ADEKs...Do we have to chew? Please help!

[Guest guest]

Hello out there! (Marta, Jo? are you awake???)

Dr. K has prescribed ADEKs. I remember I tried these before I was told

to take them about a year ago. I hate chewing them! Now that he

insists I make these part of my daily routine, I want to know if I can

just swallow them down with water and let them disolve once they are

in me? They just give me a belly ache if I chew them, it would be so

much easier if I didn't have to. Please let me know. Thanx, Deb :-)

[Guest guest]

Well, I think that is the whole point of ADEKs, that they are chewable

and water miscible. If you chew them you make the particles smaller,

faster, than if you just swallow them. It has not excaped my notice,

however, that they are shaped for easy swallowing.

You can bargain with the devil, I suppose, and take more of them and

swallow instead of chew. That sounds like something I would come up

with, lol.

Marta

with lab troubles, not the best example for anyone to follow!

[Guest guest]

The word has always been ADEKs need to be chewed. Perhaps you can

experiment with chewing them and eating something to coat the tummy at

the same time to avoid the nausea????

Also...try the dissolve test. Drop the tablet into warm water and see

how long it takes it to dissolve. If it mostly dissolves in 30 min.

then go ahead and swallow whole.

Jo