in something, and

if he even gets an inkling that there might be a med hidden in

something he won't eat/drink it. For the most part I don't even

try...he doesn't get Motrin even if he's got a fever because it's not

worth the battle, and it's not like you can just force him to take

it...he makes himself throw up even if you've gotten him to swallow it.

So, now his doc has prescribed Adderall XR for him in the morning.

The first few mornings we didn't have any problems because I mixed it

in some chocolate pudding and he didn't realize that it was

medicated. But now I think he's caught on, and he's not taking

it...spitting it out and gagging. There aren't a lot of things he

likes that I can mix it into, though, and I'm just SO frustrated...I

can't fight with him every morning, especially since there is no

reasoning with him about it...he doesn't get that it's for his own

good, that it only lasts a moment to take it, etc., etc. I mean, he

won't take liquid medicine that TASTES GOOD, so how on earth am I

going to get him to take this? And it makes me SO ANGRY with him

because he has to make everything SO DIFFICULT all the time. I almost

wish I could shoot the capsules down his throat like I would a cat.

Ugh. Honestly, my pets were easier to give medicine to than this child.

Thanks for any suggestions you might have.

Mina

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Mina Smolinski

Mommy to:

9/25/02 - NT

5/13/04 - PDD-NOS

Owen 7/1/05 - PDD-NOS/Hyperlexia

Lila 3/3/07 - NT