Chewable medications?!


Question:

Chewable medications?

Anyone know how I can find a list of what prescription medications are available in chewable tablets? The ones I take are not, but I'm hoping a different brand may have them. I'm looking for high blood pressure, cholesterol, diuretics, urinary incontinence, diabetes, acid reflux.

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2 weeks ago
dwp_hornblower:
What about crushing? Wouldn't that be the same? My doc wants me to crush or chew all my meds.


Answers:

You aren't going to find chewable medication in the categories mentioned. Most of those are slow release.

The medications need to be released slowly and in a controlled fashion. In other words, the stomach needs to dissolve them slowly. Chewing them completely overrides this. Therefore, there isn't even a way to make it chewable from the beginning.




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