Question

Critical thinking scenario: Sally is providing patient education to an older patient, Mrs. Campo, who is having difficulty swallowing the large tablets needed for her medical condition. She tells you that two of the tablets have "deep lines" through the tablet and one has a very hard coat. Mrs. Campo wants to know if there is any way she can make swallowing the medicine easier. What about the tablet that seems to have an enteric coating?

Answer 1

One being cared of is thinking that its difficult to accept tablets or cases, it's anything but difficult to think the appropriate response is to squash a tablet or open a case to make gulping more straightforward. Blending the substance of a container with sustenance or adding a pulverized tablet to a drink may appear to be simpler than troubling your specialist or attendant to change a solution to an elective like a Liquid Medicine. Yet, you ought to never pulverize a tablet or open a container without first watching that it is sheltered. The least complex approach to check is to the patient data flyer which accompanies your pharmaceutical. On the off chance that this pamphlet says the prescription is reasonable for pulverizing, opening or blending with nourishment, at that point it is presumably protected to do as such.

Squashing tablets or opening cases which aren't intended to be taken along these lines:

-May cause genuine symptoms

-May keep the pharmaceutical from working legitimately

-May back off recuperation from disease

Numerous cutting edge prescriptions are extremely modern and are produced utilizing methods which impact how the pharmaceutical functions. Following quite a while of research, there are extraordinary adjustments to a few tablets which can mean the medication is discharged gradually, so you just need container daily. A few tablets have coatings intended to shield your stomach from the solution or to keep the stomach corrosive from assaulting the tablet.

These exceptional alterations can be decimated by squashing and the tablet may have an alternate impact and may cause reactions as it is pulverized. You truly can't tell just by a tablet or container it has one of these exceptional changes or coatings.