More and more people have swallowing problems with medicine when it’s given to them as tablets or pills. Dysphagia can be encountered in all age brackets though it is most frequent in the very young and the aged. Older people have more problems with the problem because of changes to the saliva glands when they age. Studies have demostrated that up to 1/3 of all care home residents suffer from Dysphagia which makes caring for their health and well being more difficult and time-consuming. The problems Dysphagia causes may be serious since it interferes with medicine management and also medication management if the affected individual has difficulties swallowing tablets. When tablets are taken orally they can sometimes cause a blockage and result in choking. There is also a risk that capsules may become lodged in the throat which may lead to the incorrect dispersal of the medication to the body and also possible damage to the oesophagus. The most frequent way of working with patients with Dysphagia is tablet crushing. However whilst tablet crushing might appear to be the most obvious answer it can make a medicine taken this way much less effective which can lead to complications for the patient. Many tablets have a sugar coating on them to make them taste more enjoyable and although crushing them won’t have any kind of effect on the efficiancy of the tablet it might make them taste very unpleasant. Many of the pills and tablets manufactured these days have an enteric coating that is designed to keep the tablet together inside the stomach. Pills with an enteric covering should never be crushed because the coating is there to either protect the stomach from the medication or protect the medicine from the effects of the stomach . Fortunately help is readily available for sufferers of Dysphagia and the people that take care of them. Today there’s a broad range of medicines that can be taken by mouth and have the same effects as tablets or pills. Oral liquid medicine is produced to treat an array of ailments and diseases like those having an effect on the cardio-vascular system and endocrine system and many more liquid medicines are being produced everyday. Liquid medicines are very easy to swallow and also are available in a number of different flavours.