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Most medications come in tablet or capsule form. Once they’ve entered your stomach or intestines, they enter your bloodstream where they work their magic.
Tablets
Tablets are created by tightly compressing powdered drugs and ingredients in a tablet press machine. Tablets have long shelf lives and are easy to carry around; however, due to their unique shape and size, some people may find it challenging to swallow them.
Medication comes in both capsule and chewable tablet forms, usually composed of gelatin. Both types can hold pills of various shapes as well as liquid medications, with capsules typically holding solid drugs combined with ingredients that dissolve quickly into the stomach or bowel – making it less sensitive than pills and easier for some patients to swallow due to less of a rough texture.
Tablets and capsules may benefit from having special coatings applied to them to help them withstand disintegration in the stomach or intestine, make them easier to swallow, enhance their taste, appearance, or chemical properties, as well as to increase effectiveness or alter release rates over time. A coating may even increase effectiveness or change release rates over time.
Capsules
Capsules contain medication enclosed within an outer shell. Once swallowed, this shell disintegrates into its component parts to be absorbed through the stomach lining – an effective delivery system when drugs cannot be compacted into solid tablets.
Hard or soft gelatin capsules can be manufactured, with harder being better for drug powders while soft capsules work best with oily substances like fish oils or drugs that need to be dissolving in liquid before absorption.
Capsules may be difficult for young babies and patients with difficulty to swallow, in which case your doctor, pharmacist or nurse will advise opening up the capsule and dispersing its contents into a spoonful of water or juice before using an oral syringe to administer. Leaning forward while swallowing may also prove helpful; this technique must be taught and practiced prior to use.
Liquids
Liquids are less rigid than solids and more flexible than gases, conforming to any container in which they reside without having a fixed form like solids do. We often encounter liquids like water, milk, juice and oil around us and use them in cleaning products and hand sanitizers; some liquids such as alcohol can even combust when combined with oxygen.
Liquids transfer heat faster than gases, making them ideal for dissipating extra heat. Furthermore, they’re almost incompressible fluids; when compressed their volume does not change significantly.
At its core, liquids consist of millions of tiny particles (atoms or molecules) vibrating and rolling on top of one another. Cohesive forces hold these together but do not stick them together like solids would – instead, they allow small insects to walk over its surface easily.
Injections
Many cancer medications require injections. While some can be given in a doctor’s office, others must be prepared and administered at home. It is essential for those injecting themselves to learn how to do it safely; injections typically are made into veins, muscles or bones and can result in side effects such as pain and inflammation at the injection site.
Normal injection side effects typically subside within several days; however, reusing needles and syringes between people, or an accidental needlestick could lead to the spread of infectious diseases such as HIV or Hepatitis C.
Get yourself a hard plastic container with a lid to store used needles and syringes safely after use, seeking advice from your physician or pharmacist as to how best to dispose of them. Also remember to wash your hands first before giving yourself shots according to their directions – read through any instructions that come with your medication carefully, read and follow them before giving the shot, avoiding using needles/syringes equipped with built-in alcohol wipes as that may prove beneficial!
