Blood pressure pills that are time-released have not been dissolving when taken.
2007-11-16 07:48:19 · 9 answers · asked by Missi 1 in Health ➔ Other - Health
Gretch is the closest.... if you're taking a time-release tablet that isn't dissolving in your system, though, you need to start looking at why not.
Normally, pills will digest perfectly fine with some amount being absorbed or wasted depending on how much of the contents your body needs. Now, if they aren't dissolving at all (or not enough where some of the pill is coming out in your stools), you may have an imbalance in your digestive tract. Some people that have too low of stomach acidity aren't able to digest any tablet that's not a "quick release", and most people like that have the problem because they take acid blocking drugs.
If you aren't taking any drugs, then you need to tell your doctor as there may be some other major problem more in your digestive tract that is making it so that not enough of the tablet is being digested (at least not the harder inner layer). Good luck!
Oh, and regarding rebecca b.... most tablets will not dissolve in water because they are designed NOT to dissolve in water. Most of them have a light coating on them that makes it so they don't dissolve in your mouth before you swallow the water or while it's going down your throat. Most tablets are designed to dissolve in your stomach, which is about the equivalent of battery acid.
2007-11-16 08:29:18 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Take your vitamin with a full meal, just after you finish eating. That will help keep in in the system long enough to hopefully dissolve a bit more. Most non-chewable vitamins actually do make it through people fairly well unabsorbed, usually because they are coated and it doesn't come off in time. Chewable vitamins are actually best, and a children's chewable will provide you with adequate amounts of the vitamins and minerals you need, especially if taken on a daily basis. I'm surprised your doctor didn't already suggest this as a solution. You also don't need to take a fancy name brand sort either, the store brand chewable is just fine.
2016-03-14 15:20:29 · answer #2 · answered by Diane 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They varnish them so they are slick and go down easier and sometimes that outside coating just doesn't dissolve. Many vitamin supplement just do not break down. The get deposited in the potty in the same condition they enter the body.
When they are time release, that means that some of the little particles get used first and some are slower release for later use, but you get no use it they don't break down.
See if your doctor can change your meds.
2007-11-16 07:59:24 · answer #3 · answered by Lyn B 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
time released meds are usually made out of a wax implanted with the med the pill actually is expelled whole but the med is dissolved in your system
2007-11-16 07:52:10 · answer #4 · answered by Chris E 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Pills actually digest in your body. The antiboitics, or whatever the pill is for, are digested and absored in your blood. What is not used is stored or is deposited as waste.
2007-11-16 08:09:17 · answer #5 · answered by Wolv 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Keppra disolve in water before ear ,
Can take it morning 750 / night 1000
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2015-03-09 01:51:50 · answer #6 · answered by SIU 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well its prolly cuz our body is full of water and fluids and such if u put a pill in water it does what dissolve so ya.
2007-11-16 07:55:15 · answer #7 · answered by rebecca b 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
could be the type of coating on the pill.
2007-11-16 07:51:26 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
they are not dissolving b/c they are time-released. It takes TIME for them to dissolve
2007-11-16 07:51:56 · answer #9 · answered by gretch 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