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LPT: Fill your mouth with water, hold your head back and open mouth. drop the pill in. close mouth and swallow the water.
you wont even feel the pill.
by throwing the pill into the water already in your mouth instead of putting itin your mouth and then drinking the water, the pill wont have a chance to stick to your tongue or gums and release its bitter/nasty taste.
I never tried that and, judging from the comments here, it's probably not going to work if I need to swallow pills. I can remember having 3 incidents where that murderous piece of shit tried to go down the breathing hole
There's also the pill crusher + jam/jelly/applesauce method.
More here:
https://health.ucdavis.edu/children/patient-education/How-to-Help-a-Child-take-their-Medicine
Bad idea to crush pills. Depends on the pill, but you could end up in the ER.
Also a good point, for example the extended release type pills
Full blown Kermit freakout in that last panel!
Oh wow, I'm gonna try this next time I need to down an ibuprofen
No. Mouth full of drink as if going to gargle. Tilt head back, open mouth, drop in pill(s), IMMEDIATELY swallow, AND chase with more drink.
Dear god, its like some people want to taste our crimes against nature.
damn, you beat me to it. can confirm, it works like a charm
This...works less well with kids.
I've been taking 6+ pills a day for years and still can't get myself to swallow them. I just chew everything. Tasty painkillers and caffeine.
BTDT. Time-release is too useful though.
My only time-release capsule is filled with little beads, I just pop it open and eat the beads like pop rocks
Someone already said it, but tilting your chin down opens your throat, while tilting your head back will constrict
Tucking your chin down while swallowing pills is best
Also many pills (especially capsules, where the coating and filling are separate vs tablets that are compressed as one) float, so counterintuitively, tilting your head forward actually brings the capsule up to the back of your throat!
Tilting your head down can actually help with swallowing by a lot.
Insert pill. Put liquid in mouth. Tilt chin down. Swallow.
Source: have dysphagia, can only swallow pills and other hard substances by tilting head down
some pills have nasty taste if they touch your gums or mouth. fill in water first, then pill, then swallow.
It varies a lot from person to person. The only way I was able to learn to swallow pills at first was to deliberately swallow air, like you do if you want to make yourself burp. Head forward? Head back? Both interfered.
can't even get my adult partner to take pills normally. It's soo ridiculous the hoops a person would go through to avoid a slight bitter taste.
I'm a 34 y/o man and I need tricks to swallow pills. It has nothing to do with taste at all, it's about capability. I actually have a condition that makes it difficult to swallow.
It's literally just taste for my partner.
It’s soo ridiculous the hoops a person would go through to avoid a slight bitter taste.
I figured out a fix for the avoidance of horrible tasting medicine:
The simplest and easiest way to use it is with an ice cube or two. Get the pill/liquid medicine you have to get down your throat ready, your ice cubes, a cup of water and stand in front of a sink. Put the ice in your mouth and let it sit on your tongue for 15 to 60 seconds. Yes, its going to be cold and slightly uncomfortable. The longer you can stand it the better your result. After this time has passed with the ice in your mouth your tongue will be numb. Spit out the ice in the sink, you'll have 5-15 seconds where you can't taste a goddamn thing which is plenty of time. At this point you could put the most disgusting flavored thing (sour, bitter, etc) and you won't be able to taste it. Quickly get the medicine in your mouth and chug that full glass of water. Taste will start to return within about 3 or 5 seconds of chugging water, so make sure you drink enough to clear your mouth of whatever bad flavor you're trying to avoid.
This whole process adds perhaps 2 minutes tops to taking medicine. For those that have difficulty this is a tiny fraction of time usually spent avoiding taking it, or the recovery process for taking it normally.
If you need more incentive (especially for kids) instead of using ice cubes and spitting that out. You can use ice cream or milk shakes and just swallow those. Same rules apply: put the ice cream in your mouth and let it sit on your tongue as long as its frozen. Its a little more involved than ice cubes because you might have to have two or three spoonfuls to get your tongue numb.
An Interesting strategy. I will see if your idea works better. Cause putting it In pudding does not work.
My partner opens mouth wide almost dislocating jaw and carefully puts pill at back of mouth and then immediately drinks something favored to wash off taste. Its like the conehead dentist scene wide. I'm scared choking is going to happen eventually.
For me it’s the size. Can not really trick my body to just swallow. „But that’s huge! We have to chomp on it to break it down! Trying to kill yourself by choking?“
Drop your neck to your chest, it opens up your throat and makes putting things down your throat much easier
For normal pills I don't even need water for pills. I just swallow. My partner always makes me drink it afterward cause you are supposed to.
But those monster size ones! I'm like wtf why not make it 2 smaller one jerks!
Depends on the type of pill. Something easily desolvable like melatonin will dissolve in my throat of I don't take it with water.
Now that's a bitter taste that comes back up
If they're the hard pills, you can just cut them in half or even quarters if they're big enough.
Should I schedule my press conference?
This is not always true. Some tablets are extended release and if you break them apart the timing is thrown off. You get a higher dose initially, and the dose doesn't last the intended period.
A family friend learned this the hard way when they were breaking a seizure preventive tablet in half to make it easier to swallow; they'd often have a recurrent seizure about an hour or two before their next dose time.
Maybe I'm making a bad assumption that it was made that big for a reason. It's probably money...
Wait what? That works??
If they'll hold the pill in their mouth... Mine will spit if it is even a tiny bit sour or bitter.
Serious question - since when do pills have taste?
I'm with you. They exist, but I definitely haven't had one in a lonnng time.
I mean, if you tried to chew them thatd be a different story. Don't do that.
