Camille has been taking Prevacid for her reflux for the past six months. They have baby versions that are either a flavored liquid or a chewable tablet, but since we were in Egypt when it was prescribed, all we could get was the adult pill form. Actually in Egypt, you can buy any prescription medicine over the counter so the doctor just pulled out the “magic book” that listed all the medicines available at Egyptian pharmacies and told us what dose we needed to ask for. It seemed a little sketchy at the time, but it was our only choice.
There are all sorts of tips and tricks on the internet for how to give the adult version to a baby. Crack open the capsule, mix the beads of medicine with water or apple juice, then use a syringe to administer. Or mix the beads with applesauce and spoon feed it. Common problems are the baby spitting it out, the beads spilling all over the place, the beads sticking in the syringe . . . generally it can be a pain in the butt.
We struggled through all these different ways of giving Camille her medicine and then Josh figured out this trick:
Yep, she eats it. Just like everything else. Now our most difficult task is finding a time to give it to her since it has to be taken on an empty stomach and our super-eater is always jonesing for food.