Many patients receiving treatment have difficulties swallowing medicine. Dysphagia is a problem which has an effect on all ages although it is much more common in the very young and the very old. Up to 1/3 of residents in care homes experience Dysphagia which makes looking after their health and wellbeing a much more complicated job. Dysphagia consequences can be very serious as it can obviously interfere with medicine management and medication management proscribed by medical professionals when the affected person is not willing or unable to take medicine in capsule form. Whenever pills are taken by mouth they can sometimes cause a blockage and result in choking. There is also a risk that tablets can become lodged in the throat which may lead to the incorrect dispersal of the drug to the body as well as possible injury to the oesophagus. difficulty in swalloging The most common technique of dealing with patients with Dysphagia is tablet crushing. However while tablet crushing may seem like the obvious answer it could make a medicine taken this way much less effective which can result in problems for the patient. Some pills are sugar covered to make them taste better and while crushing them won’t alter the way the tablet works it will make them taste very unpleasant. Many of the pills and tablets manufactured these days have an enteric layer that’s intended to keep the tablet together in the stomach. Pills with an enteric layer must not be crushed because the coating is there to either guard the stomach from the medication or guard the medication from the effects of the stomach . Fortunately there’s a solution for sufferers of Dysphagia and the people who look after them. These days there is a broad range of medicines which can be taken by mouth and have the same effects as tablets or pills. There are many of drugs that oral liquid medicine can be used to replace and the quantity is growing all the time. Liquid medicines are easy to swallow for those with Dysphagia and come in a variety of pleasant flavours.