Question

What is the most interesting thing you learned from completing the “pharmaceutical dosage forms” assignments? What did you like or dislike about the topic? Was there a portion of the lesson that you found particularly interesting? Why? or Do you have a specific question regarding the material?

Answer 1

The pharmaceutical dosage form is classified depending upon its method of use or route of administration depending upon its physical form.

The most interesting thing is the knowledge of knowing that medicines are present from the primitive time, maybe not in this for but as a herb, various parts of plants or animal parts for external and internal healing. They were not that advanced, but men survived. This shows they had the knowledge about medicines. Their medicine was in nature. Early civilization was also using many forms of medicines like ointments powder or pills., syrup sweet preparation There are many medicines that are being used at present under different conditions.

It must have been difficult to find out the exact weight of the medicine to be used in a particular disease. This has given rise to the modern pharmacy to obtain a stable, elegant, safe and therapeutic active drug product, drug substances are formulated into appropriate dosage forms; each designed to contain a given quantity of active substance with accurate potency and according to the disease in different doses.1. Dosages are fixed for the early onset of medical action,

2. Some medicines are coated to avoid the undesirable taste and odor.

3. To avoid the drug molecules getting destroyed they are protected.

4. Medicines are produced like the injection that bypasses the first pass metabolism, some are given in the muscles or some are intravenous. That depends on the requirements and disease.

There are many numbers of drugs and their uses and dosages are fixed as per requirement and nature of the disease.

There is nothing to dislike about the topic it relates to human life. And with the progress of science, it has become possible to separate active molecules and use them in a manner that it gives a good result with fewer side effects. These substances are first researched on mice or other animals, after many numbers of trials it comes in market for use.

The materials in pharmaceutical dosage are the biodegradable and biocompatible materials that have enabled the advancement of pharmaceuticals by providing better therapy. It helps in management for patients through controlled release drug delivery. It is available for many routes of administration and offers many advantages over immediate release delivery particularly as microparticles and nanoparticles

It is of critical importance to investigate both biodegradability and biocompatibility, for example, NIPAAM that is Poly (N-isopropyl acrylamide) used to formulate thermo-responsive hydrogels is not biodegradable by hydrolysis.