Liquid Medicine for Dysphagia Sufferers
Dysphagia ( swallowing difficulties) is a problem for lots of patients plus the people who care for them. There are many causes and explanations for dysphagia. Dry mouth is a very common explanation and one that can make taking anything difficult. The character of different illnesses can also cause swallowing problems and some sufferers are too young to swallow anything in a solid form.
If you suffer from trouble in swallowing or care for someone who does there is a solution to the troubles it can cause. Lots of people believe that the answer is simply to crush pills to make them easier to take. There are many reasons why tablet crushing isn’t the answer to dysphagia.
One reason is that some pills have got a sugar coating that helps to make them taste better. Crushing them removes this coating and can make them taste rather unpleasant. Other tablets have an enteric coating which is designed to keep the medicine together while it is in the stomach. This can be either to defend the medicine from the stomach or the other way around. Finally other tablets have a modified release process. This is to release the medicine over a longer time period and reduce the total amount of medicine that must be taken. Crushing capsules will release all of the medicine at the same time.
Fortunately there is a solution to the issue of dysphagia and the swallowing difficulty it can cause. The employment of liquid drugs, liquid formulation and liquid medicine is shown to improve medication management significantly. Liquid formulations are easy to swallow and come in a number of tasty flavours. They are available as a replacement for a variety of pills and capsules used to treat a number of illnesses.
Rosemont are specials manufacturers of both licensed and unlicensed medicines and offer a range of liquid medications to the health sector.