I put that in capitals for people who advise mums on how to give medicines. Babies quickly get used to taking medication. If children have medication from when they are tiny then it doesn't seem to be any problem in getting them to swallow it - they take it for granted that they have their medicine. Starting older children can be much more difficult. Here is a brief overview of general opinions of drug formulations we have used at the Mildmay over the last year.
Taste is particularly difficult to report - especially as childrens taste is different to adults.
Some drugs with less information reflect the fact that we haven't used them so much. The kids like this. It is a clear liquid. Newborns have it in syringe and some of them are uncertain about swallowing a syringe full of stuff, but if you put the dummy in afterwards they suck away at it. We find different centres sending children to us have different regimens and some take it twice a day and some four times a day.