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Drusas@fedia.io
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Tilting your head down can actually help with swallowing by a lot.

Insert pill. Put liquid in mouth. Tilt chin down. Swallow.

Source: have dysphagia, can only swallow pills and other hard substances by tilting head down

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Y|yukichigai@lemmy.sdf.org
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It varies a lot from person to person. The only way I was able to learn to swallow pills at first was to deliberately swallow air, like you do if you want to make yourself burp. Head forward? Head back? Both interfered.

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shrugs@lemmy.world
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some pills have nasty taste if they touch your gums or mouth. fill in water first, then pill, then swallow.

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Drusas@fedia.io
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Guess that just didn’t bother me, but yeah, which you do first didn’t make a difference in terms of swallowing. It’s all about tilting the chin down to open the throat.

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MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de
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At least close your mouth first, unless you like spilling drink+pills everywhere.

Pretty sure tilting the head down is implied in my personal swallowing process. I’m not sure I can actually swallow anything with my chin up.

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zaph@sh.itjust.works
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Tilt head back, open mouth, drop in pill(s), IMMEDIATELY swallow

Definitely not implied. I thought your entire point was keeping the head tilted back.

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MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de
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Good for you. Only reason to tilt the head back is to not spill. Closing the mouth fixes that. This is “pill taking recommendations”, not “re-thinking swallowing-in-general 101”

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✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.world
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They’re talking about a way to prevent aspiration with dysphagia by tilting the chin down to the chest.

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