Dysphagia ( swallowing difficulties) is a problem for lots of patients and also the people who look after them. There are many causes and explanations for dysphagia. Dry mouth is a very common explanation and one that will make taking anything hard. For other patients the nature of their illness can cause swallowing difficulties and some patients are simply too young to take pills and tablets in a solid form.
Should you or someone you know suffers from swallowing troubles there’s a solution to the problem. Lots of people think that the answer is simply to crush tablets so that they are easier to take. There are many reasons why pill crushing isn’t the answer to dysphagia.
One reason is that lots of pills are sugar coated to make them taste much more palatable. Crushing them removes this coating and will make them taste very unpleasant. Another reason is that some pills and tablets are designed to have an enteric coating. The purpose of this is to keep the medication together while it is in the stomach. This is either to defend the medication from the stomach or stomach from the medicine. Finally other tablets have a modified release process. This is to release the medicine over a longer time period and reduce the total amount of medicine that must be taken. Crushing pills will release all of the medicine at the same time.
Fortunately there is a solution to the problem of dysphagia and the swallowing difficulty it may cause. The use of liquid drugs, liquid formulation and liquid medicine is shown to improve medicine management considerably. Liquid formulations are really easy to swallow and come in several tasty flavours. They are available as an alternative for a variety of pills and capsules used to treat many illnesses.
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