Tablets and capsules are extremely difficult to take for large numbers of people. Dysphagia is a problem which affects all ages although it is much more frequent in the very young and the very old. Up to 1/3 of occupants in care homes suffer from Dysphagia which makes looking after their health and well being a much more challenging task. Dysphagia consequences can be very serious as it can obviously interfere with medicine management and medication management proscribed by medical professionals when the patient is not willing or not able to take medication in pill form. There is also a chance that tablets and pills taken orally can cause a choking danger. There is also a danger that tablets may become lodged in the throat which might lead to the incorrect dispersal of the medication to the body as well as possible injury to the oesophagus. The most popular and common technique of coping with Dysphagia is tablet crushing to ensure they are more palatable and a lot easier to swallow. However even though tablet crushing may seem like the most obvious answer it can make a medicine taken using this method much less effective which can result in complications for the patient. Many tablets have a sugar coating on them to make them taste more pleasant and even though crushing them won’t have any effect on the efficiancy of the capsule it might make them taste really unpleasant. Pills with an enteric coating should never be crushed before they’re taken since the coating is made to keep the tablet together in the stomach to either; guard the stomach from the medication, protect the medicine from the stomach or to release the medicine after it’s left the stomach. Luckily there is now an alternative solution for people who have trouble swallowing pills and also the people that care for them. The importance of liquid medicines when managing patients with Dysphagia is being recognised by the medical community and it has resulted in calls for a wider variety of liquid medicines to be created. There are many of drugs which oral liquid medicine may be used to replace and the number keeps growing all the time. Liquid medicines are painless to swallow for those with Dysphagia and are available in a number of enjoyable flavours.