feed medicine

[Tan Elaine]

Can 'feed' be used with regard to giving medicine?

Eg, I feed my baby son medicine three times a day.

Thanks.

 

[SoothingDave]

No, you give medicine or administer it.

 

[5jj]

Or, if they are anything like my offspring were, you force it down their throats.

 

[Rover_KE]

Or, if they are anything like my offspring were, you force it down their throats.

:loling:
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[Tan Elaine]

:loling:

 

[abaka]

Which is of course a funny way of feeding them. "I feed them their medicine" is correct if you want to conjure the image of your opening their mouths like a horse's, and stuffing the stuff in.

 

[5jj]

Which is of course a funny way of feeding them. "I feed them their medicine" is correct if you want to conjure the image of your opening their mouths like a horse's, and stuffing the stuff in.

I agree.