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Clinical Pharmacy-Pharm D Level Three 2 Semester 2024/2025 Pharmaceutical Technology (PT 607)
6- Sublingual Tablets:
– Small, flat ovals such as Nitroglycerin.
– They are ideal tablets for absorption of drugs which are destroyed by gastric juice or
undergo first pass metabolism.
7- Chewable Tablets:
– Disintegrate rapidly when chewed for patients with swallowing difficulty (children,
elderly) and when there is no access to water.
– Most commonly used for multiple vitamins and antacids.
8- Effervescent Tablets:
– In addition to the drug, this product form contains sodium bicarbonate and citric acid.
– When water is added the chemical reaction forms carbon dioxide, which acts as a
disintegrant and produces effervescence that fastens dissolution (antacids).
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