Tough to get your kid to take medicine? An expert offers tips

Medical X-Press – Staff Writer

One expert who spends part of her workday guiding parents through this challenge offers some suggestions to make the ordeal easier. 

Emily Glarum, a childlife specialist at the Heart Institute at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, offers these tips: Be honest, practice it, provide choices, set a schedule and let the child take little sips or use a straw.

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