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What is the most important information I should know about ascorbic acid? What is ascorbic acid? Ascorbic acid is used to treat and prevent vitamin C deficiency. Ascorbic acid may also be used for purposes not listed in this medication guide.
What should I discuss with my healthcare provider before taking ascorbic acid? If a medication does not dissolve in the stomach , it is usually the job of the juices inside the large intestine to break it down, before it is further metabolised.
Eloise Schepers Pundit. How do you take gel pills without swallowing? For the "lean-forward" method, you put a pill on your tongue, and take a sip of water without swallowing. Tilt your chin toward your chest and swallow while your head is down. These techniques might work like a charm for you, but Dr. Magdalina Jablontsev Pundit. How do you swallow a pill if you are scared? Fill a plastic water or soda bottle with water. Put the tablet on your tongue and close your lips tightly around the bottle opening.
Take a drink, keeping contact between the bottle and your lips and using a sucking motion to swallow the water and pill. Don't let air get into the bottle. Zanobi Balulo Pundit.
What happens if you break an extended release tablet? Don't split extended - release or time- release medication. Don't split the entire vial of tablets at one time—air degrades the exposed drug.
Do split your tablets only as you need them, to maintain potency. Mjid Rosycka Pundit. What can I mix crushed pills with? Take your crushed pills with food or a liquid other than water. Good food options for mixing crushed medications include:. Houssine Yvelin Teacher. Can sublingual tablets be crushed? In our latest question and answer, our pharmacist discusses whether or not chewable tablets can be swallowed whole.
Yes, the vast majority of chewable tablets can be swallowed intact with no problems. Chewable tablets are designed and manufactured to be broken up in the mouth, to aid people with swallowing problems or to increase palatability. When chewable tablets are swallowed whole, the acid in our stomach will dissolve them. It is extremely rare for a chewable tablet that can not be swallowed whole, but there are examples.
One such example is the prescription drug Fosrenol lanthanum carbonate. After the drug was released, there were reports of serious GI obstruction and fecal impaction when chewable tablets were swallowed whole.
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