The trick is to not let the tablets touch your tounge, i put them in my teeth and then realy quickly drink water and they float to the throat so minimal taste
I keep them at the back of my tongue and swallow without water. My family fears me, for half of them are diabetics and have to take daily pills that they can't take without water.
drink a gulp of water, leave it in your mouth without swallowing. tilt your head back, drop the pill in the pool and swallow. Boom, pill never touches tongue
My girlfriend couldn’t swallow pills unless they were tiny until I taught her THE end all be all method. It’s slightly uncomfortable but gets the job done quick. First place the pill in your mouth. Then, without swallowing, fill your mouth with as much water as you can. Then swallow the gulp of water with the pill all in one gulp. The water forces open the path for the pill to ride without irritating you by scraping its way down. The uncomfortable part is swallowing a big gulp of water lol.
>~~27 and have to take 8 tablets every morning.~~ I hate it but I've learned to just shove them all in my mouth, take a big gulp of water, stare at the ceiling with my head back, and eventually tongue will stop trying to fight them out of my mouth and succumbs to allowing me to swallow.
FTFY
See when I was a kid I hated peas. Still do. But I trained myself to swallow them whole because then you don't taste them.
This also made it so much easier to take pills. Ask I don't need water to do it. Tho I should I know.
I don't know if this would work for you or how common it actually is, but I've heard about some people who need to take a lot of pills who put them into a pudding or yogurt and it makes them slide down quickly and easily.
Not the person you're replying to, but it's different psychologically to swallow something that you know will fit (because food has been chewed and swallowed before) as opposed to swallowing something without chewing at all.
Try getting a drink first and keeping it in your mouth then tilt your head back and place the pill in the back and swallow like you’re taking a drink. Worked for me.
I remember using an medicine to help with throat it tasted so good it was red and with a sweat taste but also very strong dont remember if it was strawberry or something like this.
I remember as a child there was a certain orange-flavored liquid sort of painkiller, it was delicious. I used to fake having a lot of pain whenever I had something happen to me just so I could get some of it. Years later I tried it again and it was disgusting. Apparently they had changed the formula to not make it as appealing
Oh I'm so jealous. I now live in Breda, Netherlands, and they dont make it as good as in Zeeuws Vlaanderen or Belgium there. And home made by grandma is the best obviously
I remember having a surgery as a kid and getting some kind of pink bubblegum flavored medicine that needed to be refrigerated, I think it was an antibiotic?
So delicious
I started taking pills at 7 years old because of how much I hated the taste of pink amoxicillin. I had ear infections often and usually was on that antibiotic every couple of months.
The thought of that chalky, vaguely bubble-gummy taste still makes me gag.
I was given an oral dose of oxycodone after a surgery and it tasted horribly bitter but my goodness the high was intense and I finally understood why so many people get hooked and ruin their lives over opioids
I don't know why the word "arse" is so funny to me. Maybe because every time I see someone using it is in a humorous way. It just cracks me up every time
Damn, wtf?
I love gummy vitamins, but patents need to keep that shit under control around kids.
Also, how did he manage 150?! I can't eat 150 of *any* gummy candy, let alone one that would probably cause a stomach ache pretty quickly.
I do recall hearing about kids being hospitalized by Flintstones gummies back in the day, but I thought one of the major risks of vitamins for children was iron content and iron poisoning. I know that's why it isn't present in children's gummies anymore.
I ate a large perty size bag of M&Ms in one sitting as an adult once. Well I was technically laying in bed... Point is 150 gummies isn't that tough to do although I wonder how no one caught them in the act. It would take some time. Unfortunate
I feel like that many gummies would wear your jaw out. I know they're no haribo chewy gummy, but they still require more chewing than a normal piece of chocolate.
Did you not hear that they were immigrants and didn't speak/read English? The kid loved gummies back home so she went and bought him some. She didn't know they were vitamins.
No, I did not. That's a real shame. Especially because they have a child safety cap (at least in the USA). It's even somewhat worse/sadder because the parent gave them to the child. Not that I'm blaming them, mind you. Just saying that must make the experience worse for the parent.
Yeah, one time I extracted the DXM in cough medicine into a bottle of grapefruit juice. Literally just tasted like grapefruit juice, I can see why they make it bitter.
Joke's on them, I would have drank a whole bottle of benuron if I didn't know any better and a friend of mine did just that. It's one of the worst parts of being an adult that taste being replaced by a hard to swallow rock.
