Tablets and capsules are extremely hard to take for large amounts of people. Dysphagia or swallowing difficulties can affect individuals spanning various ages including young children although it is most frequent in older people as they tend to be more susceptible to the causative illnesses and age associated changes in the features of the saliva glands. Dysphagia is a particularly serious difficulty in care homes for the elderly where about 1/3 of residents may well suffer from it which makes tending to them a far more difficult and time consuming process. The difficulties Dysphagia brings about may be serious since it interferes with medicine management and medication management if the affected individual has got difficulties swallowing tablets. Whenever tablets are taken orally they can sometimes result in a blockage and lead to choking. Tablets can also become caught in the throat which can lead to damage of the throat as well as the medicine not being correctly distributed around the body. The most popular and common method of dealing with Dysphagia has been tablet crushing to make them more palatable and easier to swallow. However crushing tablets is not the easy answer it looks and it can effect how the medication works within the body. A lot of pills have a sugar coating on them to make them taste more enjoyable and even though crushing them won’t have any kind of effect on the efficiancy of the tablet it may make them taste very unpleasant. Tablets with an enteric coating must never be crushed before they are used since the coating is made to keep the pill together in the stomach to either; guard the stomach from the medication, protect the medicine from the stomach or to release the medicine soon after it’s left the stomach. Luckily there is an alternative solution for people who suffer from Dysphagia and the people that care for them. Today there exists a wide range of medicines which can be taken orally and possess the exact same effects as tablets or pills. Oral liquid medicine may be used to deal with the results of a number of ailments and conditions and the array of illnesses it may be used to treat is increasing all the time. Liquid medicines are effortless to swallow for those with Dysphagia and are available in a number of pleasant flavours. Specials’ manufacturers are not allowed to promote individual ‘Special’ items, because the Medicines Act only allows advertisement of licensed medicines. Therefore it can be hard to get the correct information about unlicensed medicines.