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Difficulty in Swallowing Caused by Dysphagia

Dysphagia (difficulty in swallowing) is a common issue for patients of every age group and their carers. There are various causes and explanations for dysphagia. Dry mouth is a common explanation and one that can make swallowing anything difficult. The character of different health issues may also cause swallowing difficulties and some sufferers are too young to swallow anything in a solid form.

Whatever the explanation for difficulties swallowing there's a solution to the situation. A lot of people think that the answer is simply to crush pills so that they are easier to take. Although tablet crushing might appear like a good idea there are many reasons why it is not.

One of the reasons is that some pills use a sugar coating that helps to make them taste much better. Crushing capsules with a sugar coating will remove the coating and make them taste very unpleasant to put it mildly. Another reason is that some pills and tablets are designed to have an enteric coating. The intention of this is to keep the medicine together while it is in the stomach. This can be either to defend the medicine from the stomach or the other way around. Finally other pills 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 capsules will release all the medicine at once.

Fortunately there's a solution to swallowing problems and dysphagia. Using liquid drugs, liquid formulation and liquid medicine is shown to improve medicine management substantially. They make it easy for people of every age group to take their prescribed treatments and they are available as an alternative for a number of pills and tablets.

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