Many patients receiving treatment have difficulties swallowing drugs. Dysphagia is most common in the old and the young. When we get older the functions of the saliva glands change which can make it harder to take capsules and tablets. Up to 1/3 of people in care homes are afflicted by Dysphagia which makes taking care of their health and wellbeing a much more challenging job. The problems Dysphagia brings about may be severe as it interferes with medicine management and also medication management if the patient has difficulties swallowing tablets. There is also a risk that tablets and pills consumed orally could cause a choking danger. Additionally there is a possibility that pills and tablets may become lodged in the throat which can cause damage of the throat and the incorrect dispersal of the drug. The most frequent technique of working with patients with Dysphagia has been tablet crushing. However even though tablet crushing might appear to be the obvious answer it may make a medicine taken this way much less effective which can lead to problems for the patient. A lot of pills have a sugar coating on them to make them taste more pleasant and although crushing them won’t have any impact on the efficiancy of the capsule it could make them taste very unpleasant. Many of the pills and tablets produced these days come with an enteric coating that is designed to keep the tablet together inside the stomach. Tablets with an enteric layer must not be crushed because the coating is there either to guard the stomach from the medication or guard the medicine from the effects of the stomach . Fortunately there’s a simple answer for sufferers of Dysphagia and the people who look after them. There is today a larger range than ever before of liquid medicines which can be taken orally and have precisely the same effect as pills or capsules. Oral liquid medicine may be used to deal with the effects of a variety of health problems and conditions and the array of diseases it can be used to treat is increasing all the time. Liquid medicines are extremely easy to swallow and also are available in several different flavours.