Multvitamins - overcoming gag reflex

rachelbethany

It's not your gag reflex, it's the kind of vitamins you're taking! Most vitamins, especially multi-vitamins, that are sold in drugstores are coated in so much crap your body doesn't need that they can make you very sick just trying to digest them, not to mention that your body often CAN'T even get past all the coating to absorb the vitamins/minerals. Sure, eating with food/drinking lots of water CAN help, but I still typically throw up within 10 minutes of taking a traditional multi-vitamin.

I highly suggest investing in a higher quality vitamin that is simply a capsule full of loose vitamins/minerals. That way, your body can absorb it much easier, and, if you like, you can even empty out the capsules and ingest the contents in a drink or food.

Look on Amazon or somewhere for vitamins made by a company like Garden of Life. They have raw ones that even contain a probiotic for further help with tummy/digestive issues.

Faericn_Rising

make smoothies and throw the dust in there. you wont even taste it

Amayrial

Did you buy them somewhere like GNC that you could return them? if not.. I'd crush and mix into applesauce or pudding like someone else said. that is how they get people to take them in nursing homes.

VorJoshigan

Hey-o!

But seriously - what I do is fill my mouth up with water like I'm going to gargle and then I throw the pills all in and then I swallow real quick.

now_or_never12

Just swallow it really quickly. If you take your time and think about how gross they smell and taste of course it's going to make you gag. Put the vitamin in your mouth, drink water and swallow. Don't think about it.

penrbrown

Just swallow it really quickly. If you take your time and think about how gross they smell and taste of course it's going to make you gag. Put the vitamin in your mouth, drink water and swallow. Don't think about it.

I try this. Doesn't work. Something about the vitamin casing causes a magnetic reaction that I can't seem to get past.

I'm definitely trying the juice tomorrow and if that doesn't help I'll move onto releasing the powder into liquid and if THAT doesn't work I'll bite the bullet and get chewables or liquid vitamins.

hpsNcrvs

Just swallow it really quickly. If you take your time and think about how gross they smell and taste of course it's going to make you gag. Put the vitamin in your mouth, drink water and swallow. Don't think about it.

If it smells gross..and tastes gross..it shouldn't be in your mouth.

Ready2Rock206

Costco sells Vitafusion - Multi-Vites Gummy Vitamins. A bottle of 250 is about $10 and you take 2 a day. The calories are 15 per serving and they taste good. The nutritional content is great.

As far as the vitamins that you already have, I have a whole bottle of the regular adult version sitting in my medicine cabinet that I will probably toss once the experation date comes. I can't stand the thought of throwing them away, no one seems to want them, and there is no way I can force myself to remember to eat them either. So my suggestion would be to cut your losses and just do something that actually works for you.

This - the Multi-Vites Gummies are delicious. I usually buy mine at Target.


I hate the big nasty smelly regular ones too. Yuck.

SPBROOKS68

I have the opposite problem---Swallow them fine but then taste them all day and they taste nasty going down and nasty once down:sick:

sijomial

Get some hard cheese like cheddar, roll a small piece until warm and gooey and tuck the tablet inside.
Used to work on my cat....

seabee78

Chew up a bite of banana but don't swallow it yet. Chuck the vitamin into the banana mush in your mouth and then swallow. It goes down with the banana. This is better than liquid or water. Try it.