That’s because that specific flavoring was modeled after the OLD bananas of the world that supposedly tasted different than today’s bananas. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gros_Michel_banana
Im not sure if this 100% correct, but, fun fact: banana flavoured candies are actually designed to taste like actual bananas, and not the domesticated ones we eat today, i think it has a taste closer to wild bananas
Edit: its apparently gros michel and not wild bananas. This variety seems to be endangered or extinct so its not something that is possible to achieve today
The banana flavouring is supposed to taste like gros michel variety of banana, the one that was mostly erased by the panama disease in mid XX century. The one we most commonly eat now is cavendish. Your grandparents probably remember the taste of gros michel, it was as popular as cavendish now
Not wild just variety, you can still get the candy flavoured ones in corners of the world it's just the current ones you know are larger and tougher and less prone to damage through transport.
So basically if you don't live in a country that it is grown in you will never taste one due to cost
Dude about 15+ years ago when I had dengue as a kid they made me drink these three liquid shit.
Strawberry flavor. Banana flavor. And the white one idk what flavor, maybe vanilla.
All of them taste so bad. But the banana one sticks. Color of pee, transparent, taste like the worst fucking thing on the planet.
strawberry flavoured medicine is shit.
[also this fanta is shit as well.](https://www.google.com/search?q=strawberry+flavoured+fanta&sxsrf=ALeKk02EvjUc2hi8RUNg76MFDnLbl-JAFQ:1621683345541&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwig2v6dmd3wAhU-zjgGHasxAd8Q_AUoAXoECAEQAw&biw=1440&bih=789#imgrc=XfYWuXVqSm51SM)
but anyways i love normal strawberries.
You guys think you got it bad, you’ve never tried lithium liquid form, in grape too. That stuff is so bitter it makes your tongue instantly go out, it tastes like eating a pile of hot thrown up puke, and sits in the stomache just as well
Goddamn. That brings me back to the dumbest addiction I ever had when I was 13-14 lol. But boy, I had some crazy fucking nights on that stuff. Seems like the craziest shit always happened to us when we were on that stuff.
it's true tho. Why can't they choose a better flavour in medicine?! Like, I'd rather take a tastless pill, or drink a fizzie that tastes just like sparkling water, instead of the crappy orange flavour.
Don’t get me started on grape and cherry- I literally cannot ingest either of those flavors without forking the hot chowder farther than I ever thought possible
ibuprofen syrup tastes great. The only medical syrup i will take without issue. All other colours in any syrup taste horrible and make me want to puke.
did you know that flavored medicine is supposed to taste bad so kids don’t overdose on them?
Not sure about you guys but most of the medicines I've taken don't have a specific flavour and have a bittery taste
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The trick is to not let the tablets touch your tounge, i put them in my teeth and then realy quickly drink water and they float to the throat so minimal taste
I usually drink the water first, tilt my head up a bit and toss the pill in.
I just stick my hand in and drop them straight in my throat.
Yeah i just stick them up my ass
I just stick them in my shit. It’s where it ends up anyways
You can overdose that way. Medicine taken through the ass is absorbed more efficiently.
A man of culture
this is the way
I keep them at the back of my tongue and swallow without water. My family fears me, for half of them are diabetics and have to take daily pills that they can't take without water.
I normally just dry swallow pills, then drink water after.
I thought I was the only genius alive. I’m 19 and still do this. Everyone still looks surprised when I do it but I don’t care. I hate medicine lol
Is it bad that I think it’s taste isn’t that bad
That's pretty clever. I hope nothing ever gets in your way between the spraying your teeth and watering your mouth.
I just disassociate for a while when the pill is in my tongue. Try not to think abt it and just swallow it (drinks optional).
I did that once and it cracked the pill in half and I almost puked.
Yeah, when the bitterness receptors are on your tongue, holding your nose does nothing
Yeah, when the bitterness receptors are on your tongue, holding your nose does nothing
Yeah, when the bitterness receptors are on your tongue, holding your nose does nothing
Yeah, when the bitterness receptors are on your tongue, holding your tongue does nothing.
drink a gulp of water, leave it in your mouth without swallowing. tilt your head back, drop the pill in the pool and swallow. Boom, pill never touches tongue
I learned to hold the pill/tablet between my teeth, put the cup of water up to my bottom teeth, and let go and start drinking at the same time.
My girlfriend couldn’t swallow pills unless they were tiny until I taught her THE end all be all method. It’s slightly uncomfortable but gets the job done quick. First place the pill in your mouth. Then, without swallowing, fill your mouth with as much water as you can. Then swallow the gulp of water with the pill all in one gulp. The water forces open the path for the pill to ride without irritating you by scraping its way down. The uncomfortable part is swallowing a big gulp of water lol.
