Do Not Split the Pills Before You Drink

Do you know what happens if you split the pill before you drink it?

This practice pharmacists not recommend, but advised that the pills should not break.

Whether they are chronic patients who take daily therapy, or only occasionally drink some medicine, many people take half a pill, to thereby halving the dose taken.

Filmed pills are coated with the ground, usually to prevent the dissolution of the drug effect in the stomach, as well as to protect the stomach lining from the corrosive substances from the drug, and therefore is not recommended that the pill fractures.

By breaking some medications amended pharmacological formulations are not shared properly dose, and in some, a multi-layer coated drugs, with a complicated way of release of drug, changing the complete effect of a medicine, with unpredictable effects.

If the filmed pill crush, disappears protective effect of the drug layer to the stomach lining.

Some drugs can be broken, and that usually those who already have a printed line, although the existence of the line is not a sure sign that this pill may divide in half.

The best is to share only those drugs is clearly indicated in the instructions for the drug, or if patients get such advice from a doctor or pharmacist.