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Show GIVING MEDICINE TO THE LITTLE ONES Babies Must Be Quiet Before Dose Is Administered, or Poison May Nauseate. Giving medicine to "children is one of the most difficult problems that young mothers have to cope with, for some little ones have such a horror of a dose that they work themselves into a condition con-dition of nervous illness before the medicine med-icine gets into their stomachs. And so it frequently nauseates them, thus making mak-ing successive doses harder to give. There is no question but that if a child shows a disposition to rebel against swallowing medicine the mental men-tal tussle must be gone through with and settled first that is. there Is no use in trying to give the dose while administering ad-ministering admonitions. The little one's stomach must be quiet, and this cannot be if he is in tears or is screaming. scream-ing. So when the child refuses it is essential essen-tial to put the medicine aside and to maice mm unuersiana inai me cure must be taken. He must not for an instant in-stant be permitted to think that he has gained his point and need not take it. To the contrary, he is given to understand under-stand that he is obliged to. and that the sooner he is quiet the better. Precisely Pre-cisely how this is to be accomplished depends upon individual temperament and the way each parent handles the babe. Sometimes, when the argument is prolonged, a spanking may be required. re-quired. One small girl who had three doses of this maternal discipline became be-came quiet and swallowed her medicine. medi-cine. There was never any trouble with her afterward, for she had been made to accept the fact that medicine, when u was Drougni to ner, was lo De taKen, and to fuss only made the condition worse. Coaxing works with some little lit-tle ones, with others punishment is required. re-quired. Each parent must decide this for herself. During the time that this matter of will contest is in progress the medicine is not administered. When the child has been conquered he must be given a few minutes to quiet sobs of temper, and then the dose must be given. If the sick child thinks, he cannot swallow medicine, no matter how much he may want to, he must be broken of this idea. He is apt to change his idea rather quickly, too, if he finds that each time he ejects the medicine a fresh dose is given. It takes a clever child only a few moments to realize that he is simply prolonging the agony. The notion some have that they cannot can-not swallow pills is likely to be imag ination, which ii is not always wen to give in to. If there is a reason for paying heed to it an easy way of obviating ob-viating is to give liquid instead, for there are few prescriptions that cannot be administered in this form. The old way of giving pills in jelly does not commend itself to present ideas. The sweet, combined with medicine, is apt to upset the stomach, causing nausea. To deceive a child about medicine and tell him it. is good is a great mistake. This may work once, but he will be suspicious sus-picious ever after. He should be made to understand that medicine is not a joke, but that it is less disagreeable than to be ill, and that whether he wishes or not he must take it. |