GMS Pill Taker's Cup for Easy Swallowing of Medication and Vitamins (Great for Use of All Ages)

Product Information

Some patients find it helpful to work up to swallowing pills by practicing with pill-sized pieces of soft bread or candy.

Pill dysphagia” or trouble swallowing pills is very common. People may have difficulty swallowing pills – but little to no trouble swallowing solid foods or liquids. Below are some helpful strategies to improve your ability to swallow pills. Researched techniques that may improve your pill swallowing: Pop-bottle method for swallowing tablets: In the Harris Interactive study, 13% of the 679 adults polled said that taking a deep breath before taking a pill helped minimize their gag reflex. A temporary condition that makes it hard to swallow, such as taking antibiotics or going through chemotherapy However, this method doesn’t work as well with capsules since they have air inside and weigh less than water.My 10 year old grandson has been taking supplements for 4 years and we have been crushing them twice a day. He can now swallow his tablets with this wonderful cup. Wish I had known about it all along.”

You can model this method by doing it yourself once or twice in front of your child before you ask them to attempt it. Anxiety: If a person is afraid of taking pills or of choking, they may find swallowing tablets very difficult. Anxiety can reduce saliva production and cause muscle tension, making it harder to swallow a pill. It may also activate a person’s gag reflex, pushing the pill to the front of their mouth. Personal locators are portable products designed to be carried by you when you go out. They enable authorised individuals, such as relatives or carers, to find out your location by logging onto the internet from a computer or smartphone. Most work via GPS (a satellite based global positioning system) and will allow individuals you have authorised to find your location (if you are carrying the device) to approximately 10 metres. They may not be able to find you if you are indoors unless they also contain GSM mobile phone technology.

That the devices may make daily activities more complicated or increase an individual's anxieties that they may unintentionally activate the alarm or damage the equipment. One study of people who have trouble swallowing medication shows two ways to make the process easier: Forough AS, et al. (2018). A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down? A review of strategies for making pills easier to swallow. DOI: Here are 7 ways pharmacists can help patients overcome their pill-swallowing fears and increase medication adherence. You can use automatic, pre-recorded prompts to either provide reassurance that it is not necessary to get up, to warn against entering a particular area, or against leaving the home. Prompting devices (see above) are available that can be triggered by movement in front of them. You could, for example, mount one above a chair or next to a doorway.

The pop-bottle method. This method is designed for swallowing tablets. It suggests that you fill a soda bottle with water. Place the tablet on your tongue and bring the bottle opening to your lips. Close your lips tightly around the opening of the bottle and take a drink.‌ Until you know what's behind your swallowing issues, here are a few things you can do to make swallowing medicine a little easier: 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 Swallowing straws: These devices make it easier to swallow a pill with water or another liquid. A person simply places the pill in the straw, then drinks the liquid through it. Leaking gas is dangerous. Ultimately, leaking gas can build up to dangerous levels which can result in explosions. Many newer cookers will automatically cut the gas off if the flames are not ignited, but older models may not have this safety feature. One option to manage the danger of un-ignited gas is to fit a natural gas alarm (not to be confused with carbon monoxide alarms) that will sound when the sensor detects gas. Some only sound an alarm, so someone must recognise what the alarm is for and act on it. Others actually turn off the gas supply.If your keysafe is provided by your local council, they will often arrange for its fitting. If you buy your own and you do not know someone who could fit it for you, you may find that your local AgeUK have a handyman service which can help for a small fee. However, don't rush to try these pill-swallowing methods at home without having a thorough swallowing assessment done first. Research does not show how your perception of swallowing pills may change, nor has it established what happens to you psychologically. Other Tips That May Work Work upward to a food that is the size of a pill they might need to take in the future, such as a small hard candy. If the child panics or gags, slow down and return to an earlier step in the process.

Prompting devices are available that play a short pre-recorded message when they sense movement. For example, you could place one near your front door, so that when you approached the door it would automatically remind you: 'Put your safety chain on before you open your door to a caller' or 'Don't forget to take your keys when you go out'. Thus these devices can provide a useful prompt if you are experiencing difficulty with your memory. However, the maximum message length is quite short; 10-20 seconds on most models.There are no uniform 'answers', 'rights' or 'wrongs'. However, it may help to consider the following issues. You can use these points to shape your discussion with the providing company or at an equipment demonstration centre.