Dysphagia or difficulties swallowing is an issue that has an effect on huge numbers of people both young and old. The condition can occur for a number of reasons and strikes people of every age group. Certain cases are caused by the youth of the individual and the fact that they don’t want to swallow something solid. Dry mouth is a common cause of dyspahgia and some people find the thought of swallowing a pill enough to create problems.

Whatever the reason behind difficulties swallowing there’s a solution to the problem. One solution that often comes to people’s minds would be to crush tablets or pills to make them easier to swallow. Although pill crushing might seem like a good idea there are several reasons why it isn’t.

A primary reason is that some tablets use a sugar coating which helps to make them taste better. Crushing capsules with a sugar coating will take away the coating and make them taste rather unpleasant to say the least. Another reason is that some capsules and tablets are designed to have an enteric coating. The purpose of this is to hold the medicine together while it is inside the stomach. This can be either to protect the medication from the stomach or the other way around. Lastly if a tablet is made to have a modified release system crushing it will cause all of the medication to be released at the same time instead of over a longer period of time.

Fortunately there’s a solution to swallowing difficulties and dysphagia. The use of liquid drugs, liquid formulation and liquid medicine has been shown to improve medicine management significantly. Liquid formulations are simple to swallow and come in a number of tasty flavours. They are available as an alternative for a variety of pills and tablets used to treat a number of illnesses.

Rosemont are specials manufacturers of both licensed and unlicensed medicines and offer an array of liquid medicines to the health industry.