can xeloda 500mg tablets be crushed?
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How Xeloda Is Given:\n\nTaken as a pill by mouth. \n  \nTake after food (within 30 minutes of a meal) with water. (Usually taken in a divided dose 12 hours apart).\n \nTablets come in 2 sizes; 150mg and 500mg. \n \n**** Do not crush, chew or dissolve tablets. *****\n\nThe amount of Xeloda that you will receive depends on many factors, including your height and weight, your general health or other health problems, and the type of cancer or condition being treated.  Your doctor will determine your dose and schedule.
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Medicines are usually extremely bitter... it may even make you gag. If I were you I would ask my pharmacist if they carry smaller pills.
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The pill will not have its full strength.
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At about 10 milligrams per banana, you're talking a lot of bananas, and that doesn't even count the extraction and purification loss you'll have.\n\nWhy not try wood ash. It's easier.
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There is NO way for anyone to answer that without knowing the relative concentrations of active ingredients in both the pills and the liquid.  There are too many different sizes of pills and strengths of liquids to make anything resembling an accurate guess.
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One pill over the recommended amount is technically an overdose. \n\nYou can pretty much take as many as you want, and there will be no death occuring. \n\nResearch a better option.
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Oral B12 is not as effective.  When B12 is ingested orally, 50% is destroyed.
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No. Xenical is by prescription only.
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http://www.akrochem.com/pdfs/sulfenamides/X-BBTS.pdf\n\nWeb search BBTS and butyl for more information
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Because the Medication may very well have a Depressant Effect Similar to Alcohol. Also, if the Medication in Question was Consumed Prior to Operation of Heavy Machinery, and an Accident were to Occur, with No Warning Stated on the Label, a Lawsuit against the Meds.Maker may Very Well Happen . The Lawyers are Out There!
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Now there is a really good question!\n\nSeveral years ago an article was written about this.\nAnd we had an example of it being true!\nMost vitamin tablets can be found in your stool, intact!\nOn television they said that when sewer systems are cleaned out, these tablets are hauled away by the dump truck load. They clog the systems.\nOur personal experience was finding whole pills in my wife's stool in the bowl. I returned the bottle to the drugist and got our money back.
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approximately 0.145mg/L
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what pills? Try swallowing them in a piece of banana or bread..
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One practical thing to try now is to grind the pills and mix them into food or something drinkable.  Hopefully that would cover the texture and taste enough so they could tolerate it.  Try it first without telling the patient, so as to eliminate any psychosomatic reaction.  If they're still vomiting, then they have an intolerance to the medication itself, and you'll need to call the doctor to prescribe something else.\n\nMany medications are available in "elixir" form, which is basically the same thing as above, only the laboratory does it.  Can the person you're talking about handle stuff like cough syrup?\n\nNot so practical or affordable are injectable (subcutaneous) versions of the medications.  Not all medications are available in injectable form; they're expensive, and they have to be injected intravenously (which requires skill and training) or intramsucularly (which hurts).\n\nThere is a new kind of insulin product which is inhaled, though they're not sure yet what if any harm this could cause the respiratory system.  I doubt there are very many medications which are available as inhalants (other than those to treat respiratory ailments, of course).\n\nThen, of course, there are patches.  Again, not all medications are available in patch form.\n\nI think the most practical solution would be mixing it into food/drink.  Check with your doctor to see what he thinks, since it depends a lot on the medication.  Antibiotics, for example, usually shouldn't be taken with food; and there are some medications which cannot be taken with grapefruit juice, of all things.  But maybe there are elixir versions available that your doctor can prescribe.  Good luck.
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Used for emergency treatment of overdosage
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Yes - you will be overdosing on the iron within the pills.  This can be fatal, and is more common in children.
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Contain it in a tube.