liquid vs solid medicine?

Question

how does the liquid and solid differ in the effect of ur body?

Answer 1

When a person takes a tablet or a capsule, the dose is standard. Unless the medication comes in several different strengths, like thyroxin, altering the dose is clumsy. Even with a pill cutter, cutting it in half rarely results in perfectly equal pieces. Taking a quarter of a pill is even more inaccurate.

A similar problem exists with liquid medication. A kitchen teaspoon is not calibrated to the standard 5 ml. Calibrated spoons or droppers are more accurate. But will a toddler take the entire dosage without spitting some of it out? If the medicine is a suspension, was it shaken well before administration? If not the first doses will be too dilute and the final doses will be too strong.

Apart from these issues is the rapidity of absorption. Some capsules are timed release, so that all the medication does not go into your system at once, but is released gradually. This is more difficult to do with liquid preparations, although some progress is being made.

Answer 2

Liquid medicines are more readily absorbed, because they're already liquid or solutions. Solid medications have to dissolve, which takes some time.

Answer 3

there are a lot of differences, how it is processed, the concentration and the chemistry of manufactoring it. solid medicines can come in a variety of absorption rates, as where liquid medicines do not (that i knoow of). liquid medicine is said to be the fastest versus solid in absorption and relieving your ailment. hope this helps...it sounded good to me...

Answer 4

they should be the same, except that solid medicine might take longer to get absorbed because they have to dissolve first.