Liquid Medications and Oral Syringe use

[John Popp]

Just wanted to share this as we have a regular routine with medicating one of our boys with an oral syringe. We have been doing this 3x a day for better than a year with one medication that we can't successfully mix with his food. Lots of little things you find along the way that makes things easier and a new human flavor (grape) in his medication was making Dooley a little more feisty than normal.

So here's a couple images, and I'm sure some have figured it out before, but it just makes holding the oral syringe steady a lot easier. Fewer spills and guesswork when you miss and just overall more confidence.

The way we used to do it.

The way we do it now.

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Certainly seems simple enough, not sure why it took us over a year to figure it out.

 

[admin]

Just wanted to share this as we have a regular routine with medicating one of our boys with an oral syringe. We have been doing this 3x a day for better than a year with one medication that we can't successfully mix with his food. Lots of little things you find along the way that makes things easier and a new human flavor (grape) in his medication was making Dooley a little more feisty than normal.

So here's a couple images, and I'm sure some have figured it out before, but it just makes holding the oral syringe steady a lot easier. Fewer spills and guesswork when you miss and just overall more confidence.

The way we used to do it.

The way we do it now.

​

Certainly seems simple enough, not sure why it took us over a year to figure it out.

Thanks for sharing...


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[Patti]

LOL, yes the 2nd way is definitely more successful, especially when you have a cat trying to smack it out of your hand with their paws!

 

[John Popp]

Yes, I rest the heel of my hand on his cheek and there isn't any sunshine between his tongue and his meds. I'm also able to get it in his mouth between his teeth so he no longer is chewing off the end of the syringe. If this clever shark was to get his belly cut open, I'm sure there are 30 or so of those syringe tips in there.

Still can't believe I was so slow to figure it out.