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Am I the only one who hates jokes where the entire setup is “These kids I chose to have sure are a pain in the ass!”
Sure are.
I feel like “chose to have” is a bit strong when “chose not to abort” might be more accurate…
My cat is the best in that regard: either he eats the pills straight or off my hand or I put it on the floor and put his favorite creamy treat on top
lucky you, my dog isn’t like that. i either have to trick him with cheese or shove it down his throat and hold his mouth closed until he swallows.
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.
Yeah! This is it. The amount of people who just put the pill in their mouth and THEN drink water surprises me. Every time I’ve done that with a specific type of pill, it would leave some extremely bitter powder on my tongue! Easily avoidable by putting water in first.
I misheard my mom and started putting them under my tongue as a kid then using the water to swish it down. Works relatively well
I feel like putting the pills in your mouth first works a bit better when you have a bunch of pills to take. I take four pills every morning (ADHD, antidepressant, allergy pill, and L-methylfolate because of dumb genes) and I’ve tried both ways. The pills-first approach is just faster and easier for me, and I don’t mind the taste. Hell, I weirdly like the taste of my ADHD meds 😅 I will absolutely do the water first thing when taking something disgusting though. I tend to close my mouth and tilt my head forward rather than back, however.
I don’t know why my client posted this comment 4 times… Sorry about that.
Does this work on human children, or just cats?
I don’t think it works on cats :(
You throw it in their mouths and rub under the lower mandible until it goes down. It’s not too hard, assuming your cat isn’t an asshole.
That’s a mighty big assumption
Im one of the lucky few where my cat just eats pills out of my hand like a treat. He is not smart enough to know the difference.
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
You’re trying to hard.
For me, it wasn’t about swallowing the pill, it was a psychological thing about not chewing. I’d just take a small bite of bread, banana, or other soft food, chew a few times, pop the pill in and then swallow the food with the pill.
Full blown Kermit freakout in that last panel!
… Do y’all really have that much of a problem popping pills?
As a kid? Yes. I have a very strong gag reflex. The doctor using a tongue depressor would make me retch. I had trouble swallowing meat if it was tough or fatty. I would have to chew it for a very long time before I could swallow it. Fatty bacon I usually just had to give up and spit out.
It took me until I was a teenager until I could swallow a pill. I practiced on swallowing blueberries.
Now I have no problems, I can swallow a handful of pills and I’m a vegetarian.
I’ve always had a very sensitive gag reflex, to the point it’s difficult to clean my tongue while brushing.
Never in my life had issues swallowing pills. Absolutely no idea how I got one without the other
Same. I gag brushing my tongue every time. I’ve actually vomited a bit a few times which totally ruins the point of brushing the teeth. No problem with pills.
It took me until my 20s before I could swallow pills without gagging and spitting out water.
Then one day something just clicked and since then, no problem.
I can do one, two or even eight at a time like it’s nothing.You deepthroated for the first time didn’t you
I can suck cock but have to push pills down with my fingers
I can take pills but not a toothbrush.
Same lol. Every morning my gf laughs at me cause I’m in there insert gagging sounds sounding like I’m in a cheap amateur porno lmao.
Gotta get the tongue clean though! Feel like that’s where all the breath stinks is! Lol
They make actual scrapers for that.
When I got married and had a kid, I discovered “trouble swalling pills” is indeed a phenomenon.
I have been taking pills since I was five thanks to my temperature-based allergy. I just salivate when I see a pill. It’s quite inconvenient when I am handling my child or spouse’s medicine.
I mean yeah, I also had an aversion to swallowing pills when I hadn’t done it before. But I got used to it pretty quickly, using this method specifically. I just assumed everybody did it like this
The only temperature-based allergy I know of is cold urticaria and I’m unaware of medication for it, but word love to know if that’s not the case.
