Chewing gum, being a pleasant formulation, requires effective taste-masking techniques, such as encapsulation methods along with an amalgamation of flavors and sweeteners. Taste-masked medicated chewing gum offers palatable way administering drugs dietary supplements to children old-aged people. The concept development provides sustained modified release actives through various microencapsulati...

The extrinsic sources for erosion-causing acids are primarily acidic beverages and foodstuffs. Effervescent tablets also contain organic acids (e.g. citric, tartaric, malic) in order to form carbon dioxide by contact with water – with the help of the carbonate salts of the tablets. To adequately inform patients about the possible erosive potential of effervescent tablets, this study was underta...

Fast disintegrating tablets of lorazepam were prepared by effervescent method with a view to enhance patient compliance. A 3(2) full factorial design was applied to investigate the combined effect of two formulation variables: amount of crospovidone and mixture of sodium bicarbonate, citric acid and tartaric acid (effervescent material) on in vitro dispersion time. Crospovidone (2-8% w/w) was u...

Purpose: The aim of the present study was to develop orodispersible tablets of diethylcarbamazine citrate (an anthelmintic) for improving patient compliance, especially, those of paediatric and geriatric categories with difficulties in swallowing, with the prime objective of arriving at cost effective product by effervescent method. Methods: In the effervescent method mixture of sodium bicarbon...

Background. Soft esophageal bolus impaction is an emergency that requires skilled endoscopic removal if persistent obstructive symptoms do not resolve spontaneously after careful observation. Expedited care of these patients is crucial to avoid respiratory and mechanical complications. Other possible options for management include medical agents used to manage it prior to performing endoscopy i...

This article deals with the "effervescent gallbladder", a rare ultrasonographic finding indicative of the presence of gas within the gallbladder. 3 cases are described and illustrated with photographs. Possible causes are reviewed and discussed.

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to design, formulate and physicochemically evaluate effervescent ranitidine hydrochloride (HCl) tablets since they are easily administered while the elderly and children sometimes have difficulties in swallowing oral dosage forms. METHODS Effervescent ranitidine HCl tablets were prepared in a dosage of 300 mg by fusion and direct compression methods. The powd...

Sodium monofluorophosphate (MFP, CAS 10163-15-2), widely used as an anti-caries agent and in the prevention or treatment of osteoporosis, is sensitive to moisture and acid. This research presents results of a study of the stability of MFP in tablets from four different pharmaceutical laboratories. With an initial water content of 2.9 to 4.0%, the pH of water solutions of three brands of non-eff...