Most pills taste horrible when broken/ground up, even if you put it into something. I don't have a solution for pills unless you can get good-tasting chewable ones. Always ask your doctor or pharmacist if there is a liquid or capsule equivalent.. but be warned, you need to watch out for price differences between the two forms. If a pill is too big for the child to swallow, you could try cutting it in half, but you still need to get the child to swallow them. You could always try the Mary Poppins concept, and follow up the medicine with "a spoonful of sugar" or an equivalent 'bribe' or 'reward', something to make it fun or enjoyable if they won't take it simply because it will "make them feel better".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5IW9wK_HNg

If you open a capsule, you can mix it into applesauce and that's usually good as long as the contents arn't similar to a broken up pill. The contents of a capsule tend not to taste as bad as a ground up pill.

If it's a liquid medication, there are fairly good hollow-handle measuring medicine spoons that all you have to do is tilt back and zoom into the mouth/throat it goes. They're good for preventing spills, etc. as well as it helps to speedily get the medicine to the back of the throat and over the tongue, if its not the most tasteful stuff. http://www.google.com/products?hl=en&q=medicine+spoon
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I couldn't swallow pills for a majority of my life.


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