Yup, and it’s just regular antihistamines. I took seldane for a while until they took that off the market, then it was on to reactine. It was a bit of a slap in the face when the reactine became non-prescription, and therefore somehow not medically necessary according to my insurance provider.
Yeah I’ve had daily meds since I was 6. I was confused when I first met people who couldn’t take pills
Some people do it voluntarily.
Why fly a kite when you can just pop a pill?
Every day I’m amazed by the most mundane shit that Lemmings somehow struggle with
This thread has me questioning my propensity for empathy. I never for a minute imagined, outside of folks with medical issues, that it was a problem. This has me interested. If I were a scientist and not just some guy, I’d study it.
As a kid, I had difficulty, as kids tend to. One day, as others have mentioned, it clicked, and sometimes I have several pills in there at once; e.g., Mucinex 12h, two Sudafed, two ibuprofen is a common combination on the rare occasion I’m sick.
As a kid, I recall practicing on Kraft Deluxe Mac n cheese, swallowing without chewing, and I think, from there, it just kind of developed. So load up on Kraft Deluxe, folks, cheese up that esophagus.
I’m more confused about how rolling a kid up in a blanket would improve the situation of them not being able to swallow a pill. I can understand how getting them to take something chewable or a liquid that tastes like shit would be difficult but swallowing a pill? You literally just put it in your mouth and swallow a drink of water, you can’t even tell it’s there really… I was ecstatic when I got old enough for them to stop giving me chewable medicine. I still can’t eat applesauce because of my grandma mixing some antibiotic I had to take with it when I was 7.
I certainly don’t. I can easily put five or ever more pills in my mouth at the same time and swallow them all with one sip of water. I’m not even sure how I do that. They just all kinda align and slide down.
Oh wow, I’m gonna try this next time I need to down an ibuprofen
Why did she turn into Kermit?
Because there’s s muppet deep down inside each of us controlling our every movement and word. Geez, it’s like they never taught you basic biology in middle school.
Former pharmacy tech here, 8 years compounding pharmacy.
Get a mortar and pestle, crush it up and put it in whatever.
If not then use yogurt or something gooey.
By the way if anyone’s curious yes you can crush up Viagra, put it in Vaseline, and use it as a cream.
Yes you can put it there, and yes it’s effective.
I’ve done it multiple times for people that would regularly go over that five hour limit, because skin absorption is slower and weaker than intestinal absorption.
Aren’t there slow-release pills that shouldn’t be crushed?
Only EC(Enteric Coated) pills and capsule interiors cause they protect the pill against stomach acid until it reaches the intestine.
If it’s got a shiny exterior like an Advil it’s Enteric coated. If it’s a capsule with EC granules you’re gonna have a hard time crushing it anyway.
You’re probably not going to have a problem with those though because Enteric coating is super sweet and capsules are usually neutral in flavor, so there’s not much reason to try and hide the bitterness. For everything else there’s no real functional difference between a smashed pill and a whole pill in your stomach.
I would suggest you [the reader] ask your doctor before actually doing this, just so you don’t accidentally overdose someone (especially kids, who are more sensitive to dosage)
(I am not a doctor)
There’s ER and other formulations you wouldn’t want to crush, it’s not just EC to avoid.
Yes. Most ER/XR/CD/EC shouldn’t be. There’s some others that shouldn’t. Good to ask a pharmacist.
As a kid the bitterness of the crushed pill made me gag, even when mixed in something sweet like jam. Maybe my folks just needed to dilute it more with like an entire bowl of ice cream or something but I remember throwing up more than once because of the disgusting taste.
This is because Mary Poppins lied to us. It isn’t a spoonful of sugar that makes the medicine go down, but something with a bit of salt in addition to that sugar. Salt masks bitterness.
meanwhile I chewed grapefruit and pomelo peels after eating the juice part, chewed whatever pills were given to me, chewed single coffee beans, other weird shit. I don’t have the addiction any more after hitting my head a few more times.
toothpase though… somehow all of it fucks me up to varying degrees. I have settled on two that give me heartburn even if im super careful not to swallow any. the rest make me throw up or feel really not good.
