Why can t you swallow pills dry?

Sometimes we see people swallowing pills dry for convenience or without water, but doctors don't approve of this practice, and that's why. Swallowing pills dry can cause serious damage to our esophagus, and some medications can form stones in the body. If it is a capsule, dry swallowing will cause the capsule to not enter the stomach quickly, and may attach to the esophagus, and when the drug is released in the esophagus, it will harm the esophagus, causing mucosal damage and even ulcers.

There are also some people who like to break the pills and take them dry, so that the drug loses the protection of the enteric coating, which will not only affect the efficacy of the drug, but also increase the adverse effects of the drug. Therefore, we must read the drug instructions before taking the medicine, and take it on time and in accordance with the doctor's instructions.

When you swallow the pills dry, the pills are swallowed hard by the action of saliva, which is likely to cause some damage to your esophagus. The second is that dry swallowing pills is likely to strayed into your trachea, which will affect your normal breathing, which is really dangerous. The second is that drinking water can play a more effective role in the effect of medicine.

For example, some capsules need the action of water to brew the outer capsule shell in order to make its effect exert as soon as possible, but if you swallow the pill directly, there is no way to achieve this effect.

We don't say what is the harm of swallowing pills dry, in fact, sometimes try to swallow pills dry, you will find that it is difficult to swallow, especially some pills are more smelly and bitter, which is more difficult to swallow, if you do not succeed when swallowing, it is still in the throat, and the smell and bitterness inside are emitted, and it is easy for us to cause vomiting. Therefore, when we usually take medicine, it is best to take it with warm boiled water, which will help us to swallow better, and at the same time, the tablets swallowed into it can be dissolved in time after the adjustment of water, and it can be dissolved in time, so that the effect of the medicine can be released and can play a curative role in time, while the dry swallowing of the tablets, because it is difficult to melt, its effect will take effect for a longer time.

Once in the wild, when it was time to take medicine, he found that the water he had brought before had been drunk, in order to save effort, he thought that it was just two small capsules, and swallowed them dry, but the capsule stuck to the bottom of his throat, and it was useless to swallow saliva hard, so that he couldn't go up or down, and he was uncomfortable. In the end, I found a family on the side of the road to ask for a bowl of water to drink, and then swallowed the two capsules. Later, I told this as a joke to a doctor friend of mine, and she immediately warned Mo Shanghua:

This practice of swallowing pills seems to be nothing, but there are great safety risks, and it is very important! Dry swallowing of tablets, because of the lack of water, will make the drug dissolve slowly, which is not conducive to human absorption, affects the effectiveness of the drug, and will greatly reduce the effect of the disease.

A person's esophagus has physiological strictures, and if the pills are swallowed dry, it is likely that these drugs will get stuck in these strictures in the esophagus, which can lead to esophagitis or esophageal ulcers. Therefore, in order to give full play to the efficacy of the drug, achieve the expected therapeutic effect, and prevent esophageal damage, we must take a certain amount of warm water when taking tablets or capsules, so that the drug can enter our stomach smoothly through the esophagus.

Some medicines are sugar-coated, mainly because they are very smelly and bitter, and there are also some medicines, which are wrapped in capsules, that is because of the medicinal ingredients in the medicines, some of which are easy to hurt the stomach, and some medicines need to be absorbed in the intestines, and there are capsules, which can avoid being dissolved by gastric acid. When taken with warm water, it can better move in the stomach and intestines and reach the part that needs to be reached as soon as possible.

The human esophagus has three physiological strictures. The pills are most likely to stay at the intersection of the esophagus and trachea; Patients with rheumatic heart disease mitral stenosis and enlarged atrium may have narrowed the lumen due to compression of the esophagus, making it easier for the pills to stay in the esophagus, and if you swallow the pills dry, it is likely that the tablets will get stuck in the esophagus and cause esophagitis or esophageal ulcers.