Medication Bottle Case Study

• What is the meaning of sustained release on medication bottle?

This means that the medicine has several layers of coating that vary on each individual pellet inside the capsule. This way when you take the medicine the effect of the drug will be absorbed over a period of time instead of just one. By doing this the action of the drug is released into the bloodstream over an extended amount of time.
• She used to have a cream but now has an ointment. What is the difference?

The biggest difference is that creams are water based and ointments are oil based. That means when you use a cream it spread easily, covers a much larger area and soaks into the skin, while ointments are greasier and have a thicker consistency and stay on top of the skin longer. To use an example, think of Pond’s Cold Cream and Zinc Oxide, of course, you know that Pond’s is easy to massage on your face to get make-up off and that zinc oxide basically goes on a diaper rash area and stays where you put it. Hence the difference between the two.
• Explain the purposes, advantages, and disadvantages of the different routes of drug administration
Other routes of administration are inhalation, topical and nasal. The advantages of the ORAL route is by far the most convenient for storage, portability, and premeasured dose. It also is economical, non-invasive, often safer route plus requires to specialized training. Looking at the disadvantages can be incomplete dosing. This type is highly dependent on patient compliance, have to consider drug-drug and drug-food interaction, also the drug is exposed to first-pass