Crushing Tablets is not the Answer to Dysphagia
Dysphagia is an extremely widespread condition that can have an effect on the way people take their medicine. There are a variety of reasons why people can experience trouble in swallowing pills and medicine. Certain cases are the result of the affected person being very young. Dry mouth is a common cause of dysphagia and some people find the thought of swallowing a pill enough to cause problems.
Whatever the explanation for difficulties swallowing there’s a solution to the issue. Lots of people believe that the answer is simply crushing tablets to make them better to take. Although pill crushing might appear like a good idea there are several reasons why it isn’t.
One reason is that lots of pills are sugar coated to make them taste much more palatable. Crushing them takes away this coating and will make them taste rather unpleasant. Next some tablets have an enteric coating which was designed to hold them together while in the stomach. This is either to protect the medication from the stomach or the stomach from the medicine. Finally other capsules have a modified release process. This is to release the medication over longer period and reduce the total amount of medication that needs to be taken. Crushing tablets will release all of the medicine immediately.
Fortunately there is a solution to the issue of dysphagia and the swallowing difficulty it may cause. Using liquid drugs, liquid formulation and liquid medicine is shown to improve medicine management significantly. Liquid formulations are simple to swallow and come in a number of tasty flavours. They are available as an alternative for a number of pills and capsules used to treat many health problems.
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