Difficulties Swallowing Caused by Dysphagia

Dysphagia ( swallowing difficulties) is an issue for many patients as well as the people who take care of them. There are various causes and explanations for dysphagia. Dry mouth is a common explanation and one that will make taking anything difficult. For other patients the nature of their health issues can cause swallowing difficulties and some patients are just too young to take pills and tablets in a solid form.

Whatever the reason for difficulties swallowing there’s a solution to the issue. While at first it may seem that the solution is crushing tablets to ensure they are easier to take it is definitely not so. Although pill crushing might appear like a good idea there are several reasons why it is not.

A primary reason is that some tablets use a sugar coating which helps to make them taste much better. Crushing them takes away this coating and will make them taste very unpleasant. Secondly some capsules have an enteric coating which is designed to hold them together while in the stomach. This can be either to guard the medication from the stomach or the other way around. Finally other pills have a modified release process. This is to release the medicine over longer period and reduce the total amount of medication that needs to be taken. Crushing tablets will release all the medicine immediately.

Fortunately there’s a solution to swallowing difficulties and dysphagia. The employment of liquid drugs, liquid formulation and liquid medicine is shown to improve medication management substantially. They make it easy for people of various age groups to take their prescribed treatments and they are available as a replacement for a variety of pills and capsules.

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