Liquid Medicine for Patients with Swallowing Difficulties
Posted By Sarte on January 10, 2012
Dysphagia ( swallowing difficulties) is a problem for many patients as well as the people who take care of them. There are a variety of underlying reasons for the problem. Some individuals are afflicted by dry mouth and find swallowing anything hard. For other patients the nature of their illness can cause swallowing difficulties and some patients are simply too young to swallow pills and capsules in a solid form.
If you suffer from problems in swallowing or take care of somebody that does there’s an answer to the problems it can cause. A lot of people believe that the answer is simply to crush pills to make them better to take. There are a number of reasons why tablets should not be crushed to make them easier to take.
One reason is many pills are sugar coated to make them taste much more palatable. Crushing capsules with a sugar coating will take away the coating and make them taste rather unpleasant to put it mildly. Another reason is that some capsules and tablets are designed to have an enteric coating. The intention of this is to keep the medicine together while it is inside the stomach. This can be either to protect the medicine from the stomach or vice versa. Lastly if a tablet is made to have a modified release system crushing it will cause all of the medicine to be released at the same time as opposed to over a longer time period.
Fortunately there is a solution to swallowing problems and dysphagia. The use of 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 a replacement for a number of pills and capsules used to treat a number of illnesses.
Rosemont are specials manufacturers of both licensed and unlicensed medications and offer a variety of liquid medicines to the health industry.
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