Yep - oral prednisone elixirs taste awful. The thing I have found that works
the best it to use chocolate milk and add the syrup until it masks the taste
( a lot). Sometimes it is better to just get the pills, crush them, and put
them on a spoon with the chocolate syrup. He shouldn't be on the oral
prednisone for long (one would hope). The singulair you can crush and put in
whatever soft food he eats - yogurt, pudding, apple sauce, etc. It should
not be as hard since it does not taste as bad.

The Pulmicort is an inhaled steroid. It is acting similarly to the Orapred.
The idea is that if they use the inhaled product not as much goes to the
rest of the body and causes side effects. The Singulair is also a
preventative but it acts differently (blocks a mediator if inflammation
called leukotrienes) and so is given to increase control while trying to
minimize the dose of steroids.

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CBI, MD

My son is 17 months and has been on singular for 2 months now. We used
to crush it up in applesauce and he never even noticed. Now he is off
applesauce due to the whims of a toddler so I just had him the pill to
eat. Somewhere along the way he got the idea that it was a treat.
Maybe give him some fruit snacks and that with them so he makes the
connection? (most likely reinforcing the issue so many kids have that
medicine is candy, but I think they go through this regardless of what
you do here.) Since it doesn't seem to have a bad taste it shouldn't
be too hard. Getting him with the process/routine is the hardest part.
We try to do everything in the same order, same time of day but not
connected to him getting ready for bed or a meal.

Allie