WHEN YOU TAKE medication, you may not think much about swallowing tablets or capsules with a gulp of water. But, swallowing pills isn’t so easy for everyone. Between 10 percent and 40 percent of ...

Always use water with your pills to avoid unnecessary health complications. When you swallow a pill with water, it helps to ensure that the pill moves smoothly down your oesophagus and into your ...

Kids will put just about anything in their mouths, including potentially toxic single-dose laundry detergent gel packs — the small, soft and colorful capsules that tend to draw children’s interest.

Many people struggle with gagging when they try to take medicine. Here are tips from pharmacists on getting pills down easier: Practice with candy. Work on swallowing different sizes of candy, ...

‘A tough pill to swallow’ is more than just a metaphor. Four in ten adults struggle to swallow pills, which can prevent them from getting much-needed medication. Many patients have trouble swallowing ...

Ibuprofen for headaches, aspirin for heart health, antibiotics for infections, multivitamins you may not necessarily need — lots of people take pills from time to time. But are we actually taking them ...

I have always loathed swallowing pills. As a kid, I'd bury them under sofa cushions or hide them under carpets. I'd hide the pill under my tongue and spit it out later. My parents tried everything, ...

Every year, people around the world take an astonishing 3.8 trillion doses of medicine. Most of these medicines are swallowed rather than injected or inhaled, because the oral route is the easiest, ...

Dear Dr. Gott: My mother is 87 years old and has great difficulty swallowing pills. They get stuck in her throat, and she is so afraid of choking she would prefer not to take them at all, which is not ...

I have a thing about swallowing pills, especially big pills -- horse pills, my dad always called them. (They can make music come out of a chip the size of a Tic Tac, why not multi-vitamins, too?) So I ...