HELP Pregnant mummy supplements compulsory ?

Gynae gave me multi vitamin pills, calcium tablets and fish oil as daily pregnancy supplements to take. But it’s really hard to swallow so many big pills every day, is it really a must to take the 2 calcium tablets everyday and other vitamin pills ? Or is it possible to replace it with other food options or possibly there are smaller size of tablets ? I am a really bad at swallowing tablets and pills type of person >

Yu Ting

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Same prob as you! What I did: use pill crusher (get from Watsons or Guardian) to make the pills into powder and sprinkle onto food to eat. For capsules, open the capsule, pour the content into a small container then sprinkle onto food to eat or you can sprinkle from the capsule to the food directly. For soft gel fish oil, pop into the mouth and burst it, suck the fish oil out and spit out the soft gel. Drink 4 cups of milk/soy milk daily to get adequate calcium. It’s hard work and very troublesome, for do it for the sake of your baby, it’s worth it! I usually take with food to mask the taste of the powder, hope this helps!

Anonymous

4y ago

hi. just want to share what I read about oral medications. there is a reason why some are in pill form and some are in capsule. pill or tablet is because the medicine should reach the stomach then breaks down there. the lining of the stomach should absorb the medicine. capsule form is because the medication should pass the acidity of stomach to reach the small intestine and only there the capsule should break down. it's supposed to be absorbed by the linings in the small intestine only. it will defeat the purpose if you open up the capsule and mix with food right away. you may research more abt it. 😊

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