"Pedialyte Desserts" For Kids

If the children refuse the Pedialyte, mix it with a 1/2 serving size of their favorite, sweet food. For infants under age one, mix it into breast milk (the Pedialyte powder), or their infant formula. They can't have any honey, until age three.

Tell them that it's time for Pedialyte, and emphasize again to them, after they eat it, that it's definitely a Pedialyte dessert. Jam cookies can be whirled in a food processor with it. Then sprinkle it into a bit of whipped cream, pasteurized.

Serve it mixed into a fresh berries, granola, yogurt parfait. It can be mixed into jams, jellies, for PB and J sandwiches also. Homemade pastillas/pastilles lollipops (honey-free until age three) can be made with Pedialyte also. Mixing it with their favorite beverages, or turning it into Jello shapes also works sometimes.

***Sometimes, 5 year-old boys will drink raw, young, fresh coconut juice, if you give them a chance at opening it up, with supervision. They love power tools. Using a large drill bit, cleaned, non-toxic, non-rusty, and drill, may make them want to drink coconut water with Pedialyte powder mixed into, and maybe add those colorful, large, swirly straws into the coconut.

Sometimes, coconut shell fragments could pose a choking, or unhealthy risk to that though. Best to see if they're willing to take it in the waxed cartons (pure coconut water, over age one) at Whole Foods/Sprouts/Vitamin Cottage in the refrigerated section.

Don't be scared if the baby or toddler gets very fussy, upset, screams, then throws the baby bottle on the ground, or at you. If that occurs, gently get, log their ear temperature, on a dated sheet of paper with the time on it. Does it cause them extreme pain to have their ear temperature taken, and in which ear, or both?

Also try the entire baby-care routine: administration of logged (medications log sheet with recorded ear temperature, all medications, including infant fontanel check-list, for daily, 3x/day check marks) teething gel dose/infant gas drops: simethicone, offering a teething toy/frozen gel, teething ring, changing nappies, burping them, warm bath, with toys, or carrying the baby, in a baby carrier, singing to them, feeding them their breastmilk the way they're used to, from breasts, and patting their back gently.

If they are grabbing, or pulling at their ear, it may be an earache, or infection, so bring them to a doctor for a check-up. Try not to mask their fever, so their doctor can diagnose them more quickly. Until they are diagnosed, try warmed, soft, muslin cloths, put into ear muffs, on their head, so their ears feel warmer.

If their pediatrician doctor isn't on call, or a pediatric physician assistant isn't available, get to an urgent care clinic, or emergency room. Although masking a fever has disadvantages, so does increased risk for febrile seizures, however small. In flu season, never administer Aspirin, as it can cause Reye's Syndrome.

Sometimes a digestive problems, a tummy ache, can be strep throat, with an earache from a cold/allergies (postnasal drip, and smaller, eustaschian tube, causing other symptoms/they may have inserted a small, foreign object/bath toy piece into their ear).***