How to drink cough free and without embarrassment

Having had a stroke, you’ll know how important it is to have your drinks thickened to stop you coughing and choking on them.

But, don’t you or your caregiver find this easier said than done when you’re using a thickening powder? It’s incredibly difficult to do. In fact it’s a real chore.

You have to measure it out and make sure your adding enough to a drink to make it safe. It works differently in hot drinks, cold drinks and with different drink flavourings and if you don’t get it to the right consistency it can cause you to cough and choke uncontrollably.

None of this is explained on the tiny instructions on the side of the tin of thickener, which are about as clear as mud to follow. Whether it’s Thick And Easy, Nutulis, Thicken Up or Clinutren.

Making it virtually impossible for you to make them to the safe consistency that your Speech and Language Therapist or Dietitian has prescribed for you.

Worse still when you’ve made it you can end up with a drink that’s like liquid fly paper. It fees gritty, sticks your teeth like glue and sometimes tastes like it!

But you don’t have to put up with this. You can now enjoy hot drinks which taste like they should and are smooth to drink called - Slõ drinks made with Cadbury's Hot Chocolate, Nescafe Gold Blend Coffee, Lift Lemon Tea and our own distinctive White Tea.

A new range of hot pre-thickened drinks used in Hospitals on Stroke and Stroke Rehabilitation Wards across the country that move away from the old fashioned, frustrating and potentially dangerous way of making thickened drinks that you’re used to.

Taking all the frustration out of making your drinks safe

Instead of having to go through the usual palaver trying to guess how much thickener to add to a drink, you or your care giver doesn’t have to add anything. We’ve taken care of all that for you.

We’ve measured the exact amount of thickener needed for each consistency and we’ve put it in a cup with a drink flavouring.

NO Measuring - NO Weighing - NO Mistakes - NO Waste.

All you have to do is add water. That’s it, nothing else, just water up to a dashed line on the side of the cup.

And the clever part – so that you know how thick the drink will be – we use different coloured cups for each consistency. The darker the cup, the thicker the finished drink!

It’s worth pointing out that these, consistencies match The National Descriptors for Texture Modification in Adults 2002. A set of Guidelines that your Speech and Language Therapist uses to assess your swallowing ability.

So you never have the frustration or the worry that you won’t be able to follow your Therapist’s instructions again. It’s an absolute doddle to make a thickened drink that matches your prescription, time and time again. Just by adding water.

Make in a just minute

Even better, because you’re only adding water to the cup, it’s as easy as A, B, C to make a drink.

A. Boil your kettle and let cool a little
B. Add water to the cup, whilst stirring
C. Leave it to stand for around 4 minutes and drink

With only a few minutes practice you can make Slõ Drinks® just as well as your experienced Therapist; anywhere, at anytime of day.

Whether it’s a cup of Nescafe Coffee mid morning, a Lift Lemon Tea or strong cup of Tea in the afternoon or a rich, creamy Cadbury’s Hot Chocolate just before bed.

Whichever one you make you’ll enjoy cough free and with complete peace of mind because it’s smooth, tastes like you remember it did and it’s the right, safe consistency.

And you know it’s the right consistency because all Slõ Drinks® have been approved by one of the biggest and toughest Organisations in the UK to please – the NHS.

NHS Approved for your peace of mind

Mrs Smith, Lead Speech and Language Therapist at the Manchester Royal Infirmary teaching Hospital says:

  "We've been using Slõ Drinks for some time now and they're easier to make, look and taste far better than drinks made with thickening powder.
    To the extent that our patients actually ask for Slõ Drinks, that never happened before we started using Slõ Drinks."

They provide us with some of the most stringent standards to follow so that Hospitals can be totally confident in using Slõ Drinks® on their Strokeand rehabiliation wards.

And to make sure we maintain them, they regularly dispatch their auditor STS. Who inspect and check all of our systems and our products to ensure that we’re meeting the standards demanded. Allowing us to provide our drinks to any of the 300 plus NHS Hospitals across in the UK.

We therefore spend a huge amount of time sustaining those standards and procedures which is ultimately the responsibility of our Production Manager,
Mr Manfred Gawthorpe.

He is thorough, meticulous and follows a strict regime of checks with every drink he makes:

#1: Pre-production
Everything is checked from the machine, to the cups to the drinks; prior to starting production.

#2: During production
An ongoing series of weighing and measuring ensures that the all important thickener is being added in the right quantity.

He only permits this to vary plus or minus 0.2 of a gram. That’s about enough to cover your thumb nail.

This is all the more impressive when you know he produces 5000 drinks at a time.

#3: Post production
A random selection is taken from all the drinks made; weighed, tasted and checked for consistency before being given a seal of approval.

High Standards

It’s these standards, which have allowed Slõ Drinks® to be used on the Acute Stroke and Rehabilitation wards of leading hospitals across the country such as Manchester Royal Infirmary, Liverpool and Broadgreen Hospitals and across entire NHS Trusts including East Cheshire and Birmingham Heartland Trust.

Bear in mind that before we started supplying any of these hospitals, we had to fight through a wall of red tape for each one, which normally takes us 10 months to breakthrough.