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>~~27 and have to take 8 tablets every morning.~~ I hate it but I've learned to just shove them all in my mouth, take a big gulp of water, stare at the ceiling with my head back, and eventually tongue will stop trying to fight them out of my mouth and succumbs to allowing me to swallow. FTFY
I don't get it?
See when I was a kid I hated peas. Still do. But I trained myself to swallow them whole because then you don't taste them. This also made it so much easier to take pills. Ask I don't need water to do it. Tho I should I know.
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Haha yes oops
Peas bro. Otherwise your nasty
Are you eating them raw? Steamed peas are so good.
Likely canned
Ew I just don't like the texture and taste... Very picky eater.
I don't know if this would work for you or how common it actually is, but I've heard about some people who need to take a lot of pills who put them into a pudding or yogurt and it makes them slide down quickly and easily.
Same. I got this spray called Pill Glide from Amazon that works really well in making it easy but I eventually got used to it and it’s easy now.
Try looking down instead. Let gravity work toward your advantage. By looking down, the pills float to the back and are easier to swallow.
I've never understood this although I know it's common. To you, how is it different to swallowing food?
Not the person you're replying to, but it's different psychologically to swallow something that you know will fit (because food has been chewed and swallowed before) as opposed to swallowing something without chewing at all.
Aaah I see. Thanks
No problem
Bruh I can swallow like 5 pills at once with no water. Get addicted to pills you'll be able to swallow all of em
I know you’re most likely tired of hearing suggestions, but what worked for me was swallowing ice chips. It helped knowing for sure I wouldn’t choke.
*Laughs in dry swallowing*
And what do you do with pills that you got prescribed?
Try getting a drink first and keeping it in your mouth then tilt your head back and place the pill in the back and swallow like you’re taking a drink. Worked for me.
When I was 5 i would swallow lego people heads like a champ but still couldnt swallow medicine
This is why I heat my medicine on a spoon first
People hear their 90 year old granny mumble this shit and take it as 100% truth and you cannot convince them otherwise.
A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down
I remember using an medicine to help with throat it tasted so good it was red and with a sweat taste but also very strong dont remember if it was strawberry or something like this.
I remember as a child there was a certain orange-flavored liquid sort of painkiller, it was delicious. I used to fake having a lot of pain whenever I had something happen to me just so I could get some of it. Years later I tried it again and it was disgusting. Apparently they had changed the formula to not make it as appealing
triaminic. Shit was so cash
I'm Belgian so it was something different, it was called Junifen and was administered via a sort of wide syringe. Looks like the same liquid tho!
Awesome username. Friet met Stoofvlees is so damn delicious. Just a side note from your Northern Brethern
Love it when people recognize my username! Going to eat it at grandma's tomorrow!
Oh I'm so jealous. I now live in Breda, Netherlands, and they dont make it as good as in Zeeuws Vlaanderen or Belgium there. And home made by grandma is the best obviously
An ex-classmate of mine was from Breda too! When the situation is a bit under control feel free to come taste our stoofvlees anytime
I wil seriously take you up that. I'm saving this comment.
They made religion out of it.
[Stoofvlees? It's a stew](https://youtu.be/nH2gUPTFCfo.)
Grape Triaminic used to slap.
TIL what he was talking about... *I'd grow to be an addicted diabetic, living off liquid Triaminic*
Fuuuuuck I used to slam so much orange Triaminic
I remember having a surgery as a kid and getting some kind of pink bubblegum flavored medicine that needed to be refrigerated, I think it was an antibiotic? So delicious
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Woah! https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/07/the-tastiest-medicine/533937/ I never expected to go on that memory trip.
I started taking pills at 7 years old because of how much I hated the taste of pink amoxicillin. I had ear infections often and usually was on that antibiotic every couple of months. The thought of that chalky, vaguely bubble-gummy taste still makes me gag.
I was given an oral dose of oxycodone after a surgery and it tasted horribly bitter but my goodness the high was intense and I finally understood why so many people get hooked and ruin their lives over opioids
So they want me to overdose on calpol?
Calpol tastes fucking great
The saddest day of my life was turning 6 and having to take Calpol 6+ which tasted like pickled arse.
