Take Your Medicine

[lloydslights]

You are sick.  You want to feel better.  You go to the effort of visiting a doctor.  You purchase the medicine.  You go home.    You get the glass of water ready.  You read the label directions. You free the medication from its container.  You look at it.  You gulp.  The tablet is still in your hand.  You are reluctant to swallow.  You might choke.

Does the throat literally constrict?

Why is it, that a male who can gulp their food, find it difficult to swallow a teeny tiny tablet?  

DEB

[punch*drunk]

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@*mrgrizz* wrote:

i can't eat mash potato it makes me gag

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Yep, its not my favorite thing. I can eat a little but theres something about the consistency that makes me gag sometimes too.

[punch*drunk]

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@purple_haize wrote:

My hubby swallows tab/capsules without water

Me I use to have to break panadol up, take the power out of capsules and mix it with something................now, for some unknown reason I can swallow them whole, except for the vitimin tablet the dr. told me to buy, I have to break that in halves to swallow it.

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Some vitamin tablets stink, the smell is enough to make me gag even before swallowing them.

[purple_haize]

Most vitamin tablets have a smell to them..........although this one I take is not too bad. Just very big.

[serendipityricho]

Yep Lloyd--re tablets for animals.

--worming benji the wonder dog--dont feed him the day before.

Place an open can of Pal on a plate as it comes from the can.

Get a pencil and make 3 holes in the side-insert worm tablets

and block the holes-then whistle him up.

A 3 second gulp--then he spits out one tablet -the other 2 

dribble out the corners of his mouth--unreal-but it used to happen...............Richo. 

[lloydslights]

Some of those odours.  Yewwww.

My daughter after an opthalmologist appointment, said that eye drops tasted and smelt awful. .... .they drained into the sinus cavity?

DEB

[colic2bullsgirlore]

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@lloydslights wrote:

You are sick.  You want to feel better.  You go to the effort of visiting a doctor.  You purchase the medicine.  You go home.    You get the glass of water ready.  You read the label directions. You free the medication from its container.  You look at it.  You gulp.  The tablet is still in your hand.  You are reluctant to swallow.  You might choke.

Does the throat literally constrict?

Why is it, that a male who can gulp their food, find it difficult to swallow a teeny tiny tablet?  

DEB

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As you snap on a set of rubber gloves tell him that you just read it can be taken as a suppository.... I find that statement

generally frees up any oral restriction......

Hint: If he calls your bluff make sure he has a tablet in his mouth as you shove a smartie up where the sun don't shine...

he will probably end up swallowing it anyway

[cq_tech]

Why would you want to waste a perfectly good smartie?

[2011.narelle]

My niece used to have a fear of taking tablets.She thought that she would choke on them so it became a bit of a psychological block for her.The Dr pointed out to her that she swallowed lumps of food much bigger than a pill or tablet & didn't choke.She had never thought of it that way & it made sense to her.

I don't think she had a problem with it after that.Don't remember,it was ages ago.

I know it sounds simple but maybe telling him that might help him too.

[bluecat*dancing]

Its psychological. His brain is telling his throat not to swallow. I take numerous pills each day and every so often, the same thing happens to me. Perhaps the OH could think of something else whilst taking the tablet. Distraction/relaxation helps. Is there a liquid form that the doctor could prescribe instead?

[b3llag1na]

My DIL used to have terrible trouble with taking pills - of she was given tablets they had to be crushed, capsules opened and mixed with something, and she preferred getting liquid form of antbiotics if she needed them. Even the Pill caused a huge performance - and I'd say they are about the smallest tablet you can get!

Then one day she saw me take my supplements - 3 fish oil caps, 2 glucosmine ones, a rosehip one , plus a couple of other largish capsules - all at once.

She was horrified! I pointed out that you can easily swallow something of the size between a large marble and a golfball if it isn't rock hard ( the size of an average mouthfull of food)

She can now take small tablets OK, but is working on capsules!