Easier to swallow.
The coating is slippery and saliva stimulating, which makes tablets easier to swallow.
Tablet coating · Swedish innovation
Makes tablets
easy to swallow – and makes them taste great.
MEDCOAT® is an innovative, award-winning product that lets you apply a swallow-enhancing and taste-masking coating to tablets, capsules or pills yourself, just before taking them.
Developed and manufactured in Sweden
SMALL COATING.
REAL DIFFERENCE.
REAL DIFFERENCE.
Meet your tablet’s
new best friend.
Swedish
innovation
innovation
98%
of adults with swallowing difficulties found coated tablets easier to swallow
Study details 87%of children found it easier to swallow tablets
Study details 100%said the bitter taste of a tablet was completely masked
Study details ≈ 47sthe coating dissolves after swallowing and does not hinder the uptake of the drug
Study detailsA SMALL CHANGE TO YOUR ROUTINE
MEDCOAT® makes tablets…
Taste good.
The coating masks the taste of tablets and replaces it with a pleasant and refreshing taste of citrus, strawberry or cola.
Safe and simple.
Contains only common food ingredients, about 0.2 g per coating.
Food-classified ingredientsWorks with most tablets.
For tablets and capsules of different size and shape, whole or divided.
YOU’RE IN GOOD COMPANY
For different people.
For everyday life.
Children
Children often have difficulty swallowing tablets, especially bad-tasting tablets such as antibiotics.
Older adults
The elderly often have difficulty swallowing tablets due to dry mouth or dysphagia (swallowing disorders).
Adults
Many healthy adults also have difficulty swallowing tablets. Temporary difficulties can also occur, for example with a throat infection.
Many people have difficulties swallowing tablets
Difficulties in swallowing tablets and capsules are a widespread problem among patients. Two large groups that often have these difficulties are children (e.g. when taking bad-tasting medicine such as antibiotics) and the elderly with swallowing disorders (e.g. due to dysphagia or xerostomia). Many adults also have difficulty taking tablets. In a Norwegian study of 6,158 persons, 30 % of the women and 15 % of the men stated that they had difficulty swallowing tablets.
Read moreWhen MEDCOAT® is suitable
- Difficulties swallowing tablets
- Big or hard-to-swallow tablets, especially when they should not be crushed
- Bad-tasting medicine (e.g. cortisone, antibiotics, metformin, etc.)
- To get children to learn to swallow tablets
- Dry mouth (xerostomia) causing difficulties swallowing tablets
FIND YOUR FAVOURITE
Three flavours
Sugar free · Gluten, lactose and soy free.
TABLET COATING
Citrus
TABLET COATING
Strawberry
TABLET COATING
Cola
CLINICALLY DOCUMENTED
Small coating.
Studied results.
MEDCOAT® has been evaluated in two published clinical studies, a literature review on interaction risk and a laboratory disintegration study.
Explore the clinical documentation98%
of adults with swallowing difficulties found coated tablets easier to swallow.
Adult clinical study · Pharm World Sci 2010
Developed in Sweden. Made in Sweden.
A SWEDISH IDEA, SHARED WITH THE WORLD
A prize-winning
Swedish innovation
MEDCOAT® is developed and manufactured by Med Coat AB in Sweden. The technology has received the NOVA prize at Entrepreneurial Day in Gothenburg, 2nd prize in the Innovation Cup Region East and 2nd prize in McKinsey's Venture Cup, presented by the King of Sweden, Carl XVI Gustaf. MEDCOAT® is patented in the EU, USA, China, Japan and South Africa.
CLOSER THAN YOU THINK
Where to find MEDCOAT®
Available in pharmacies and online pharmacies in the following markets.
Sweden
medcoat.seNorway
medcoat.noDenmark
unigroup.dkFinland
In pharmacies
Germany
medcoat-schluckhilfe.deLET’S MAKE IT EASIER, TOGETHER
Bring MEDCOAT® to your market.
MEDCOAT will soon be available in more countries, and we are continuously looking for distributors and partners for new markets.
Who can use MEDCOAT®?
MEDCOAT® can be used by adults, and also by children from the time they learn to swallow whole or divided tablets. Children can often learn to swallow small tablets from the age of 3–4 years. Please note that some tablets should not be divided. Consult your doctor or your pharmacist if you are uncertain.
Is MEDCOAT® safe to use?
The MEDCOAT® coating dissolves quickly after the tablet has been swallowed (about 45 seconds), and it only contains food-classified ingredients that are not known to interact with drugs. Each coating is only about 0.2 grams.
Read the supporting documentationHow many tablets can be coated with one package of MEDCOAT®?
There are different package sizes of MEDCOAT®: 10-, 20- and 30-packs are currently sold. Each applicator can be used to coat two small or one big tablet, so a 20-pack can be used for 20–40 tablets depending on tablet size. When an applicator is used for two tablets, you first push one tablet through and twist it off. After that you can push a second tablet through, as long as the tablets are not too big. Swallow the coated tablets one at a time with water, since otherwise they can stick to each other.
What are the ingredients in MEDCOAT®?
- Citrus (original): Sweetening agent (maltitol syrup), vegetable fat, acidity regulator (citric acid), emulsifier (sugar esters of fatty acids), gelatine, natural colour (curcumin), natural flavours.
- Strawberry : Sweetening agent (maltitol syrup), vegetable fat (coconut, palm*), acidity regulator (citric acid), emulsifier (sucrose esters of fatty acids), gelatine, colour (anthocyanins), natural flavours.
- Cola : Sweetening agent (maltitol syrup), vegetable fat (coconut, palm*), acidity regulator (citric acid), emulsifier (sucrose esters of fatty acids), gelatine, colour (caramel), flavourings.
*RSPO-certified palm oil.