Any magic tricks for liquid antibiotics?

My civvie Thompson had a dental extraction for a broken tooth last week. He broke it in an epileptic seizure. He ended up with an infection a few days after and had to have it cleaned out and put it on liquid antibiotics. The vet told me that we could doesn't taste very good so getting the antibiotics and has been a big struggle. Poor kitty is super stressed when it comes to antibotic time so I'm just wondering if anybody has magic tricks for making med administration time more pleasant for him and me!

He doesn't really want anything to do with me at this point even when I try to pet him or anything. It's very sad!

 

Are you using a syringe? An eye dropper?
I find a syringe works better.
However, I get meds in pill/capsule form and usually piut them into a gel cap and use a pill gun.

 

I'm using a syringe...

 

What problem(s) are you having?
Spitting the meds out?
What specific med? Some meds taste terrible.

 

You could try giving a chaser with a second syringe filled with (a) a bit of water, (b) a bit of tuna water (make sure the tuna is packed in water, not broth which has onions), (c) a small amount of cat food gravy or sauce.

 

It's clindamycin. Ya he spits it out. Having a hard time getting his little mouth open

 

Clindamycin tastes terrible. My vet said to add some artificial sweetener and to refrigerate it.

 

Shoot it over the hump of the tonge so he doesnt taste it as much. I grip the head covering the eyes and use the syringe to open mouth at the side and deposit meds as far back in the mouth as possible..behind where they curl the tongue to a hump.

 

Oh clindamycin liquid is AWFUL! They make a tiny pill that may be available thru your human pharmacy. None of mine can take the liquid, they foam, they gag, they throw up, they won't eat...YUCK! I feel bad for you....but it's a good med.

HUGS

 

Your vet might be able to get you a pill. My dental vet gave me the choice of liquid or pill for clindamycin. I squirted it along the side of the mouth, trying to miss the taste buds on the tongue.

 

I've just had to syringe painkillers in the local stray's mouth. You need to figure out the best way to hold him first. For Frankie and his painkillers I cradle him like a baby but the stray won't do that. I have to have him standing on my knee with one hand around his throat (not tight obvs!!) The syringing is the same - put the syringe in the side of the mouth up to the clenched teeth then squirt a little bit. He has to open his mouth to swallow and then you insert the syringe a bit more and squirt a bit more etc until it is all gone.

 

I vote for a pill and put that in a gel cap dabbed with butter---who doesn't like butter?