So for all the hospitals we now supply that equates to something like, 16 ½ years of testing and approvals!!

Comforting and Enjoyable Drinks

Of course the fact that Slõ Drinks® are safe and you won’t cough or choke on them means nothing if you can’t actually drink them.

And with the memory of gagging on the taste of other thickened drinks fresh in your memory, I can totally understand you being skeptical. You might even be thinking “Mmmm – really – I don’t think so. I’m sure there’s no way I’m going to like these.”

But, please bear with me and suspend your skepticism for a just a mo.

The one reason, I’m sure you will like them is that Slõ Drinks® taste exactly the same as the drinks you’ve been having for most of your life – EXCEPT for one significant difference.

They’ve been made safe for your swallowing condition. So you can drink them without the embarrassment of choking, getting red faced and out of breath on them.

~ Cadbury’s Hot Chocolate – Rich and creamy
~ Lift Lemon Tea – Refreshing and light
~ Nescafe Gold Blend White Coffee – Comforting and smooth
~ White Tea – Our own strong and distinctive cuppa

They taste exactly as you remember. You can’t taste the thickener at all and they leave your mouth clear and refreshed. Which is why I’m so sure you’ll enjoy them as much as our regular Slõ Drinkers, who have this to say about them:

“Tastes better than drinks, thickened with powder “.

“Lemon Tea quite nice.”

“Very nice taste. Easy to use.”

“It’s like drinking an ordinary drink – but thicker!”

“After a while I forgot I was drinking a thickened drink”

Could you enjoy them as much? Of course you could and because you know
they’re so easy to make you’ll feel confident drinking them anywhere you go.

Open up your social life and have a safe enjoyable drink anywhere you go

You don’t have to cart a heavy suitcase full of thickener, flask of hot water, cups and all the other paraphernalia you normally need to make a drink with you anymore.

Just a handy sized cup and a stirrer, that’s so small and light they’ll fit into the smallest bag you want to take with you.

So now you're traveling light, what exciting new activities would you do or destinations would you visit that you thought were out of your reach?

A trip to the coast to have a look at some stunning scenery; look at a bustling harbour and then on to the beach to take in the sandy beaches and bracing sea air to enliven your senses.

Maybe you prefer to explore the grand designs and magnificent architecture of prestigious stately homes and their gardens.

Or perhaps you just want to meet up with your friends and family.

Wherever you want to go, whatever you want to do you can get the most out of it. Secure in the knowledge you can sit back, relax and refresh yourself quickly with
a safe and comforting Slõ Hot drink whenever you like.

And you know what else…anyone that happens to glance over whilst your making
a Slõ drink can't tell it’s a thickened drink - because you’re just stirring a drink, the most natural thing in the world.

Have a new lease of life and stop coughing and choking on your drinks now for only 30p a drink

To see for yourself how hassle free they are to makes and how smooth you'll find them to drink you can quickly and easily order them on line now. And 48 hours later you can be sat in your kitchen, hands cupped around the first proper hot drink you've had a for a while. Be it:

~ Cadburys’ Hot Chocolate
~ Nescafe Gold Blend White Coffee
~ Lift Lemon Tea
~ White Tea

All you need to do is decide which consistency you need, that matches the one prescribed to you by your Therapist and we'll deliver them via our certified courier straight to your door within 48 hours of receiving your order - Monday to Friday.

Buy on line now!

You won't have to go shopping for your favourite drinks again and then try and make them safe. They're delivered straight to your door by our certified courier and you can start enjoying them within 10 minutes of them arriving.

You won't throw away and waste a spoonful of coffee or milk because it's at the wrong consistency.

And at just 30p a cup, they're around 5 times cheaper than a hot drink that you could buy when you go to a coffee shop - BUT safe.

With 25 drinks of each flavour in a tube, there is enough drinks to last you for a while and you, your care giver or relatives can have a couple of attempts at making them.

Buy on line now!

PLUS

Buy to try and get up to 50% off your next order

I absolutely guarantee that you will like at least one of the flavours.

However you may prefer some flavours to others, so if you buy 2 flavours or more and find that you actually don't like one of them you can deduct from your first standard case order £ 7.00 for every flavour you didn't like!

• So if you decide to buy a case containing 4 flavours so you can taste them all and
• In the unlikely event you find you only like 1 of them.
• You can deduct a massive £ 21.00 (3 flavours at £ 7.00) from your first standard case order!!

That's up to 50% off. Your first order could be for half price!!

NO need to justify why you didn't like them. NO explaining. NO questions from us.

We'll totally understand it's a matter of your personal taste and we are happy to do it because it's important for you to find something you like.

Simple click here to buy on line OR click here to complete your details and we will post you a form OR call us on 08452 22 22 05 and we can post you a form.

I look forward to helping you soon.

Yours sincerely

Managing Director

T: 08452 22 22 05

Ps: If you want a refreshing alternative for when you want to cool down, Slõ cold juice drinks are available on prescription in the UK;

~ Tangy Orange
~ Fruity Blackcurrant
~ Zesty Lemon
~ Juicy Peach

You can ask your GP to prescribe them by downloading the form OR
completing your details here for us to post one to you OR
call us on 08452 22 22 05 and we’ll post you one.