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Is it beneficial to take medicine by chewing it instead of swallowing it?
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Depends on the medicine. You really should read the instructions or ask your doctor,or the staff at the pharmacy.
You need to remember that the environment in the stomach is quite nasty.
A chewed or ground-up pill will dissolve faster, which can be either good or bad.
Sometimes the active content of a pill will simply be destroyed by the stomach acids instead of being absorbed by the body if chewed.
Not a good thing.
If swallowed whole, the pill will have time to make it through the stomach and into the intestines before it dissolves, allowing the active content to be absorbed by the body as intended.
You can also have slow-release medicines, where the pill is meant to dissolve slowly to release a smaller amount of the active content over a longer time rather than giving one big, instant dose.
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