Infant malaria liquid - drawing a blank

[kiethton]

Not sure if this is the right forum but my Google-fu is drawing a blank.

Need to get some malaria tablets for my 2.5yr old ahead of a trip to KNP in November. When we were there in January getting her to take a tablet was impossible.

I've been googling for a liquid form of the same medication as (I hope) she'll gulp it down as she does other liquid medicines but not finding anything - we generally mail-order the tablets.

Anybody know if anything or am I resorting to cutting up and hiding them in haribos/Weetabix again (she found them and spat it out last time!!!)

[sherman]

Crush it with a spoon.
Mix it with a scoop of jam.
Make airplane or train noise .
Daughter opens mouth
Eats "jam."
Job jobbed

[ucb]

Type the drug into here and it will give you a list of medicinal forms

Bnf.nice.org.uk

[kiethton]

Thanks guys, appreciated

[Peanut Gallery]

Note that crushing it makes it taste - - absolutely vile - 30+ years later I can still recall the taste.

I could not cope with taking the tablet, I would rather have malaria than the side effects of the tablets - so I took it in liquid form - the dose for my size was 2,5 bottles taken weekly, it was the same stuff as the tablet, so I crushed a tablet and drank that - only limited side effects but at 12 years old or so I understood the taste and the necessity of taking it.

[The_Doc]

There are multiple different medicines to prevent Malaria.
Each is different. Taste, size, formulation, solubility, etc

Medicine for kids is often quite different to medicine for adults, often not "same stuff, smaller dose"

The British National Formulary BNF is a dictionary/recipe book for all UK drugs.

And the British National Formulary For Kids BNFC is going to be even more helpful when you chat this over with a pharmacist. Not on the Internet

https://bnfc.nice.org.uk/

Edited by The_Doc on Tuesday 30th September 12:35