hep?help? i cant swallow tablets and capsules?

Question

i try but i just cant do it
give sincere advise

Answer 1

Here are a few tips:

ADD FOOD
- Put the pill inside something slippery like a small cube of jello, which should slide down your throat easily with a drink of water.
- Wrap the pill in a small piece of bread and swallow the bread with the pill inside.
- Try taking the pill with a spoonful of pudding or applesauce.

DIVIDE OR CRUSH
- Check with your doctor to see if you can cut your pills in half or crush them to make them easier to swallow. If so, get a pill cutter and cut the pills into smaller pieces before you take them. Or crush the pills and mix them into a drink or applesauce. (never divide or crush a time-release pill)

LEARN HOW TO SWALLOW EFFECTIVELY
- Instead of putting the pill on the mouth or throat, place it on your tongue. Place the pill on the tip of the tongue, and then take a sip of water or juice. Then tilt your chin down toward your chest (looking down) so that the pill floats to the back of your mouth and swallow.

*** Avoid lying down for at least thirty minutes after taking your pill. Lying down immediately after taking a pill can make you feel like it's "stuck" in your throat (even though it's not), and can delay the pill's journey to the stomach. You'll feel more comfortable if you wait a half hour or more before lying down.

MOISTEN YOUR THROAT
Sip a little water or juice to moisten your throat first. Pills go down better when your throat is moist, and the moisture keeps pills from sticking to the mouth. Moisture makes pill surfaces more slippery and easier to swallow.

TAKE A MEDIUM SIP
When you take a sip of water or juice immediately before swallowing, take a medium sip. A big sip makes it more difficult to swallow. A very small sip will not be enough to float the pill down the esophagus. After you swallow, drink the remainder of a glass of water or juice to help the pill dissolve more quickly in your stomach.

USE COOL LIQUIDS
Take pills with cool water or juice. Avoid hot liquids, which can dissolve the pills before they reach your stomach, causing throat irritation.

STRENGTHEN YOUR NECK MUSCLES.
-Use this simple exercise that has shown to strengthen the neck
muscles that open the throat during swallowing:

Lie flat on your back and raise your head high enough to see
your toes without raising your shoulders. Hold this position for
one minute, and then relax. Repeat twice more. After resting, repeatedly raise your head and look at your toes without raising your shoulders. Do this a total of 30 times.
(This is one set)

Each set takes about ten minutes. Make it a goal to do 3 sets spread throughout the day. (Start with one set and work gradually up to three sets over a period of several days if it is difficult for you.)
After 2-3 weeks of performing 3 sets of this exercise daily, people in the study found that their ability to swallow was dramatically improved.

Try it and see how your throat opens up.

Answer 2

Swallow with liquid or food and ignore the tablet; while mixing it in with what you are about to swallow. Remember that the gulp of drink or food is much larger as a whole then a little capsule. Also drink or eat a practice run first to wet your mouth and throat and make sure the pill gets wet with what you are swallowing it with.

Answer 3

Hi , I would talk to a Pharmacist.If it is a tablet and is NOT a timed release tablet, then you can cut it in half, or crush it and mix it with applesauce or honey.Some capsules ARE time released so you can't open them to pour the contents out to mix with something.The ones that aren't though you can.Call a Pharmacist at any local Pharmacy.Better yet, take the pills in with you in their original bottle and talk to a Pharmacist in person.They have ideas that have proven sucessful in these cases. Good Luck

Answer 4

My husband has the same problem, he uses a pill crusher so that he can swallow them. For capsules, you might want to try wrapping them in a piece of food or mushed up crackers. He's been able to get them down a couple of times that way.

Answer 5

take a bite of food, chew it, then place your capsule in the back of your tongue, then swallow what you have been chewing.
This works best with something you really like to eat, and make sure you've eaten a few bites of food before trying the capsule.
good luck and all

Answer 6

If they are tablets, try getting one of those pill splitters from the Rx. cut it in half, and try that,,,.capsules,, put them as far back on your tongue and take a big swallow of water.. if it feels like its stuck,, eat a slice of bread with lots of water.. you have to relax your throat.. or it makes it harder to swallow

Answer 7

If its not time released crush as fine as possible and mix with 1 tablespoon of applesauce or pudding. If your MD is prescribing ask for a liquid version or a liquid equivalent

Answer 8

place your head back , open your mouth and drop the tablets in ,take a large swallow of lemonade, they will go down

Answer 9

I actually told a friend of mine with the same problem to plug her nose while she was taking her pills and it worked for her. You never know...

Answer 10

It takes practice. You can cut them up smaller, or mash them and take them with jam on a spoon. But you will eventually be able to take them with practice.