Doctor Explains Life Hack For Swallowing Medication!

[zbwzbvv]

I need to show this to my cousin, she can barely swallow a pill to save her life 🤣

[imhereforit]

Thanks for this. Certain pills always get stuck in my throat and burn. So now I'll do the water trick with it tilted back.

[TheArtisticLizard]

I just have a fear of swallowing tablets....

[folded_pizza]

My issue is that gag reflex kicks in and I can't swallow

[jonathankoekemoer]

Wow i am glad i found this. When I'm sick idk what im dying from more the illness or the pills haha. Everytime i tilt my head backwards i gulp all the water up but the pill remains

[charvivivi-vrdm]

This helped!! As a person who hates bitter tastes, I just had a tablet in my hand and swallowed it instantly my tilting my head back, thank you do much doc!🎉

[ChunmaiRoo]

Omg it worked!!!! Where have you guys been all my life?!?! My whole life I have struggled and get so much anxiety. Thank you much for this tip!!!

[jakubbalinski]

Me trying to swallow a pill.

*3 seconds later spending 10 min in toilet*

[Chronologist]

I have a lot of trouble swallowing in general and usually habe to drink a lot while eating to push food down. Over time I learned to actively relax my throat, even when it tries to close up and I can manage now.

[skitz]

When I'm at the mental hospital I'd tell the doctor that I have trouble taking pills so they would give me extra pudding

[texasflood]

I still can’t. I’m 55 and it’s driving me crazy that my brain won’t let me do this!!

[kaikira]

Thank you so so much, this is really helps me I have struggled to take pills my whole life and I just found out that I'm currently pregnant and I have to take some pills for a week this technique has really helped me out so much!!

[Quirkalicious_]

I’m 15 and take lamotrigine for my epilepsy
And I’m used to swallowing small pills
But when I’m sick and I have to swallow the bout pills I gag and all that
But thanx to u I was able to take them with no complications

[shadxwsss]

needed this for my antibiotics cause i always opened the capsules and poured them onto honey but i decided to actually try normally and it worked after a few goes, thank you

[Tobashadow]

As someone that struggles from time to time another method I had a doctor show me was to use a cup like she did with a straw. Put the pill on my tongue and then just take a good hard drink from the straw like your trying to get the last of the drink in the cup. You don't even notice the pill as it gets slam dunked down your throat.

[emmaflores]

I needed this when I was a kid 😭😭 I used to choke on my ADHD meds!! I'll have to remember this when I ask for my meds again.

[danablack]

This is brilliant! I'm going to use this to teach my autistic son to swallow pills!

[lisabeck]

I guess this is why I find it easier to swallow capsules, tablets, etc. with small sips of liquid rather than big gulps. But when I was younger, I thought the secret to swallowing such things was to throw my head back as vigorously as possible.

[horsecharmer]

I have always struggled with tablets. I recently found that if I take a sip of water( or whatever drink available) without swallowing, put the tablet in and then swallow. I found this easier to take meds.

[Milena-gjke]

I used to find it hard to swallow pills but then I had a very unlucky two-year period in middle school. In short: strep throat 4 times, then stomach problems because of the antibiotics, all while going to neurologists and everyone on the list trying to find a cause for my awful headaches (nothing found to this day, seems to just be from a mix of me not sleeping right and chemical sensitivity, especially in the period when the boys were discovering axe body spray). So I had to go through a lot of different pills (some of the tablets I had to take at some point were the size of about 2-2.5cm in length and pretty chunky) and just learned to cope. I also ended up with a permanent indent on my arm from all the blood tests