Applesauce has worked best with Honeybunches. Here are some other tricks:
There are several tricks to help others swallow pills that parents on this website have discovered. Here are some that others have used with success:
Practice with swallowing tictacs
Hide the pill in the middle of marshmallows
Put the pill in some jelly, applesauce, pudding or yogurt
Make it fun/exciting
Red tic tacs: (Go into bathroom; Mommy places one on her tongue and swallows it; admire the red dot left on Mommy's tongue; then the child gets to try)
Disguise the drug: put the drug in a food that the kid likes. Some use ice-cream, jelly, chocolate syrup, applesauce, frosting, etc.Spoon trick: Put the med into applesauce, jello, pudding or jelly; offer the child the spoon while still holding it, kid opens mouth and tries to consume the yummy stuff while you KEEP THE SPOON in their mouth. End result is that the kid looks at you like you are a weirdo but they have to suck the yummy contraband off the spoon and they are focusing on the SPOON in their mouth, not the med.
Bribe trick: Give the kid candy, computer time, tv time, cash, whatever it takes for each dose. Cost to parent is less than the cost of parental therapy for the battle."
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