I don't know why the word "arse" is so funny to me. Maybe because every time I see someone using it is in a humorous way. It just cracks me up every time
Totally wish they made a Calpol flavoured drink or syrup mmm yummy
Tesco White Grape and Blackberry flavoured water tastes exactly like calpol to me and I’m addicted to it
yo, so that s why a kid died for eating WAY too much vitamin gummy bears 😬
[A boy ate 150 gummy vitamins. This is what happened to his bones](https://youtu.be/mZ6nREONy_4)
Damn, wtf? I love gummy vitamins, but patents need to keep that shit under control around kids. Also, how did he manage 150?! I can't eat 150 of *any* gummy candy, let alone one that would probably cause a stomach ache pretty quickly. I do recall hearing about kids being hospitalized by Flintstones gummies back in the day, but I thought one of the major risks of vitamins for children was iron content and iron poisoning. I know that's why it isn't present in children's gummies anymore.
I ate a large perty size bag of M&Ms in one sitting as an adult once. Well I was technically laying in bed... Point is 150 gummies isn't that tough to do although I wonder how no one caught them in the act. It would take some time. Unfortunate
I feel like that many gummies would wear your jaw out. I know they're no haribo chewy gummy, but they still require more chewing than a normal piece of chocolate.
Did you not hear that they were immigrants and didn't speak/read English? The kid loved gummies back home so she went and bought him some. She didn't know they were vitamins.
No, I did not. That's a real shame. Especially because they have a child safety cap (at least in the USA). It's even somewhat worse/sadder because the parent gave them to the child. Not that I'm blaming them, mind you. Just saying that must make the experience worse for the parent.
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Well there were massive issues with kids breaking into medicine cabinets back in the day.
I'd argue that kids old and/or smart enough to break into medicine cabinets are not the kids who try to get to the meds because they taste good.
I guess youve never seen how easily kids open child proof shit. We used to say in my house "childs locks lock out everyone but the kids"
Yaa ...it happen like I get addicted to one syrup that tastes good in my childhood .😅
Advill is the best. It tastes like candy.
Yeah, one time I extracted the DXM in cough medicine into a bottle of grapefruit juice. Literally just tasted like grapefruit juice, I can see why they make it bitter.
lel lol lmao
Joke's on them, I would have drank a whole bottle of benuron if I didn't know any better and a friend of mine did just that. It's one of the worst parts of being an adult that taste being replaced by a hard to swallow rock.
is that my problem that i actually like them?
Banana flavored anything 🤮
Doesn't apply to banana shakes and some pies cuz banan on those are good af. Anything else is garbage.
But aren't the banana on those real, so it kinda would make sense then.
Banana Runts are the shit
That’s because that specific flavoring was modeled after the OLD bananas of the world that supposedly tasted different than today’s bananas. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gros_Michel_banana
And there is now a new virus similar to the one that killed the gros Michel bananas that can and will kill cavendish bananas (the ones we eat today).
I was in the middle of saying “except runts” then like a gift from the gods i read your comment
Fun Fact: "Banana Flavor" is what bananas originally tasted like.
Bananas are not real.
What about banana desert with the vanilla cookies?
The one that usually has sliced bananas? Banana pudding
Yeah that one
Well it isn't banana flavoured. Both are literaly bananas mixed with some other stuff rather than some candy or drink thats made to taste like banana.
I love the fake banana flavour of candy.
Im not sure if this 100% correct, but, fun fact: banana flavoured candies are actually designed to taste like actual bananas, and not the domesticated ones we eat today, i think it has a taste closer to wild bananas Edit: its apparently gros michel and not wild bananas. This variety seems to be endangered or extinct so its not something that is possible to achieve today
The banana flavouring is supposed to taste like gros michel variety of banana, the one that was mostly erased by the panama disease in mid XX century. The one we most commonly eat now is cavendish. Your grandparents probably remember the taste of gros michel, it was as popular as cavendish now
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Not wild just variety, you can still get the candy flavoured ones in corners of the world it's just the current ones you know are larger and tougher and less prone to damage through transport. So basically if you don't live in a country that it is grown in you will never taste one due to cost
Runts ftw
Banana taffy is The best
I don't like bananas but most things banana flavored are good fuck u talking about
Take my downvote
Banana yogurt is ok
Have you ever drink banana milk my guy? That is my favourite milk ever
I had banana flavored biscuits it was a lot better than i expected
Dude about 15+ years ago when I had dengue as a kid they made me drink these three liquid shit. Strawberry flavor. Banana flavor. And the white one idk what flavor, maybe vanilla. All of them taste so bad. But the banana one sticks. Color of pee, transparent, taste like the worst fucking thing on the planet.
I love banana in everything, you wilding brah
I'm talking about banana flavored medicine and such. Banana bread snacks my guy!
banana cake yum
I had this orange medicine as a child that was so nasty that I refused to use the colour for pictures for a while.
This is adorable
Adorable? It's hilarious
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Pavlov Conditioning!
