I know families where the children love to take medicine when they are ill. The Bloggs boys, on the other hand, have always treated the stuff like poison - "through my closed dead lips". So when the younger of the two came down with a bug that has hit a lot of the children in his school and started to retch his guts dry with an accompanying temperature straight from Hades, we offered him a some liquid paracetamol. This was after he could at least hold a couple of mouths of water down. Incredibly, he'd rather let his body burn than take the potion! Why? Because he doesn't like the taste. Being an increasingly firm believer in "the less medicine the better", we've let him have his way and he seems to have got over the worst. Still, I can never imagine wanting to willingly suffer rather than take a medicine I don't like the taste of. They're obviously made of stronger mettle!
Posted by Joe at April 17, 2004 11:47 PM