Q. I had a question regarding medication. I am pregnant and have been prescribed prenatal vitamins. I am unable to take the ones that need to be swallowed as they are too large for me to swallow and they cause me to throw up.

My OB prescribed me new vitamins, Select-OB Caplet (From the US), that can either be swallowed (but again, these are really large) or chewed. But I don’t know if they are Kosher.

Am I allowed to chew these vitamins?

A. Horav Shlomo Miller Shlit”a recommends breaking the (kosher) chewable caplets into small pieces prior to swallowing them. You can contact R’ Moshe Shore, a Frum and well-informed pharmacist, for pertinent information on the availability of kosher vitamins.

Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Shlomo Miller Shlit”a