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Former pharmacy tech here, 8 years compounding pharmacy.
Get a mortar and pestle, crush it up and put it in whatever.
If not then use yogurt or something gooey.
Aren't there slow-release pills that shouldn't be crushed?
Only EC(Enteric Coated) pills and capsule interiors cause they protect the pill against stomach acid until it reaches the intestine.
If it's got a shiny exterior like an Advil it's Enteric coated. If it's a capsule with EC granules you're gonna have a hard time crushing it anyway.
You're probably not going to have a problem with those though because Enteric coating is super sweet and capsules are usually neutral in flavor, so there's not much reason to try and hide the bitterness. For everything else there's no real functional difference between a smashed pill and a whole pill in your stomach.
I would suggest you [the reader] ask your doctor before actually doing this, just so you don't accidentally overdose someone (especially kids, who are more sensitive to dosage)
(I am not a doctor)
There's ER and other formulations you wouldn't want to crush, it's not just EC to avoid.
Yes. Most ER/XR/CD/EC shouldn't be. There's some others that shouldn't. Good to ask a pharmacist.
As a kid the bitterness of the crushed pill made me gag, even when mixed in something sweet like jam. Maybe my folks just needed to dilute it more with like an entire bowl of ice cream or something but I remember throwing up more than once because of the disgusting taste.
This is because Mary Poppins lied to us. It isn't a spoonful of sugar that makes the medicine go down, but something with a bit of salt in addition to that sugar. Salt masks bitterness.
meanwhile I chewed grapefruit and pomelo peels after eating the juice part, chewed whatever pills were given to me, chewed single coffee beans, other weird shit. I don't have the addiction any more after hitting my head a few more times.
toothpase though... somehow all of it fucks me up to varying degrees. I have settled on two that give me heartburn even if im super careful not to swallow any. the rest make me throw up or feel really not good.
Are you... Ok?
By the way if anyone's curious yes you can crush up Viagra, put it in Vaseline, and use it as a cream.
Yes you can put it there, and yes it's effective.
I've done it multiple times for people that would regularly go over that five hour limit, because skin absorption is slower and weaker than intestinal absorption.
Using yogurt, pudding, or apple sauce were always winners for me to get the kids to take pills.
Great for methylfenidaat.....