We are supposed to give Jac Zegerid three times a day (Prevacid is twice a day). This has become a bit of a problems as he does not want to take it. We have always given Jac his Prevacid in his milk (which is actually not the correct way to give it, but it is what they taught us to do in the hospital) and he has always taken it without a problem. The dosing for the Zegerid is 1 ml of Zegerid plus 1 ml of Mylanta, Cherry Flavor.
Today, Jac refused to take it. He cried and cried when I tried to give it to him, and cried and cried when I tried to give him regular milk even. Not a good thing. Yesterday he only took 430 ml of milk and today he only took 345 (whereas he had been averaging in the mid-500s for the last week and a half or so. D'oh!
So, this evening when he would not take the Zegerid we gave him the Prevacid instead, and he promptly took it, and then went to sleep!
I am going to ask on my newsgroups for some ideas about how to make the Zegerid more palatable.
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When Luke was 4 or 5 months old, I needed to give him medicine and he wouldn't take it from a syringe - he'd just get very upset, to the point of making himself throw up. Once when he spit some back out, I wiped it off his face with a baby spoon and he happily took the medicine off the spoon! So I measured it in the syringe, and then gave it to him in about 5 spoonfuls. It took a lot longer than the syringe, but it didn't make Luke mad. Good luck figuring out what will work for Jac!
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