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Does anyone have any tips for swallowing pills? I have some pills from my doctor for a bronchidal infection, and they were huge, I had to cut them up into fourths, yet they still are tough to get down. Tips or tricks?
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take them with a flavored drink. and a big gulp of it. thats what helps me. good luck!
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Well this is going to sound totally weird, but what I use to do to practice swallowing pills was I would swallow M&M's. Now that sounds pretty weird, but if you think about it M&M's are pretty big and if you can swallow one of those you can swallow pretty much anything. Another thing you could do to help make it alittle easier to swallow pills is, before you put the pill in your mouth take a sip of water but don't swallow it just yet. Next pop the pill in your mouth with the water still there, then swallow and take a another sip of water. Its kinda as if your tricking your body into thinking its swallowing water and not a pill.
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I am the same as you!! Yet I have to cut them into like eighths. ne ways.. You could always put theminto food like apple sauce or something. It could help I never tried but yeah.. best bet is to ask for a chewable or liquid
Hope I helped
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put it in your mouth and drink water or something like that and tip you head backwards
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i need to warn you that some medicines should not be cut into pieces. please, make sure they can be or else they could end up harming you. to swallow them, just put a ton of water in your mouth and put the pill in and swallow. this works for me. if you are really having trouble, ask for a liquid or chewable instead. <3
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just dont think about the pill in your mouth and get a big glass of water and put the pill as far back as you can && just make sure you dont think about it cuz youll get scared or whatever i didnt learn to swallow pills till i was like 11 or 12
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Just get a big glass of juice and put the pill on the back of your tounge. Take a great big gulp of the juice and swallow without thinking of what you are doing. Just do it. The pill should just float down.
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Hmm... I used to not be able to take pills a couple yeaRs ago. I would tRy oveR and oveR, until it got to the point wheRe I just gave up, and would RatheR be ill than agRavate myself with my failuRes. I'm not shoRe how I got oveR it, I just did. I do nothing diffeRent fRom what I was tRying back then. I think simply not thinking about it, and just going foR it with a HUGE ASS gulp of wateR ought to woRk. Goodluck, my deaR! Hope I helped!
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what i do is take a BIG gulp of water w/ the pill and make it like float in my mouth so i cant feel it then swallow, so its like taking a drink of water instead of a pill
OH, and taking a drink of water w/o a pill b4 taking it helps!
hope i helped,
SAM
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As some people mentioned, cutting up the pill(s) and then putting them into a food such as yogurt, pudding, apple sauce, and anything similar to that will help you when you need to swallow your pill(s). Or you can try swallowing the pill(s) by drinking juice and then putting them into your mouth and swallowing then. You can then try drinking more juice so the pill(s) will go down. Did your doctor mention if you can crush these pills into a powder and put it into a liquid and swallow them down that way? If you can do that, then try it out because when I was younger, I got prescribed pills that were really big and I crushed them into powder and put it into water and swallowed/drank the water.
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Try crushing the pills up and mixing them with a spoonful of jam or something. That way it will be just like eating jam and the pills will work just as well. If you don't want to try that then take a large gulp of water and while the water is still in your mouth, put the pill in, swallow quickly and take a sip of water to help it go down. Sometimes you can taste the pills with that method, if you don't want to then try using juice instead. You can also try dissolving the pill into a drink like orange juice and then drinking it. It might also be an idea to just crush the pills into a lid or an empty yoghurt pot then pour it into your mouth.
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i put pills in peanut butter and just eat it fast, i don't use water because there is still the chance of being able to taste the pill. i use like juice or something. hope that helps
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Well, maybe cut them down a little bit more. If not, swallow with milk, that usually helps for me!
Hope I helped!
~oxkateKaylaxo
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practice with m&ms...and the best drink for forcing down pills is a carbonated drink with a straw. put the pill on your tongue then take a big sip, sucking on the straw along with the bubbles in the drink will help the pill slide down your throat with no trouble at all. <3
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crush them up into powder and mix with Tang or some other orange drink. you could also snort them, the medicine will be much more potent then, but it burns like hell. and it won't work if its pennicillin
-hitler
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Pudding..stick them in and then close ur eyes..and take a mouth full and just sallow!..I my mom used to do that to me..when I had to take pills, it would be so hard for me to take them...so she would put them in puttin n hid it and once I took the pill..she would give me the rest to eat by myself..I think it should be banned to make pills so huge..I hate when I get big pills, I hate the gaging and sallowing really fast..its all yucky!! Hope I helped.
-need anything else feel free to drop one in-
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4 tips
1 dedicate it to someone. (example:say "i will swallow these pills for Betty.Betty this is for you")
2 distract yourself while you swallow the pills. sing a song in your mind or something.
3 think "Come on ________, you can do this, this is only about 5 seconds of hell, you wont die, after this i will be free."
4 put the pill on the back of your tongue.
put a straw in front of the pills and the next end in a cup of water
quickly suck up the water through the straw
the pills will be gone!
NB: do this quickly, if you hold back, you will choke.
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have a cracker at hand, and always eat befor you take your pills..
0_o molly
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What I did when I first learned how to swollow pills is with those mini m&m's and then I tried bigger pills! I hope I helped! ♥Andie
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crush them up and put them in food like apple sauce or orange jucie
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Are you allowed to swollow it in food, if so try that.
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sometimes when there really big i make a smoothie and put the pill in there and it crushes it (in the blinder) and you cant even taste it ... workes everytime .. but make sure its into little pices and put it at the bottom or it mite not crush it =D
ashley
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Ok take a sip of water but leave the water in your mouth. pop the pill in and swallow both at the same time. Next time ask your doctor for liquid if they have it.
Hoog luck
Alex:)
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Put them in foods, like apple sauce or mashed potatoes.
-Brianna
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