As much as pharmaceutical companies try to make their products taste good by adding cherry, grape, or bubble gum flavoring, some children are still going to attempt to spit it back out. Here are a few tips to try to get the medicine in your child and keep it in: Disguise the medicine. You can accomplish this by adding the medicine to a flavorful juice or applesauce. Drop it into the back of their throat. You can use a medicine dropper to get it as far back in your child's mouth as possible. If you're worried they will still attempt to spit it out, you can gently hold their cheeks shut after squirting it. Try a different form of medicine. If your child is likely to spit out a liquid, try it in a chewable tablet instead. If they spit out the chewable tablet, you can try crushing it up and adding a little water to create a paste-like substance. You can then insert the paste onto their cheek to encourage swallowing the medicine.