meds

Getting the girls to take their meds is becoming a project.  Up to this point - we have had very few problems getting them to take any kind of medication.  Occasionally one of them might put up a fuss but for the most part - it's been a fight over who's gonna get it 1st!  This new med their taking tastes awful so they're not so easy to be 1st in line anymore.  So far I've had to give 6 doses (x3) + 2 rounds of double doses due to throwing it right back up.  So 24 rounds all together.  This is day 2.  We have 19 more days ahead of us.  I have tried giving the meds 1st followed with an M&M (this is usually the way we get them to take 'yucky' medicine).  They threw this round up.  So we tried the meds followed by yogurt.  It worked but they didn't like it any more.  I've put food coloring in the meds to make it 'fun'.  I have put the meds IN applesauce and also IN yogurt.  I have tried giving them a 'chaser' of M&M's, candy corn and again - yogurt and applesauce.  Tonight it was green meds (it's fun and they are more into taking their meds when they can choose what color they are) followed by chocolate milk in shot glasses.  Yes - actual shot glasses.  Again...it's fun.  They also had straws cut to size these shot glasses thanks to LB.  They took their med, drank the milk and chased it all down with a mini snickers.  Nothing came back up.  But I can only assume this will work once and probably won't work again so I'm already trying to think of new ways to get them to take their medicine.  How on earth do you get kids to take medicine?!?! 

I talked to the doctor today and the girls will considered contagious until they finish their antibiotics and the symptoms don't come back.  No school and no play dates.  POOP (literally).  I'll be home with them.