I'm gonna make you feel alright

我會讓你感覺不錯

by teaching you how to swallow pills.

教你怎麼吞藥丸

If you're anything like my lovely and beautiful and talented wife, you probably have a very

如果你和我既賢慧又可愛漂亮的老婆一樣的話，在服用藥物的時候

hard time putting medication into your body because it's borderline physically unbearable

可能也會覺得非常痛苦，因為吞藥丸已經是身體能夠

for you to swallow pills.

容忍的極限了

It's seriously a 5 minute journey of frustration and sadness even when my wife is ingesting

即使是吞下小如止痛劑一般的藥丸，但對我老婆來說根本是痛不欲生

something as tiny as a pain-killer.

的五分鐘

And she's not alone.

並不是只有她而已

Studies suggest 1 in 3 people experience difficulty when tasked with swallowing oral medications

研究顯示三分之一的人在吞口服膠囊或藥丸時，都覺得非常難，

in tablet and capsule form, which ultimately leads to many people skipping out on vital

最終讓許多人對那些身體所需的處方避而遠之，

doses of prescription medication because they simply don't want to expose themselves to

因為他們一點都不想要有那種痛苦的

the literal pain of popping pills.

服藥過程

That's not good and that's why researchers from the University of Heidelberg, in Germany,

這並不妙，也因此讓海德堡大學的研究人員在德國召集 143 位有這樣狀況的患者，

rounded up 143 patients and subjected them to some pill swallowing tests.

給他們做了一些服用藥丸的測試

They had them gulping down all sorts of shapes and sizes and they did so to try and identify

讓他們大口吞下各種不同大小形狀的藥丸，而且也試著找出最好的方法

the best methods for getting the good stuff down the gullet.

來把東西吞下去

And they found that there is a best way to swallow capsules and a different best way to swallow tablets.

而且也發現一個吞膠囊的好方法和另一個吞藥片的好方法

And each method directly correlates to the density of the pills compared to the density of water.

每一個方法都和藥丸相對於水的密度直接相關

So, let's say you're rocking some pretty gnarly allergies and you need to down an anti-histamine

就以有嚴重過敏的你來說，你需要吞下抗組織胺的

capsule.

膠囊

With capsules, the research team discovered that the "lean-forward" technique is the

關於吞這些膠囊，研究團隊發現往前傾是最有效的方法，

most efficient and is 88% more effective than old-school methods of pills swallow it.

而且比以前的方法還要多 88% 的功效

Allow me to demonstrate.

就讓我來示範一下

You'll need your drugs, I'm using an intense breath freshener, and water about 20 ml, which is somewheres

準備你的藥物，我用的是勁涼的口氣芳香劑，還有20毫升的水，這大約

around a tablespoon.

是一湯匙的量

You simply place the capsule on your tongue, take a sip of water, don't swallow yet,

只要把膠囊放在舌頭上，喝一小口的水，先不要吞下去，

first, you need to lean forward by tilting your chin toward your chest, and then you swallow.

首先，你要往前傾，將下巴傾向胸口，然後再吞下去

Delicious.

美味

Because the density of a capsule tends to be lower than the density of water, your head position keeps

由於膠囊的密度比水小，頭的位置這樣子擺就能避免

the little bugger from swimming around in your mouth before it's journey down to tum

讓這個小東西在嘴裡跑來跑去，在這之後才會是

tum town.

它的胃部之旅

Tablets tend to be more dense than water so a different technique is required to basically

藥片的密度比水大，所以基本上需要用不同的方法來幫你

help shoot the dang things down your throat.

把這該死的東西吞進喉嚨裡

It's called the pop-bottle method.

這方法叫做飲料瓶子法

So let's say you get your daily vitamins like the rest of us and you're tasked with swallowing

就這樣來說好了，你每天和其他人一樣要吃那些維他命，而每一天都要為吞下

a horse pill every single day.

那一顆大藥丸而煩惱

You simply find a flexible pop-bottle like container, fill it with water, pop the horse

你只要找一個軟的那種飲料瓶的容器，裝水在裡面，把大藥丸

pill into your mouth, and then tightly wrap your lips around the opening of your bottle

放到你的嘴裡，然後嘴唇整個把瓶口含住，

like you're giving it the good loving, and then without letting air seep into the bottle,

像是你在好好愛護它一樣，接下來完全不要讓空氣跑到瓶子裡，

maintain firm lip-to-bottle contact and use a sucking motion to flush the tablet into

維持嘴巴對著瓶口的姿勢，再作一個用力吸的動作，把藥整個沖到

your body.

你的身體裡

Here we go.

來吧！

If you're doing it right, you should feel the bottle slightly collapse into itself.

如果你做對了，應該會感覺整個瓶子稍微變扁了一些

Now, both these methods were tested against simply taking a sip of water and swallowing,

現在這些方法都用來和純粹只是喝水來吞藥丸來做比較，

something that most people do I assume, and the patients pill-swallow rate greatly increased

我想這是大多數人都會做的，而患者利用飲料瓶子法還有往前傾的方法來吞藥丸的比例

when utilizing the pop-bottle and lean forward techniques.

是大幅上升的

So, if you're one of the 1 in 3 plagued with an inability to swallow pills, give these

所以，如果你是那三分之一苦惱於沒辦法吞下藥丸的人，試看看

methods a shot.

這些方法吧！

They just might cure what ails you.

可能就能解決那些苦惱你的事情了

I'm Dr. Joe Bereta and I just insulted all the doctors of the world by calling myself

我是醫生 Joe Bereta，這樣自稱為醫師，真的是侮辱了世界上

a doctor.

所有的醫生

I'm sorry.

我感到抱歉

Hey, do you guys have any techniques that work for you, let us know in the comments

嘿，你們還有什麼其他對你有效的方法嗎？留言在下面讓我們知道，

down below and be sure to subscribe for more DNews.

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