2007-02-02 05:15:24 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Skin Conditions
Transdermal patches, as they are called, are a new idea for the delivery of medicine, which is based on the principal that though all people digest/react internally with a wide range of potential responses and difficulties, everyones skin absorbs external applications more or less the same.
2007-02-02 05:20:27 · answer #1 · answered by porhtronranie2 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The patches are made of special, porous membranes that deliver the medication inside at a constant, slow rate. Some for 24 hours and some 3 days and longer. Every company that makes a patch (whether birth control, nicotine, Duragesic pain patches) has a specially formulated medication that is only used with that specific patch delivery system. In other words, you can't break open the patches and just suck out the medication. It would make you deathly ill from a life-threatening overdose. Only use as prescribed.
2007-02-02 13:30:29 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The mediciation is absorbed through the skin and enters the blood stream.
2007-02-02 13:18:10 · answer #3 · answered by tosha38401 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i agree with tosha3840...
2007-02-02 13:22:00 · answer #4 · answered by sammy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