Are you… Ok?
Using yogurt, pudding, or apple sauce were always winners for me to get the kids to take pills.
Great for methylfenidaat…
when i was in icu for 10 weeks, i learned this trick:
put the whole load of pills in your mouth, no water needed. then swallow them.
i dont know how i do it, i dont know why i couldnt do it before, i dont know how to explain it.
but i definitly can swallow half a handfull of pills just like that.
i learned it because that whole routine with glass of water and one pill at a time just was a PITA, when you are in icu for a good reason.
Why would you do one pill at a time? Just put em all in and wash the pills down with a glass of water.
I can’t swallow pills without water. They get stuck in the back of my throat.
it was a trick learned out of nescessity ;-)
yeah, I think it worked because they gave me lots of fluids anyway, I never had a dry mouth or sore throat.
Yep. I learned I can swallow about 20 pills in one gulp of water. Sorry for all you folks out there that say you can’t swallow pills, it’s a psychological issue.
It is, but I ain’t gonna argue with my brain.
Yeah I had it when I was a kid. For whatever reason my brain just wouldn’t allow it to happen and my tongue would grab the pill before I could swallow it. It cause a lot of problems. I don’t know what happened and I can’t even remember when it happened but one day it was just gone and I’ve never had an issue swallowing pills since.
Why are people talking about cats? That’s not how you get a cat to take a pill.
All right but if you do that you lose a chance for some “sanctioned for the greater good” violence on the little kid. I hear there are parents who would pass on that but mine sure wouldn’t.
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.
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
O_O
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I am intensely displeased with this comment. I don’t know why this got to me so much more than the other degenerate shit I’ve seen around, but this gave me a pretty violent physical reaction. Maybe it’s because I’ve been taking time release capsule meds for 15ish years now? Whatever the cause, you should be proud because that was well written.
I’m speaking my truth. XR Adderall, crack em open and pour em on me tongue. The caviar of stimulants
And these goddamn pharma companies putting binders and shit in so you can’t medically boof em.
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.
Guess that just didn’t bother me, but yeah, which you do first didn’t make a difference in terms of swallowing. It’s all about tilting the chin down to open the throat.
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.
At least close your mouth first, unless you like spilling drink+pills everywhere.
Pretty sure tilting the head down is implied in my personal swallowing process.
Tilt head back, open mouth, drop in pill(s), IMMEDIATELY swallow
Definitely not implied. I thought your entire point was keeping the head tilted back.
Good for you. Only reason to tilt the head back is to not spill. Closing the mouth fixes that. This is “pill taking recommendations”, not “re-thinking swallowing-in-general 101”
They’re talking about a way to prevent aspiration with dysphagia by tilting the chin down to the chest.
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!
… and I already replied to them. Enjoy spilling drink and pills everywhere.
The only pill you need to swallow is the truth
Sure. Fuck sincerity, fuck honest advice. This guy didn’t specify exactly how one should swallow, so he’s a lying liar! You got me!
What exactly are you imagining?
They are trying to be funny by playing on the fact that the person they are replying to didn’t include closing their mouth in the list of steps.
thank you
People that are capable of realizing I didn’t narrate the entire process of swallowing. IDK, if you’re imagining I would even put into words specific movements of the tongue, lips, jaw, etc, you’re opinion of my instructional skills is way off.
damn, you beat me to it. can confirm, it works like a charm
I’m surprised by the amount of people in this thread having trouble taking pills. It’s not really something I’ve ever thought about or heard other people struggle with but hey there it is
It took me a long time to get over it. I’m still not the best at taking pills.
I suspect some people just naturally have a harder time than others with it.
I’m normally fine but something about the shape and texture of the standard ibuprofen tablet just sticks to my throat, or at least feels like it’s sticking to my throat.
