It is no secret that children do not enjoy taking medication. Parents plead, struggle, and even force-feed their children just to swallow the bad-tasting medicines they desperately need.
To lessen this challenge, pharmacists in California have been able to help parents and children skip the medication-time meltdown by adding flavoring to prescription medicines to help “make the medicine go down.”
under the age of 11 live in California —
these children typically take liquid
medications when they are sick
are flavored every year in California's
pharmacies, without a single reported
incident of harm over the past 20 years
currently offer medication
flavoring to families and customers
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