For my most recent lung infection my doctor prescribed Vicodin cough syrup. (Codeine hasn’t worked for me in at least ten years, probably more.) It’s DELICIOUS, though I imagine if you didn’t have a sweet tooth you wouldn’t think so. It tastes like liquid cotton candy and vanilla. Seriously the best tasting medicine I’ve ever had. Plus it killed the cough. I mostly took it at night, though, since it made me kind of dopey.
My 18 month old LOVES infant Tylenol. I don’t think she’s figured out it makes her feel better, but grape or cherry it doesn’t matter. She sees that bottle coming and she opens her mouth like a baby bird.
I loved this as a kid too! Unfortunately I only got to take it once, it broke me out in hives. A few years ago I worked at a store that sold bubble gum ice cream that tasted like it, and it was awesome.
Edited to add: Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory. If you have one nearby and like amoxicillin, consider trying the bright blue bubblegum ice cream!
I don’t remember having any meds as a child, but my sister Diane at 2 years old came into the kitchen and told my mother that she would never be sick again-- she had eaten the whole bottle of orange-flavoured children’s aspirin. Immediate rush to the nearby hospital, stomach pump, the whole works. Those were the days before child-proof caps.
That’s “pepsin” flavor, and it used to be popular enough to be a common hard candy and gum flavor. It’s still around in a few old-timey gum and lozenge brands. Have no idea how it’s related to the digestive enzyme, perhaps it’s due to the supposed stomach-calming effect of the flavor. Vaguely minty, though I disagree with comments I see online that equate the pepsin with wintergreen.
Cherry Luden’s and Smith Brothers cough drops-- glorified candies both-- taste darn good.
Calpol. Phenergan. Yum. Oh, and gripe water, which I still insist on having in the house though I’m very much an adult, have no children, and seldom suffer from digestive discomfort.
Tussionex actually has hydrocodone, not codeine. It might work as a cough suppressant for many, but I think in my case it just makes me not give a damn that I’m sick. But yeah, it’s tasty stuff thanks in no small part to the high fructose corn syrup that’s in it as well.
I’ve tried to drink enough of it to get to the not give a damn stage, but it always makes me sick (and I’m NO stranger to lots o hydrocodone) and it makes me feel like a zombie the next day. I usually take about a teaspoon and it works wonders…and it tastes soooo good. (Like others have said about other things, I could drink the whole bottle if it wouldn’t kill me)
Yep, I loved me some Phenergan when I had my last bronchitis. It’s yellow, super-syrupy, mildly sedating and bizarrely sweet. Not only that, but it made me not cough. That ain’t easy to do - my bouts with Da Bronk tend to run weeks at a time.
I did the same when I was some very young age ( less than four, certainly ) - loved the stuff. I recall vomiting it back up, but I no longer remember if it was induced or it just irritated my stomach enough it came back on its own.
I still do like the taste of regular aspirin and take it as my mild painkiller of choice.
When I was a kid there was a children’s laxative, presumably castor oil based, called Castoria. A couple of times I faked constipation to get some, it tasted like birch beer. Not root beer, but specifically the increasingly difficult to find delight that is birch beer.
But at that time I’d never had birch beer, so I didn’t know that I could have that flavor another way. I didn’t go for a third try when I realized what taking a laxative unnecessarily did to the system.
When I was a youngster in the 50s there was a cough medicine called “Cheracol” that had the most wonderful cherry flavor. I would sometimes go into the medicine cabinet and sneak a spoonful or two because it tasted so good. It’s a wonder more kids didn’t OD back then. Or maybe they did? When and why was the childproof cap introduced?
The elixer form of Dilantin comes in an orange sorbety type flavour. Smells wonderful and my patients usually take it no problems. I tasted a bit on a toothpick when I was in nursing school (my paediatiric rotation clinical supervisor made us taste test everything we gave kids but I passed on any sulfa-drug based thing… anaphylaxis ain’t my bag) and it even tastes good. But Im not looking to get seizure disorder to get more.
In my own life I have to second the brand named Advil (and you can dry swallow with a hangover, or other headache + nausea conditions) and also Cherry Ludends. I can add my Maxalt wafers which I take sparingly and rarely for migranes. Vaugely vanilla-mint flavoured, disolves quickly almost no aftertaste… and generally works. However even with my drug plan they still work out to be about 5.00 each so they arent exactly snack-a-licious. ( I think without my drug plan they would have been around $130 for six.)