Take Antibiotics
A course of antibiotics makes two demands at once: swallowing something that tastes bad, and doing it at exactly the same times day after day until the box is empty. The visual support below makes both parts easier to keep up.
♀Take antibiotics
A child holds a pill and a glass of water next to a medicine bottle.
About this visual support
What makes a course hard is rarely a single dose, but that it must be repeated the same way every time, even once the child starts feeling better and no longer sees the point. The taste does not improve for being familiar, and set times in the middle of play or bedtime often meet resistance. Yet it is precisely the regularity that decides whether the course works.
Visual support makes the invisible course visible. A row of pictures, one for each dose from first to last, shows the child how far they have come and how little is left. The abstract take it until it runs out becomes a concrete stretch to work through, and every completed dose becomes a step you can see.
Tie the dose to a fixed anchor the child already has, like after brushing teeth morning and evening, so you avoid a new time to remember and the medicine rides along with a habit that already exists. To set up the whole course with one picture per day and a timer for the right times, you can build it in the Routined app.