Can someone please send me the info on the Pill Shooter? I looked in the message

archives with no luck. Thanks so much!



Take care,

Christina





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Hi Christina:

   I bought a pill shooter from Petsmart.  It was

actually called "Pill Gun" by the manufacturer

Top Dog (I think). They actually had two different

kinds and I bought the one that had the clip at the

end of the shooter (to fasten the pill) and could be

filled up with a little water.  I used to place the

contents of pills on his food which I'm sure tasted

awful and so when I was teaching him, I would ask him

if he wanted to have the contents of the pill placed

in his food or swallow a pill and he would say "swallow".

So then I used the pill shooter and didn't put the

contents in his food if he swallowed the pill.  It only took two

days for him to learn how to swallow, so I think the key to teaching

the kids is for them to learn to place the pill far back in their

throat that it can be swallowed easily.  That is a difficult task

for my son since he has a lot of oral sensitivity.  Hope this

helps.  Take Care, Becky





> Can someone please send me the info on the Pill Shooter? I looked

in the message archives with no luck. Thanks so much!

>

> Take care,

> Christina

Here is a website that describes a pill "gun":

http://petplace.netscape.com/articles/artShow.asp?artID=2173



I guess if you had a cup of water handy, this might work.  It is

similar to how we taught ethan how to swallow a pill.  We put tiny

white homeopathic pills in the end of a straw and then had him open

wide and we blew the pill to the back of the tongue, and after a few

tries, he got the idea that he could swallow a pill.



I have also read that putting the pill UNDER the tongue and then

giving them the glass of water to drink can work because for some

reason, the mouth lets the pill out with the water and then the child

can swallow it down easily.



MaryW



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<chris50@n...> wrote:

> Can someone please send me the info on the Pill Shooter? I looked

in the message archives with no luck. Thanks so much!

Thank you so much Becky! Will be going there tomorrow.



Take care,

Christina

:)







   Hi Christina:

     I bought a pill shooter from Petsmart.  It was

   actually called "Pill Gun" by the manufacturer

   Top Dog (I think). They actually had two different

   kinds and I bought the one that had the clip at the

   end of the shooter (to fasten the pill) and could be

   filled up with a little water.  I used to place the

   contents of pills on his food which I'm sure tasted

   awful and so when I was teaching him, I would ask him

   if he wanted to have the contents of the pill placed

   in his food or swallow a pill and he would say "swallow".

   So then I used the pill shooter and didn't put the

   contents in his food if he swallowed the pill.  It only took two

   days for him to learn how to swallow, so I think the key to teaching

   the kids is for them to learn to place the pill far back in their

   throat that it can be swallowed easily.  That is a difficult task

   for my son since he has a lot of oral sensitivity.  Hope this

   helps.  Take Care, Becky







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Thank you Mary! Will check the website out. Thanks for the great ideas as well.

:)



Take care,

Christina







   Here is a website that describes a pill "gun":

   http://petplace.netscape.com/articles/artShow.asp?artID=2173



   I guess if you had a cup of water handy, this might work.  It is

   similar to how we taught ethan how to swallow a pill.  We put tiny

   white homeopathic pills in the end of a straw and then had him open

   wide and we blew the pill to the back of the tongue, and after a few

   tries, he got the idea that he could swallow a pill.



   I have also read that putting the pill UNDER the tongue and then

   giving them the glass of water to drink can work because for some

   reason, the mouth lets the pill out with the water and then the child

   can swallow it down easily.



   MaryW



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   > Can someone please send me the info on the Pill Shooter? I looked

   in the message archives with no luck. Thanks so much!







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Got mine at PetSmart. It's actually for giving you animals their medication and

being able to keep your fingers. Cost $5.99

Karyn

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   Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2003 10:33 PM

   Subject: [Autism-Mercury] Pill Shooter





   Can someone please send me the info on the Pill Shooter? I looked in the

message archives with no luck. Thanks so much!



   Take care,

   Christina





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Hi Karyn:

   Were you the person who originally suggested the Pill Shooter??

Thank you so much for that suggestion.  It has made it so much

easier to give our 9 year old son any supplement, especially since I

can put whatever I want to give him (at any dose) in a veggie cap.

Great suggestion!!!  Thank you-Thank you-Thank you!!  Becky

Your welcome. It has done the same for us. She was 2 at the time we started it

and hadn't eaten/drank in 4 days. I was running out of options. I'm glad this

has worked for you, I actually felt bad because it does sound 'brutal', but it

was the last resort.  It's good for travel too. When we travel on weekends or

camp/hike, it's nothing to put her caps in a pillcase and stick the shooter in

there. Easier than ten thousand bottles - for me anyways!!!



Karyn

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   Subject: [Autism-Mercury] Re: Pill Shooter-Karyn





   Hi Karyn:

     Were you the person who originally suggested the Pill Shooter??

   Thank you so much for that suggestion.  It has made it so much

   easier to give our 9 year old son any supplement, especially since I

   can put whatever I want to give him (at any dose) in a veggie cap.

   Great suggestion!!!  Thank you-Thank you-Thank you!!  Becky





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Hi Karyn:

   Were you the person who originally suggested the Pill Shooter??

Thank you so much for that suggestion.  It has made it so much

easier to give our 9 year old son any supplement, especially since I

can put whatever I want to give him (at any dose) in a veggie cap.

Great suggestion!!!  Thank you-Thank you-Thank you!!  Becky

My alternative dr recommended that we do a DMPS challenge to see how

mercury is in my son's system.



Has anyone tried this test?



Please email me privately with your opinions as to whether my son

shouldhave the DMPS challenge or not.



Thank you,



Mary



ps his thinkins was that if my son shows high mercury levels , then he

would go thru chelation

> My alternative dr recommended that we do a DMPS challenge to see how

> mercury is in my son's system.

>

> Has anyone tried this test?

>

> Please email me privately with your opinions as to whether my son

> shouldhave the DMPS challenge or not.



No.



See www.dmpsbackfire.com



Besides the test is totally useless diagnostically.  It is just a scam

ot convince you of what the doc already has decided but doesn't think

you will believe unless he does some play acting to make it seem

scientific.

>

> Thank you,

>

> Mary

>

> ps his thinkins was that if my son shows high mercury levels , then

he

> would go thru chela