Re: Too many pills to swallow! suggestions?

[Guest guest]

Powder form in smoothies or other foods, or start eating much healthier foods.

'Green' smoothies, more vegies at every meal and snack. There are powdered

forms, or as you mentioned, crushing a tab or breaking a capsule. I've got our

son eating seaweed snacks.

Our food sources aren't what they used to be.

You could tell him the alternative is IV or syringe...or another alternative is

that he'll miss out on better health, emotional state, physical state to do

sports/play, etc. Transdermal form too; creams or lotion on the skin. Not sure

about effectiveness though.

[Guest guest]

I've been doing this for years, and would always fall off my ruitine because of

how cumbersome it is to give supplements 4 times a day. And then I saw a video

clip one mother did which i wish i kept... what she did works best for me.

I crush all the chewables which also have taste maskers, open all the capsules

into a paper dixie cup. All of them for an entire day. Then I add the

liquid... oj, from the juicer, anything really. Then I take medicine syringes

(ordered them on line). I mix all the supps up really well and then suck it up

into the syringes. Sometimes I have more syringes, just depends on how much

liquid I add. But overall, my goal is to give him his supps 4 x's a day and

they are ready to go.. all the supplements equally mixed. I do them one day at

a time, keeping them in the fridge... takes a nano second to get it down. And,

has been the easiest way for me to stay on schedule.

hope that helps

>

> Hi again,

> my son swallows pills very well but he's starting to complain now that there's

too many (and there is). He will not do liquids.

> I've thought about crushing and combining the ones I can into a capsule.

> any suggestions?

> thank you,

>

>

[Guest guest]

Sounds ingenuitive, and what we have to do as parents no less, that

professionals and scientists, etc., understand how much we have to do to raise a

family with special-needs and keep it all together, us caregivers in that

respect.. .

Speaking of ingenuity, with respect to all the things we're doing, especially

with supplements with regards to us here (this board, and boards to do with the

bio-medical) and doing the primary research of finding what's best for our son,

(and what isn't so helpful) and also holding on to all that I've discovered is

more or less a sure thing, I'm now doing that by giving our son something I'm

experimenting with in the AM, along with the standard water-soluble things that

need to be spread out through the day, like Vit C, and a multi, along with what

I'm experimenting with for optimum efficacy, our son tending to react fairly

quickly from our experiences, to isolate what works and what doesn't in that

respect (in the AM, when he's more sensitive to new stimuli, and strong enough

to handle it) and giving him the rest of his stuff in the PM, for more or less

smooth sailing with what we have established the rest of the day.. .

Things can be forever challenged that way without putting us out of sorts, I

figure. It may not work for everything (like chelating itself) but is a good

standby where you don't have something more specific to work with and follow.

(Where you have a delayed-reaction kid that might not work so well at all? I'm

no so sure there are a lot of them around)

It somewhat simplifies the primary research in our case, that a lab could top

that with the resources we're working with.. . (if you know what I mean) and for

the sort of quality we *demand* of life.. . (We also want to get on with our

lives, that that doesn't make a family *work* especially, especially for the

individuals that constitute one of as much.. .

We don't use many chewables, so for those who don't, that might be something of

interest, to narrowing things down to what works to reduce the problem of

carrying a lot of things that might be questionable to what we're trying to

accomplish.

I find that question comes up a lot here, (if not everywhere) the burden of

carrying so many supplements (etc.) that might not be so helpful with respect to

how our situation constantly changes.

Glavic

> >

> > Hi again,

> > my son swallows pills very well but he's starting to complain now that

there's too many (and there is). He will not do liquids.

> > I've thought about crushing and combining the ones I can into a capsule.

> > any suggestions?

> > thank you,

> >

> >

>

[Guest guest]

> my son swallows pills very well but he's starting to complain now that there's

too many (and there is). He will not do liquids.

> I've thought about crushing and combining the ones I can into a capsule.

> any suggestions?

I bought size OOO at my local health food store [rather large capsules] and

combined the smaller capsules into the larger ones.

Dana