A lot of patients receiving medical treatment have difficulties swallowing drugs. Dysphagia may be found in all age brackets though it is most common in the very young and the aged. Older people have more issues with the problem because of changes to the saliva glands as they grow older. Studies have demonstrated that approximately 1/3 of all care home residents experience Dysphagia which makes caring for their health and well-being much harder and time-consuming. The problems Dysphagia causes can be severe since it interferes with medicine management and also medication management if the patient has difficulties swallowing tablets. Additionally there’s a risk that pills and tablets taken by mouth can cause a blockage of the throat or a choking risk. There’s even a chance that pills and tablets can become lodged in the throat which can lead to damage of the throat and the incorrect dispersal of the drug. Up till now the most common way of managing the difficulties that Dysphagia presents has been tablet crushing in order to make medicine easier to swallow. However crushing tablets is not the easy solution it looks and it can effect the way the medication works in the body. Some drugs are sugar covered to make them taste better and while crushing them might not change the way the capsule works it will make them taste very unpleasant. Pills with an enteric coating should never be crushed before they are used because the coating is designed to keep the tablet together in the stomach to either; protect the stomach from the medication, protect the medicine from the stomach or to release the medicine soon after it has left the stomach difficulty in swalloging. Fortunately there’s a solution for sufferers of Dysphagia as well as the people who care for them. The assortment of liquid medicine which is manufactured today is greater than ever before with more liquid medicines on the way. There are numerous of drugs that oral liquid medicine may be used to replace and the number is growing all the time. Liquid medicines are extremely easy to swallow and even come in a number of different flavours.