Dietary supplements can be hard to swallow
A study in The New England Journal of Medicine casts light on a little-known hazard associated with America’s multibillion-dollar dietary supplement habit: difficulty swallowing among older people who take vitamin and mineral supplements — particularly calcium supplements. Using a decade of records from 63 hospitals, researchers with the CDC and FDA estimated that 23,000 Americans […]
Teach your kids how to swallow a pill
The Kid’s Doctor By Sue Hubbard, M.D. I’ve always been a proponent of teaching children how to swallow a pill. In fact, I think I taught my boys this skill before they were 5 years old, mainly because I was tired of trying to find the measuring cup or syringe for liquid medicine, which often […]
What you need to know if you’re taking multiple medications
Harvard Health Letters Taking several types of medications can be challenging. But this is something you have to get right. If you don’t, you may have unwanted side effects, or you may not properly treat your chronic condition. “I see people who average 15 medications, and it’s very difficult for them to juggle that many […]
