if you swallow instead of chew antacid tablets like tums does it still work?

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simple answer is yes it does.it may take longer but it will still work believe me i've tried it

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Yes, but it will take a little longer for the medicine to start working.

I think so. Um, yes, but it takes longer because your stomach has to do all the work your mouth should have. Part of the reason they make them chewable like that is so that you crush it up and the medicine is more quickly available where it needs to be in order to stop the heart burn.

Yup.. it just takes a few minutes longer for the tablets to dissolve.

Yes, the tablet is broken up from the acids in your stomach. I would not recomend it b/c TUMS are big and meant to be chewed,

yep , they still work. but chew them for better response. Y yes happy day

yes,but it takes much longer

For an anti acid to work effectively it needs to be broken down to smaller particles so that to increase the surface areas of these particles to releases their chemical effect that neutralizes the acid produced by the stomach. If swallowed without being chewed first the surface area exposed to the acid in the stomach is much smaller compaired to chewed particles surface area when combined all together. So its efficiency will be too small and with slow peaking up to counteracts the effect of acid.

Tums can give you acid reflux. Try gingera instead. It's all natural

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