| According to industry experts, crushing your | | | | problems such as blocked vessels, kidney stones |
| medication and vitamins can increase your | | | | and joint pain. In this case, you can take enzyme |
| body’s absorption rate of the ingredients | | | | supplements to help the digestion process, but |
| and thus increase the speed of their | | | | there is still no guarantee the vitamin will be fully |
| effectiveness. Certain medications and vitamins | | | | absorbed. The simplest way to guarantee that |
| should not be crushed due to their time release | | | | you will get the maximum potential out of your |
| properties. Consult your physician before crushing | | | | vitamins and medications is to crush them to a |
| any medications or vitamins. | | | | powder with a pill crusher. Crushing them to a |
| One of the most common terms spoke of in | | | | powder will allow your digestive enzymes to work |
| healthcare facilities related to vitamins is | | | | on the active ingredients in vitamins and |
| Bedpan Bullets. A large percentage of | | | | medications alongside other ingredients such as |
| vitamins on the market are NOT absorbed by the | | | | DCP’s. If not crushed, your digestive |
| body and are passed through into the bedpan, | | | | enzymes may never even get a chance to |
| thus called Bedpan Bullets. According to | | | | breakdown much of the active ingredients and |
| doctors, vitamin remnants are found on a regular | | | | thus limiting their effectiveness. |
| basis during surgeries and in many cases the | | | | There are many types of pill crushers on the |
| brand name is still legible. | | | | market ranging in price from $5 to $150. On the |
| It is not only in healthcare facilities in which | | | | less expensive end there’s the twist style |
| vitamins are showing up. Waste plants throughout | | | | which the cover is twisted and a plunger crushers |
| the country filter out tens of thousands of | | | | the medication. The drawbacks of this style are |
| pounds of vitamins each year. It is commonly | | | | cross-contamination of ingredients when not |
| considered the most expensive waste in the | | | | thoroughly cleaned between uses and breakage |
| world. | | | | when used with harder medications and |
| To fully understand why these vitamins and | | | | particularly vitamins. The most common home |
| medications are not as effective as could be, you | | | | and travel style pill crushers are metallic and similar |
| must understand the processes involved in both | | | | to a garlic crusher. The vitamins and medications |
| the creation and absorption of such. Vitamins and | | | | are crushed in an individual bag so cross |
| some medications are typically a combination of | | | | contamination is eliminated. |
| multiple ingredients and require a binding agent to | | | | Hospitals and healthcare facilities prefer the use of |
| hold them together. The most common binding | | | | heavy duty metal pill crushers with a base and |
| agent is called DCP (Di Calcium Phosphate) and it | | | | handle. The handle has a plunger that crushes the |
| is very difficult for the body to digest. | | | | vitamins and medication between two soufflé |
| Once the vitamins and medications are ingested, | | | | cups. The crushed ingredients then can be mixed |
| your body utilizes enzymes for digestive | | | | in with food or drink. This style of pill crusher has |
| purposes. These are typically broken down over | | | | been around for over 30 years. |
| time but in many cases this is not so. Vitamins | | | | The benefits of crushing vitamins and medications |
| particularly can contain large amounts of DCP | | | | are significant. The effectiveness is greatly |
| which require a much higher amount of digestive | | | | increased due to the rapid and near total |
| enzymes than the body typically produces. | | | | absorption of the ingredients giving the consumer |
| Undigested molecules may also end up in your | | | | a better return on their investment. |
| circulatory system causing a multitude of | | | | |