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- Author Response to Dr. BrownShow More
We were well aware of the concise and thoughtful letter by Dr. Brown published in JAMA in 1982, which accurately describes the lean-forward technique and convincingly discusses its physical fundamentals. Along with DW Davis' patent (1968), this letter actually encouraged us to plan our study. When we submitted the first version of our article, Dr. Brown's letter was included in the manuscript references. We were then invi...
Competing Interests: None declared. - Swallowing MedicationsShow More
Your paper on swallowing medications reinforced the instructions provided by my letter to JAMA (JAMA 248:1833-4. Oct. 15. 1982). In that letter, I passed on a tip that was not original to me, but was seemingly unknown by medical professionals: Capsules, being lighter than water, are best swallowed by having water in your mouth and leaning forward, so they float back into your throat. If you tilt your head back, they flo...
Competing Interests: None declared. - Re:An alternate techniqueShow More
We *wanted* to study head posture training in seniors, using our training video http://www.research4kids.ucalgary.ca/pillswallowing in seniors, but we discovered that seniors in nursing homes tend to be rather set in their ways....and their primary preferences are a) putting pills in yogurt and b) in applesauce. It's pretty universal!
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Competing Interests: None declared. - Videos of techniques being used.Show More
The National Public Radio blog http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/11/11/363024822/trouble-swallowing-pills-try-the-pop-bottle-or-the-lean-forward includes videos that show the techniques described in the article being tried by Nina Totenberg, Alison Richards, and Maanvi Singh.
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Competing Interests: None declared. - Clinically speaking, a better techniqueShow More
I congratulate Schiele et al for their systematic assessment of two approaches to pill swallowing, but I would like to set the record straight about my own research on the topic (which they cited erroneously) and perhaps advance the discussion by describing our more clinically-effective method [1].
In 2010 my colleagues and I reported on 4 studies in a single manuscript [1]; it was only in one of those four that Do...
Competing Interests: None declared. - An alternate technique
A patient showed me another very helpful technique, but I have not had a chance to systematically study it. Has anyone else found it helpful to have patients put big pills in the middle of a spoonful of yogurt, and swallow that? I tried it with big vitamins, and it worked very well.
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