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What influences affect absorption of oral medications?
It is important to follow directions regarding taking medication with or without food as stomach contents can affect absorption. In addition, some foods can interfere with medications (grapefruit juice is known to affect several medications).
What patients with spasticity can benefit from oral medications?
Oral medications are typically most useful in patients with mild, widespread spasticity, or those for whom sedation is not a problem.
Where are most oral medications absorbed?
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What are the drug interactions associated with taking fenugreek?
Enhances anticoagulant activity and not to be used with heparin, warfarin, ticlopidine. Diabetic medications need to be under medical supervision. May alter the absorption of any oral medication. And more . . .
Rates of absorption of medication are important. In what order would methods of absorption be arranged from fastest to slowest?
Answer is A. injection, oral, topical
Rates of absorption of medication are important in what order would methods of absorption be arranged from fastest to slowest?
Answer is A. injection, oral, topical
How do you give calcibloc oral or sublingual?
Sublingual for easily absorption of the medicine
Why all drugs are not given through parenteral route?
Most take medications at home and do not have the training nor the equipment to do so. Only drugs designed and intended for administration via a parenteral route should be taken that way. If drugs designed to be taken orally are administered parenterally the "user" could be harmed, and the medication may work very differently than intended. In addition, most drugs are tested as orally administered medications. The way they are absorbed, how they are metabolized, and the dose and time to effect are all designed for oral administration.
What are the most common diabetic medications?
Diabetic medications fall in three categories: oral diabetes medications, insulin, and other injectable medications. The following web page has a list of common drugs that may be prescribed for diabetes: http://www.healthcentral.com/diabetes/find-drug.html
How can a patient achieve relief with sub-lingual nitroglycerin when the oral route typically has an absorption phase of 15 to 30 minutes?
Nitroglycerin is rapidly absorbed through the oral mucosa. Doses intended to be swallowed are also enclosed in a gelatin capsule and usu. micro-pelleted, both of which slow the rate of availability.
Which route of administration allows a medication to enter the bloodstream directly?
Medications given by Intravenous (IV) routes are 100% absorbed because they have no barriers to entry into the bloodstream.Intramuscular (IM) injections give less absorption because it enters large muscle.Subcutaneous (Sub-Q) injections give less absorption because it enters the fatty layer of tissue just under the skin.Oral administration must travel through stomach and small intestines before absorption occurs.Sub-lingual (under the tongue) has a faster and higher rate of absorption than "by mouth" (oral) because sub-lingual means the med sits against the oral mucosa as it dissolves and is picked up by capillaries.Rectal administration and vaginal administration has a slightly higher rate of absorption than oral administration because
In what order would methods of absorption be arranged from fastest to slowest?
The order in which the methods of absorption are arranged from the fastest to the slowest are Injection, Oral, and Topical.
