Child medicine

Full blown Kermit freakout in that last panel!

I used to take my cat to an old country horse vet. On one visit she had to get a pill of some sort and I told the vet that my cat hated pills and it wouldn’t be possible to get one down her throat. He said “son, I’ve been a vet for over 50 years and I’ve never had a cat that I couldn’t pill.” He couldn’t get the pill down her throat and had to give her a shot instead. I’ve never been so proud. RIP Martha, miss you girl.

Sometimes vets never listen, even though you told them exactly how your pet will behave.

… Do y’all really have that much of a problem popping 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 take pills but not a toothbrush.

I can suck cock but have to push pills down with my fingers

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

I couldn’t swallow pills until after my SECOND child. Just stuck to liquids when available.

Yeah I’ve had daily meds since I was 6. I was confused when I first met people who couldn’t take pills

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.

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.

That’s crazy. I can swallow tons of pills in one go but the idea of swallowing a blueberry whole sounds tough.

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.

Every day I’m amazed by the most mundane shit that Lemmings somehow struggle with

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.

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.

Some people do it voluntarily.

Why fly a kite when you can just pop a pill?

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.

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

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.

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.

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. I’m not sure I can actually swallow anything with my chin up.

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.

They’re talking about a way to prevent aspiration with dysphagia by tilting the chin down to the chest.

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

And these goddamn pharma companies putting binders and shit in so you can’t medically boof em.

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

What exactly are you imagining?

This…works less well with kids.

damn, you beat me to it. can confirm, it works like a charm

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.

Put pill in mouth, swallow pill. People hate this one weird trick!

I don’t like to do it, but sometimes I gotta take a pill and have no beverage.

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.

Lol. I hear ya, but I have taken like 6 pills at once using the water first method. That’s fair, to each their own!

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