Sunday, July 13, 2014

How To Swallow Pills In An Easy Way

By Rosella Campbell


Diluting in soda, mashed pills in bananas, and dissolving the tablets in milk are just some of the ways for most parents to let their children swallow their medications. Perhaps, you have also experienced these scenarios in your younger years. Swallowing tablets and pills lies ahead on the methods and techniques used or applied. This system teaches gradual steps on how to swallow pills of different sizes.

For your little ones, make sure they have a good swallowing reflexes. It means that you have to make sure that your kid will be able to ingest the water without difficulties. Let your child drink a quantity of water. Let them swallow the tablets directly to their throat and help them not to spit the tablets out.

If there are no issues about taking water, let the child ingest a multicolored candy ball pills. There are children that do not need to start on swallowing with smaller sizes. Any child can start on the right size pill that he can conveniently ingest. However, when they start in big sizes, it can enable them to move up quickly without wasting water. You should praise them for their efforts and success.

It is not only young children who are having difficulties in taking tablets. There are lots of adults that need to exert more effort just to take the tablets successfully. If you are having a hard time for this, you use simple, but effective method. You may start using the method of using your favorite food. Chew a food, place the pill in your mouth and consume. Make sure that the food you eat is not conflicting with the medication you are taking, since there are some medications that needs an empty stomach before taking them.

Cut a cheese bun and insert the tablet. This really works all the time. You can also use either a bread or a dough. Try to consume the buns and enjoy eating. Once it is in your throat, you quickly drink an enough amount of water. It is just simple as that.

Peanut butter or honey lovers would prefer to use their favorite food in taking pills. All you have to do is to get a spoon, put the pill in the center and cover it with honey or peanut butter. It depends on your preference. After consuming it, you may drink a soda or any other liquid substance.

You may also swallow a piece of candy. You can repeat the process until you are comfortable with it. Move to another size of candy for about ten minutes and try to repeat this until you can comfortably swallow a piece of candy with the same size of the pill you need to take.

Once you are taking medications, it is not necessary to take them in an empty stomach. You can also take them without eating something. Thus, after taking your tablets, you can immediately drink or sip a soda to pull the pill down in an easy way. You must drink a cool water and not a cold one.

You have the choice to drink any kind of juices instead of drinking water. Evaluate first if the juices are good to your medications. There are some people who would love to drink soda or beverages with a straw because it can help to pull and for the tablets to be ingested easily.




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