Why I love Target Pharmacy...

There isn't a mom out there that likes to give medication to their kids.  If you have ever spilled a bottle of antibiotic and WISHED there was a better way, I can tell you THERE IS!  Most pharmacy's give you a wide mouth medication bottle.  It can be a very difficult sticking your syringe down into the pink medication and trying to fill it. 

At your local Target pharmacy they have the best solution, and it is FREE with your prescription.   All of their liquid medications come with a stopper with a dosing hole for the syringe.  It looks just like the stopper you have in Italian dressing bottles.  You can easily fill the correct medication dose with a syringe.  It makes dosing is so much easier.  An added bonus at your Target pharmacy is that you can request flavors to be put into your medication.  They have all kinds of flavors, but I have heard from a pharmacist that the grape flavor hides the nasty taste of medications the best.   If you are going to have sick kids, and have to give them medication for 10 days, why not make it easier on yourself! 

You can also purchase a kit with the dosing stopper caps at this link.
http://www.dogehouses.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=41&products_id=203
It does come from a dog website, but as long as you boil sterilize the product before use, you will not have any problems. 

As an added bonus, I want to tell you about limiting the drowning of your salads.  It is in regards to the same looking stopper.  "Wish Bone" salad dressing is my favorite dressing.  Usually my children try to pour their own dressing on their salads, and they get a GUSH of dressing. Their plates can be completely covered with dressing.  I have found that pulling you can pull out your stoppers from your Italian dressing bottles, and put them on your thicker dressings.  This helps my children to pour their OWN dressing on their salads.  The stopper saves the day every time!  Just use a butter knife to pull the stopper off.  Getting the stopper off might be a little tricky the first time, so use a cutting board.  Make sure you WASH the stopper so you don't cross contaminate.  You will be amazed at how much less salad dressing is wasted with just a little tiny stopper cap! 

Enjoy!