Many individuals have difficulties swallowing medication when it’s offered to them as tablets or capsules. Dysphagia is a problem which affects all ages although it is more common in the very young and also the very old. Up to 1/3 of people in care homes experience Dysphagia which makes looking after their health and wellbeing a much more difficult job. Dysphagia may have a serious effect on a patient’s health because it can interfere with medication management when the patient can’t or won’t take drugs in capsule form. Furthermore there is a threat that tablets ingested orally may cause choking or a blockage of the airway. Pills may also become trapped in the throat which can result in damage of the throat as well as the drug not being properly dispersed round the body. The most frequent way of working with patients with Dysphagia has been tablet crushing. However crushing tablets isn’t the simple solution it looks and it can effect how the medication works inside the body. Some pills are sugar coated to make them taste better and while crushing them may not change the way the capsule works it will make them taste very unpleasant. Tablets that have an enteric coating should really never be crushed before they are used as the coating is made to keep the pill together within the stomach to either; guard the stomach from the medicine, protect the medicine from the stomach or to release the medicine after it has left the stomach. Fortunately help is readily available for sufferers of Dysphagia and the people who take care of them. There is currently a larger range than ever before of liquid medicines that may be used orally and have precisely the same effect as pills or tablets. There are a number of drugs which oral liquid medicine may be used to replace and the number is growing all the time. Liquid medicines are very easy to swallow and also come in several different flavours.