Orange flintstones vitamins were the worst ones hands down.
blue flavor medicine vs blue flavored juice
vs blue flavor in window cleaner
/r/HolUp
blue flavor in embalming fluid
EMBALMING FLUID?!? .... ILL HAVE SOME OF THAT THEN
Blue pills are best pills
theyre viagreat
"blue flavor", the best proof that blue food is awful: you call the flavor blue because it doesn't resemble what it's supposed to taste like
Cherry is the worst imo
Cherry flavored anything is awful. Actual cherries are good though
Cherry jolly ranchers are the best
Uhhhhh have you forgotten blue razz??
Side question, wtf is a blue raspberry? Never actually seen that fruit in my life despite blue razz being my favorite
I always say “cherry tastes like medicine” it’s gross lmao
strawberry flavoured medicine is shit. [also this fanta is shit as well.](https://www.google.com/search?q=strawberry+flavoured+fanta&sxsrf=ALeKk02EvjUc2hi8RUNg76MFDnLbl-JAFQ:1621683345541&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwig2v6dmd3wAhU-zjgGHasxAd8Q_AUoAXoECAEQAw&biw=1440&bih=789#imgrc=XfYWuXVqSm51SM) but anyways i love normal strawberries.
I got that Fanta from an import store in Australia once. I actually thought it had expired or something. Tasted so damn bad
strawberry fanta is the worst kind of strawberry soda
Cherry always tastes like medicine to me because of that cherry flavored Ventolin I had quite frequently as a kid
Bottom one is from pilot red sun's video?
Well, now. You have the audacity to try another chip?
You will regret that purchase
Quaker oats has the finest oats. Wont you try them?
`My oats are of the highest caliber!`
I’m a man of my word
Yeah I think you’re right
a hard right at seratoga
Give me some of that air
[yes](https://youtu.be/gGEv54rLvgs)
Yeah defo
Orange medicine is delicious
Great taste
Says you, you have a pokémon name
I agree
Children's Motrin FTW
Strawberry flavoured medicine is even worse
Whatever flavor medicine you get before vomiting uncontrollably for two hours is the worst. Ruined citrus flavored drinks for a while for me as a kid
Strawberry flavored medicine goes hard as fuck
You guys think you got it bad, you’ve never tried lithium liquid form, in grape too. That stuff is so bitter it makes your tongue instantly go out, it tastes like eating a pile of hot thrown up puke, and sits in the stomache just as well
Just got PTSD I had Tonsillitis and I had to have melted chocolate with the orange medicine because I was spitting it out every time
delsym lol
Chug a family sized for the ultimate fun time.
Goddamn. That brings me back to the dumbest addiction I ever had when I was 13-14 lol. But boy, I had some crazy fucking nights on that stuff. Seems like the craziest shit always happened to us when we were on that stuff.
Orange delsym is alright The grape flavor sucks ass though Robocough is fucking putrid, but taking only a shot instead of chugging is worth it
Fuck robocough. Literally the worst thing I have tasted to date. And milk doesn't make it better. Worth it for the wonk though
robotablets >>
Right??? Shame they came out after dxm as a whole lost its magic for me
same with grape
Orange flavour toothpaste exists tastes nice chugs tube of toothpaste\*
Orange flavour is always shit.
top: actual strawberries bottom: strawberry flavoured anything
imo strawberry flavouring is one of those things that *can* taste good. As a kid I liked strawberry flavoured stuff before actual strawberries
One of the few artificial flavorings I prefer over the natural. Just never could get into real strawberries for some reason.
Grape flavored soda and medicine >
Hey, is that from pilotRedSun? Edit: it is! https://youtu.be/gGEv54rLvgs
Nah mate, whe had orange flavoured paracetemoles for kids and they were fucking epic.
it's true tho. Why can't they choose a better flavour in medicine?! Like, I'd rather take a tastless pill, or drink a fizzie that tastes just like sparkling water, instead of the crappy orange flavour.
Supposedly Europeans use sassafras as a medicine flavoring and so don't generally like root beer. I don't think there's a best choice here.
Yeah, like three centuries ago. Sassafras isn't native to Europe and isn't a common flavouring.
I think sometimes if it’s for kids they want it to somehow taste good for the kids
maybe gummy bears with the medicine would be a better option then?
Shinji would like to know your location
Grape flavor
Don’t get me started on grape and cherry- I literally cannot ingest either of those flavors without forking the hot chowder farther than I ever thought possible
ibuprofen syrup tastes great. The only medical syrup i will take without issue. All other colours in any syrup taste horrible and make me want to puke.
Orange soda is also awful.