Humane way to take crushed pills?

[AreLin 16]

Omg im not in the pureed food stage yet but just might cave and buy unsweetened apple sauce. I am so miserable. They just started me on a cocktail of meds as they biopsied my stomach when I got sleeved. It came out I am highly susceptible to developing and ulcer and the medications all taste horrible. I have to drink pepto 4x a day and crush two yucky pills 4x a day for 10 days. They make me dry heave something horrible. But I'm 11 days out of surgery, and am just using applesauce. Thanks for the idea

[megmom757 113]

My surgeons head RN came to visit me in the hospital and told me to do it that way. Of course you can't eat a whole cup but a little to get the meds down. I would give your DR a call and see if you can do it that way. Good luck and it will get better.

[meyouus 415]

Now that I'm on the pureed/strained stage, I use yogurt, as some of you suggested. It is Sooo much better that way! Thanks!!!

[HappyValleyHappy 48]

Smaller pills I swallow. Larger ones I crush and mix with plain yogurt.

It seems to be working.

[TMG1980TMG 136]

I give my patients crushed mess in a little chocolate pudding-- I do applesauce for them too, but have been told chocolate pudding hides the taste better--

(RN for 5 years)

[dbfn 67]

Can you crush and put it in some yogurt? Anything to not have to taste the drug. I never had to crush any pills. Of course my thyroid med is a liquid pill like Vitamin e.

That was exactly how I took mine for the first little while: bashed the living you-know-what out of them with a large spoon (which was actually quite therapeutic at times), then mixed it with yoghurt to mask the nasty flavour. My surgeon said I had to crush them for the first week. In fact, I still take my heart pills with yoghurt because I'm one of those weird people who finds the tinier the pill, the more likely it is to get stuck in my throat. And damn, those things taste nasty if they get stuck! With the limited capacity of the pouch, I can't always down a big glass of Water to move a stuck pill any more, but they always go down first time with a teaspoon of yoghurt.

[aelovelady 243]

My doctor never required crushed pills, even for the one huge pill I had to take. His advice was to take them slowly, waiting several minutes between each pill.

[meyouus 415]

I take so many pills it ruins the yogurt, I can't swallow right when I use yogurt. I'm weird. Now, I've been crushing them, putting them into two 1 ounce cups with Tim Hortons Hot Decaf, strawberry flavored tea, stirring and swallowing. Then take some more sips of the tea. The heat in the tea seems to dissolve the pills better, no "crumbs". I just hate the crushing of all my pills, my fingers are going to get calloused by turning that darn crusher so hard. Even splitting the one pill is getting hard to do by hand. I hate the whole process.

[aelovelady 243]

My doctor said it was unnecessary to crush pills, just take with plenty of Water and wait several minutes between pills.