How to Take Medicine

The recommendation on the bottle, blister or instruction leaflet could be like:” take two capsules with a glass of water”. It is so easy to understand and to do, at least for the most of us. Not so for my son. Yes, he understands he has to swallow the capsules and drink the amount of water which fits into a normal sized glass or cup with the capsules.
The difference is between theory and practice. Between understanding and doing.

You don’t understand what can be done wrong? It is just as easy as we explained it. Yes, for you, but not for him. Imagine this. A teenager, six foot 4, 210 pounds stays in front of you looking onto the small capsules in his large hands and claims immediately “I can not do this!” What a motivation. So you cheer him up. Telling him: “take the capsules, put them far back into your mouth, drink a sip of water and just swallow everything like eating a meal”. Sure you have to repeat this multiple times before the hand with the capsules moves slowly to the mouth. The capsules disappear herein and the water should do the rest. No, he drinks the water and however he does it the capsules are still in the back of his mouth. You cheer him up again for drinking more water. Same effect the glass is empty and the capsules are not moved. You get tougher you don’t leave him or let him go. With some tender forces more water is used for more trials. And finally nobody knows what was happen the capsules gave up and slide down his throat without any harm. Expect the same show tomorrow.

We tried different. We opened the capsules very careful with a pair a tiny scissors. Collected the content and poured it over his tongue, he than drank the water. Wrong decision, the fine powder stuck onto the tongue and did not release even by drinking lots of water. The result was a bad taste in his mouth and medicine at locations he doesn’t want them.
The other time we milled the powder even finer and mixed it with the water in the cup. He did not drink it. It did not hit his taste.
So why not mixing it into a sandwich to cover up? Unfortunately, he did not eat it immediately. The sandwich was laying there for some minutes and the medicine chemically reacted with the food. The food turned brown and did not look very tasty at all. So it ended up as another unsatisfactory trail, hooked off of our list.

Lucky for us we found the same medicine in medium sized gelatin capsules. Now, he can do it. Still creating minor problems and issues, but at all he does a decent job swallowing the capsules. It is now more fun than pain to watch him taking his medicine.

I do not know what the big difference is. Are gelatin capsules less sticky, more slippery in the mouth? Can’t hide as perfect as other capsules? May be I never find out, but my son is doing fine now. Good for him.

R. Kind
Lymburg Enterprises, LLC
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