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Parenterals: Advantages & disadvantages
Disadvantages
• Most patients would prefer other routes of administration to
parenteral route, which can be painful or stressful (some patients
suffer from needle phobia).
• An incorrect drug or dose is harder or impossible to counteract
when it has been given parenterally (particularly intravenously), rather
than orally.
• From a manufacturer’s point of view, it is often simpler and much
cheaper to prepare non-sterile medicines such as tablets or liquids.
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Salma E. EL-Habashy
