Advantages and disadvantages of patch medication?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of medication you get through a patch such as motion sickness medication, hormonal treatment (birth control) and nicotine patches? I was told by my pharmacist that "in that great" does anyone know why? She also said it would save us a lot of worry and money I should own asked why but i didn't. If anyone has any input on this I would greatly appreciate understanding this a little better!
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Well, the ascendancy of them is that they're easy to use, and they give reliable, simple dosing. One of the most overwhelming concerns when dealing when designing a medication is making it easy to pocket. A perfect medication that someone has to take six times a hours of daylight just isn't going to fly. A patch, you stick on, and forget about until you have to amendment it. These can be daily, weekly, or sometimes longer.
The disadvantage to them largely lies in the design and manufacture. These concerns are honestly irrelevant to the patient, except that in some cases the cost gets passed on. The other point is that some people have mild allergic reactions, or basically plain irritation due to the glue in them. Reservoir based patch are occasionally susceptible to 'dose dumping', where the bladder in the patch that contains the drug splits and dumps the dose all at once, however, I can't consider of a single reservoir based patch offhand. All the ones I know have the medication fixed in the glue.
They're ok, but I broke out in a over-hasty where the patch was, had to switch to oral variation.
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Well, the ascendancy of them is that they're easy to use, and they give reliable, simple dosing. One of the most overwhelming concerns when dealing when designing a medication is making it easy to pocket. A perfect medication that someone has to take six times a hours of daylight just isn't going to fly. A patch, you stick on, and forget about until you have to amendment it. These can be daily, weekly, or sometimes longer.
The disadvantage to them largely lies in the design and manufacture. These concerns are honestly irrelevant to the patient, except that in some cases the cost gets passed on. The other point is that some people have mild allergic reactions, or basically plain irritation due to the glue in them. Reservoir based patch are occasionally susceptible to 'dose dumping', where the bladder in the patch that contains the drug splits and dumps the dose all at once, however, I can't consider of a single reservoir based patch offhand. All the ones I know have the medication fixed in the glue.
They're ok, but I broke out in a over-hasty where the patch was, had to switch to oral variation.
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