I'm not talking as an LC or an LLL Leader here - this is just years of
experience as a mom who had THREE babies with lots of ear infections.  By the
third one I'd finally learned a few tricks.... :-)  .... and pharmacies had
started stocking some nifty gadgets too.  There's a "medicine syringe" sold
at pharmacies, consisting of two pieces, a rubber cone-shaped stopper that
fits into the mouth of a medication bottle (the cone shape is so it will fit
various bottle sizes), and a syringe with a blunt end that holds about 10cc.
 Put the stopper in the bottle, then draw up the medication in the syringe.
 You MUST push on the syringe's plunger to get medicine into the baby.  It
won't drip or spill.  In this way, you can put just a few drops at a time
into the baby's mouth;  you can even try sneaking the syringe tip into the
corner of the baby's mouth while nursing, as if it were a curved dental-type
syringe.  One other note:  have YOU tasted Suprax?  It is godawful!  The
taste of Suprax convinced my 7-yr-old to learn to swallow BIG pills.
 Obviously this isn't a solution for a five month old.... but if you get the
syringe technique to work you might want to consider adding a little apple
juice or SOMEthing you think would be OK for the baby to have, to try and cut
the nasty taste.  Good luck!  Ear infections are a pain....

Mary Renard