Medicine Hacks for Kids

Several medicine hacks have been making rounds on social media to make medicine time easier for kids, from sneaking it in a sweet treat, hiding it in juice and drowning it in chocolate sauce. The latter is a “go-to” for William Chu, M.D., pediatrician and medical director at Pediatrix® Urgent Care of Texas. "The chocolate syrup hack works and is what I most often recommend," said Dr. Chu. "These hacks make it overly complicated, though. It's easier to measure the correct amount of medication and then add a small amount of chocolate syrup. The flavor is usually strong enough to mask the medication taste even better than the pharmacy flavor additives. It is not likely to have any interactions with medications that most children would be taking."

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