Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Two Ways to Swallow Medicine


If you have difficulty getting capsules down but do well with tablets, or vice versa, it may be because you're using the same swallowing technique for both.
  • For a tablet, place it in the mouth with a small amount of water, tilt the head backward, and you can swallow readily. Follow with more water.
  • But that method doesn't work well for a capsule which, being lighter than water, will float frontward and be difficult to swallow. Instead, tilt the head or upper part of the body forward; then the capsule will float backward to be swallowed easily.

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