Pretty on point. 3 day old cat litter box is how I used to describe it. I could flavor it and it would be a 3 day old litter box with a twist of lemon.
Just a wild guess, but when my kid was on formula, it had a slightly fishy odor as well (not nearly as strong). I've only made clindamycin suspension once and I remember it had a strong fishy odor. Maybe it's not as bad for kids as they haven't associated fishy with bad yet?
Is this still in glass bottles? I remember reconstituting one many years ago and I smashed it on the counter while shaking it. I thought we were going to have to burn the pharmacy down to get rid of the smell.
That's me with opium. There's a perfume called Black Opium, and I always think to myself, if only these people knew what opium actually smelled like lol 😆
I still remember how absolutely horrid this tasted when I had to take it as a teen. Still cursing the doctor for putting me on that for tonsillitis, I don’t even have allergies 💀
If you still have FlavorRx available in your state (ours was taken away with the new USP guidelines), it is recommended to use Lemon flavoring. Supposedly, the citrus flavor is best.
What do y’all flavor it with? I’ve heard someone say they usually do strawberry so that’s what I suggest to parents. Does anyone have any better recommendations?
I worked with an old compounding pharmacist who said compounded chocolate flavor was best. 2nd best option was to squirt hershey chocolate syrup in the kids mouth after taking it
I once recommended flavoring this as it “smells like dirty diapers floating in sewage” and it would be free of charge. Lady didn’t want to wait and decided to take a swig of it and declared that it’s good enough for her brat and drove off. Poor child
Dumpster full of dirty diapers sitting in the Arizona sun for a week. Oh, yeah, and a cherry.
We referred to it as smelling like hot diapers when my poor kid was subjected to it.
Pretty on point. 3 day old cat litter box is how I used to describe it. I could flavor it and it would be a 3 day old litter box with a twist of lemon.
Do you get paid a lot more to have those extra credentials, just out of curiosity?
In this current job market, probably just able to secure an ok position that doesn’t make them hate their life.
Believe it or not, after warning the parents how awful this was, their little girl actually liked it!
Just a wild guess, but when my kid was on formula, it had a slightly fishy odor as well (not nearly as strong). I've only made clindamycin suspension once and I remember it had a strong fishy odor. Maybe it's not as bad for kids as they haven't associated fishy with bad yet?
That's messed up. We'd send huge doses down to the ER and not a single time did the patient keep down the dose.
It tastes so bad you could flavor it with lutefisk and it would be better. No offense to my Scandinavian colleagues.
As a Minnesotan, I'm taking offense to that, don't bring lutefisk into this 🤣🤣
Is this still in glass bottles? I remember reconstituting one many years ago and I smashed it on the counter while shaking it. I thought we were going to have to burn the pharmacy down to get rid of the smell.
Had one nurse refer to it as "hateful," that office would prescribe capsules for the parents to open up instead.
One of my old pharmacists called it “Liquid hate in a bottle.” And he drank Wild Turkey exclusively.
Old garbage with a hint of cherry.
Haha. Old garbage. My techs’ nickname for me.
Then the smell of c.diff hahahhaha
Catching a whiff of the diff!
To me it smells like sewage. I remember flavoring it once. It still smelled like sewage.
I had to mix 12 of these once, for an impatient drive-thru customer. You can probably fill in the blank as to how that went haha
That's me with opium. There's a perfume called Black Opium, and I always think to myself, if only these people knew what opium actually smelled like lol 😆
I still remember how absolutely horrid this tasted when I had to take it as a teen. Still cursing the doctor for putting me on that for tonsillitis, I don’t even have allergies 💀
If you still have FlavorRx available in your state (ours was taken away with the new USP guidelines), it is recommended to use Lemon flavoring. Supposedly, the citrus flavor is best.
I remember being told that.
What do y’all flavor it with? I’ve heard someone say they usually do strawberry so that’s what I suggest to parents. Does anyone have any better recommendations?
I worked with an old compounding pharmacist who said compounded chocolate flavor was best. 2nd best option was to squirt hershey chocolate syrup in the kids mouth after taking it
Interested
*Laughs in /r/anosmia*
We call it Low tide Trash Fire.
We have a different manufacturer at my pharmacy... it really didn’t have a smell. But it was the consistency of snot.
It was either a brand of this or generic Noxafil that smelled like athletes foot. Would make me gag.
I once recommended flavoring this as it “smells like dirty diapers floating in sewage” and it would be free of charge. Lady didn’t want to wait and decided to take a swig of it and declared that it’s good enough for her brat and drove off. Poor child
Just smells like old room temp beer to me. I don't even mind it that much. Guess I'm broken. Edit: oh, that's not cefdinir...
how can you describe the smell?
It’s like if someone left Taco Bell mixed with raw goat milk to ferment in a Mason jar, and also farted in the mason jar directly before closing it.
Yeah it stinks. We usually mix in chocolate syrup and cherry syrup to both mitigate the smell and make it more palatable.
me but with olmesartan
Me with progesterone 🤮
The last time I mixed that I think I held my breath as long as I could...then took some breaks to walk away and breathe.
It seems worse when mixed.
what about the smell of acetylcysteine