Guest guest Posted January 8, 2008 Report Share Posted January 8, 2008 Hi Emma, My husband is in a nh and home on weekends. He hates taking pills, but they crush all of his pills at the nh, including Sinemet and Seroquel. Jim's neurologist told me you can not split Seroquel, but the pharmacy at the nh splits it and said it can be crushed. He has one medication that is a gel cap and they open it and pour the ingredients in. My husband too can eat solid foods, but with liquids he has to have it nectar thick. He coughs and has chocked on liquids that are light like water. When Jim is home, I crush the medications too. I bought a medication crusher online, but you can use the backside of one spoon and crush the medication between the backside of the spoon and another spoon facing up or just put it in a plastic bag and bang it with a heavy spoon to crush it. You probably have your own way, but here are some other ideas. When the medication is crushed it mixes into ice cream, applesauce, pudding.... really well and they can't find the pieces to spit out. I have to give my husband a drink of juice to follow the medication, because he can taste the bitter taste in the applesauce and sometimes pudding. Also, I have heard where some pharmacies can make medications into a flavored syrup. I belielve it is in the links or files. I know has it in there somewhere. A flavored syrup might work too. Hope you find something that works.................Jan emsyfay wrote: 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 Welcome to LBDcaregivers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 8, 2008 Report Share Posted January 8, 2008 If you can get liquid medications as Courage suggested, this is the Flavored Syrup I was speaking of. http://www.flavorx.com/human/default.asp Janet Colello wrote: Hi Emma, My husband is in a nh and home on weekends. He hates taking pills, but they crush all of his pills at the nh, including Sinemet and Seroquel. Jim's neurologist told me you can not split Seroquel, but the pharmacy at the nh splits it and said it can be crushed. He has one medication that is a gel cap and they open it and pour the ingredients in. My husband too can eat solid foods, but with liquids he has to have it nectar thick. He coughs and has chocked on liquids that are light like water. When Jim is home, I crush the medications too. I bought a medication crusher online, but you can use the backside of one spoon and crush the medication between the backside of the spoon and another spoon facing up or just put it in a plastic bag and bang it with a heavy spoon to crush it. You probably have your own way, but here are some other ideas. When the medication is crushed it mixes into ice cream, applesauce, pudding.... really well and they can't find the pieces to spit out. I have to give my husband a drink of juice to follow the medication, because he can taste the bitter taste in the applesauce and sometimes pudding. Also, I have heard where some pharmacies can make medications into a flavored syrup. I belielve it is in the links or files. I know has it in there somewhere. A flavored syrup might work too. Hope you find something that works.................Jan emsyfay wrote: 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 Welcome to LBDcaregivers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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