How to Swallow Big Pills

Most seniors take a lot of pills — prescriptions and nutritional supplements — and some of them are very large. Swallowing them can sometimes be a problem. If you do a search on the Internet, people offer all sorts of suggestions from putting it on the far back of your tongue to smashing the pills and taking them with applesauce. Many people put a pill in the back of their mouth, take a big gulp of water or other liquid, and tilt their head backwards to get the pill to go down their throat. I remember my mom doing that.

Fortunately, I don’t have a problem with taking large pills as long as I have enough liquid to accomplish the task. However, I recently came across an interesting suggestion. I’ve tried the method below and it works.

Take a few deep breaths to relax (especially the throat muscles), if you’re tense. Place the pill on your tongue. Take a mouthful of water and tuck your chin slightly down toward your chest. The pill will rise to the top of the water and send it to the back of the tongue and easily go down.

Amazingly, you can even take more than one big pill at a time using this method. Give it a try.

So now, you should not hesitate to take nutritional supplements. Need more energy? When traveling, I take pre-packaged pills called VitaOne which gives me a lot of energy. Feel like you’re coming down with a cold? I take one pack in the morning and one at night. Digestive enzymes are included so digestion is not a problem. For more information, click here.





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