Re: Taking meds...responding to Patti

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They crush all my MIL's pills and vitamins in the nh before they put

it in applesauce. I know is has to taste bad, by the look on her face.

But, that's the only way she can get the meds at this point.

Patti

> >

> > My husband takes his pills but we sure have a time with them.

Some days

> > worse than others. He thinks (for some reason) that they are

> supposed to be

> > in the drink so he is always trying to spit them out once I get them

> in his

> > mouth. He does not open his mouth good so that I can get them in

> his mouth

> > and then once I get them in, he doesn't swallow the drink. He

can drink

> > fine but holds it all in his mouth and I keep telling him: " swallow,

> > swallow, swallow. " I tried the applesauce but he just swallows the

> > applesauce and keeps the pills. He doesn't have only 3 or 4 meds

> each time

> > but in the morning, all the vitamins he takes are the extra

problems. I

> > think the sinemet would just dissolve quickly if you can get it

in her

> > mouth.

> >

> > It is just another fun thing we caregivers have to deal with day

> after day.

> > Aren't we having fun yet? Leona

> >

> >

> >

> > Taking meds...

> >

> >

> > Does anyone have any good ways of getting their LO to SWALLOW pills?

> > Grandma has never

> > had a problem with this before but the 5 days or so have been a

> real trial

> > and it seems to be

> > getting worse. Even when I cut them up very small (not quite

> crushed) and

> > put them in ice

> > cream she eats the ice cream around them and spits the pills out

> or rolls

> > them around her

> > mouth sucking on them and complaining about how bad it tastes.

> When I tell

> > her to swallow

> > them she says " Quit yelling at me, I KNOW! " She says it doesn't

> hurt to

> > swallow and she

> > doesn't seem to have problems swallowing what little food and

> drink she's

> > getting in these

> > days, its just the pills. I'm worried that she's going to start

> refusing

> > them (she tried to just

> > now and I talked her into trying just one more time). Some I know

> its ok

> > to crush (my

> > understanding is that if it is scored so it can be cut than it is

> ok to

> > crush it) but some I'm not

> > sure. Can namenda or sinimet be crushed? Her EFFEXOR XR comes in

> gel caps,

> > is it ok to

> > open those up and just mix it with ice cream or pudding?

> > I guess I should call the pharmasist but I thought I'd ask if

> anyone here

> > knew first.

> > Emma

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