Why is it so easy to swallow food but not pills?
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Chewed food is squishy and conforms to the shape of the passage it’s in. Eating a small grape without chewing would feel like taking a pill. Additionally, some pills aren’t well coated and stick to wet flesh instead of sliding.
Sometimes when I don’t want to take a pill I pretend it’s a piece of cake instead. It doesn’t help.
Why are we dry swallowing pills? Hydro homie gang wins once again, take it with a sip of h2o.
It’s not actually difficult to swallow a pill. People just overthink it. A pill is generally a larger and more solid object than you’re used to swallowing so it takes a slightly more conscious effort but it’s still well within a persons ability. It’s sort of like getting a shot. People have traumatic experiences from childhood about having to swallow pills or get shots from the doctor’s and it sticks with them. In reality, the pain from an infection is absolutely minimal. It hurts 100x more to stub your toe. But it’s the anticipation and fear. Same goes with swallowing a pill.
It’s mostly a psychological thing because you aren’t chewing before you swallow a pill and it’s dry so you think you’re about to choke on something. If you take a swing of water and then drop in the pill it’s way easier to swallow because it helps you get past the “mental block” of not chewing the pill.
Wild to me people out here can shovel food into their mouth over and over but have trouble swallowing a single pill.
It’s really just a mental block.
Your tongue says that’s not food, your brain goes yes I know, but swallow it anyway and your tongue says no. It’s not food.
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