With the same expected effect, such as fighting pain, do drugs taken in effervescent form act faster? The explanations of a pharmacist.
Since the spring, the shortage of paracetamol tablets on the shelves of pharmacies has caused a resurgence in purchases of effervescent drugs. For the same expected effects, are these as effective? “The effectiveness is the same, reassures Jean-Marie Guillermin pharmacist in Toulouse and vice-president of the order of pharmacists of Occitanie. And effervescent drugs work even faster once morest pain, with regarding a good quarter of an hour in advance. This is explained quite simply because they are already dissolved when they go down the digestive tract and arrive in the stomach. This difference is true regardless of the expected effect of the drug: pain, headaches, improved digestion, etc.
Not for hypertensives
Be careful, however, to promote their effervescence, these drugs contain sodium bicarbonate, fairly high in doses, it is therefore not recommended for people who suffer from hypertension to take it regularly.
Everything else is then a matter of context and each form has advantages and disadvantages, summarizes the pharmacist. For example, it will be easier to administer an effervescent tablet to a child, rather than a tablet to swallow. Similarly a sublingual tablet which dissolves quickly in contact with saliva, acts quickly once morest pain, and does not require water; but its taste sometimes bothers some people, especially children.
Travel tips
Finally, in the first aid kit, in the event of a trip – on an adventure, or abroad – the medicines to be swallowed remain more practical to use because of their packaging. In a blister pack, they are perfectly resistant to humidity and do not deteriorate. Conversely, sparkling wines require a greater quantity of water (not always available); and their stability and storage conditions inside the tube are less good.