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#shorts How to swallow pills and capsules if you struggle with doing so. These tips and tricks will help you swallow pills and drugs easier. What you can do to help swallow pills more easily • Until you know what's behind your swallowing issues, here are a few things you can do to make swallowing medicine a little easier: • How to swallow a pill • A study by researchers from the University of Heidelberg in Germany may help people with pill swallowing difficulties. They suggest two techniques that can help people improve their ability to get the medicine down. Their report was published in the Annals of Family Medicine. • Put a pill in applesauce or pudding. The texture can make it easier to swallow pills whole. • The pop-bottle method is designed for swallowing tablets: • Fill a plastic water or soda bottle with water. • Put the tablet on your tongue and close your lips tightly around the bottle opening. • Take a drink, keeping contact between the bottle and your lips and using a sucking motion to swallow the water and pill. Don't let air get into the bottle. • Researchers asked about 140 people with difficulty swallowing pills to test this method with their eyes closed, swallowing large and very large pills. The result: a 60% improvement in swallowing over the old method of just taking a sip of water from a cup and trying to swallow. • Study participants had even more success with a technique for swallowing capsules called the lean-forward method: • Lean-forward-method-to-swallow-pills • Lean-forward method to swallow pills. • Put a capsule on your tongue. • Take a sip of water but don't swallow. • Tilt your chin toward your chest. • Swallow the capsule and water while your head is bent. • This technique showed an improvement of 89% over the old method of taking a sip of water from a cup and trying to swallow. • Overcoming fear of swallowing pills • Swallowing isn’t as simple as it looks. Nerves help your mouth, throat, and esophagus work together to move food, liquids, and pills into your digestive tract. • Another option is to speak with a psychologist. They may have some in-depth mental exercises you can do to make swallowing pills possible. • 1. Drink water (lots of it!) • Probably the most well-known method for swallowing a pill is to take it with water. You can refine this method for optimum success by tweaking it a little. • Try taking a generous swig of water before placing the pill in your mouth. Visualize yourself successfully swallowing the pill before you try to swallow. • If you gag or feel like you can’t swallow, carefully remove the pill and dry it off with a paper towel so it doesn’t dissolve. Give yourself a few minutes before trying again. • 2. Use a pop bottle • The pop bottle method was designed by German researchers with the intention of helping people swallow dense tablets. • However, this method doesn’t work as well with capsules since they have air inside and weigh less than water. • To swallow pills the “pop bottle” way, you’ll need a full water bottle with a narrow opening. Start by placing the pill on your tongue, then bring the water bottle to your mouth and close your lips around the opening. • Use the pressure of the water bottle’s narrow opening to force water down your throat as you swallow. This technique improved the ease of swallowing pills for nearly 60 percent of people in one small study. • 3. Lean forward • This technique may also help you swallow pills. • Start with your chin up and your shoulders back as you place the pill in your mouth, then take a medium-sized sip of water. Quickly (but carefully) tilt your head forward as you swallow. • The idea is to move the pill back toward your throat as you tilt your head forward and give you something else to focus on as you swallow. • This method improved swallowing for more than 88 percent of study participants in a small study. • 4. Bury in a teaspoon of applesauce, pudding, or other soft food • One way to trick your brain into swallowing pills more easily is to bury it in a spoonful of something you’re used to swallowing. • A major caveat here is that not all pills should be taken with food. Some pills will lose effectiveness if mixed in with soft foods. • 5. Use a straw • You can try to swallow your pill by using a straw to wash it down. The reflex movement of sucking up liquid while you seal the straw off with your lips can distract you while you get your medications down.. • Find a specialized medication straw online. • 6. Coat with a gel • You may be able to swallow your pills more easily by coating them with a lubricant gel. • In one study, 54 percentTrusted Source of participants who used this kind of pill-swallowing aid found it much easier to get their pills down. • These lubricants improve the taste of your medication. They also limit the discomfort some people feel as it slides down the esophagus and into the stomach. • 8. Try a pill-swallowing cup
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