Swallowing Difficulties
Medicines

This website is for:

  • Patients or parents of children who can't swallow tablets or pills and

  • Health care professionals requiring guidance on how to administer medicines to patients with swallowing difficulties or using enteral feed tubes (PEG & PEJ.

Crushing a tablet or opening a capsule before giving it to a patient can significantly change the way it works. This website will help both patients and health care professionals to make informed decisions when helping someone with swallowing difficulties to take their medicine.

Information for patients or the parent of a child with swallowing difficulties >>

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