Medicine Facts: Doctors give us medicines when we are sick. Some people break those medicines and eat them. They consider it right to eat half a pill. Maybe you do the same. But do you know whether it should be done or not. Eating half the medicine is beneficial or harmful. If not, then let us tell you in this article today, how good it is for health to eat after breaking the medicines…
Can you break the medicine and eat it
If you break any medicine and eat it, then read the instructions written on that medicine before doing so. Many times it is written on the medicine whether it can be broken and eaten or not. If it is not written in the instructions behind the medicine, then you can ask the doctor or medical shop about it. However, pills or capsules should not be eaten by accidentally breaking them. Because this can reduce the powder and dose inside it.
Which drugs should not be broken
Some tablets have the short form sr (sustain release), cr (control release) and xr (extend release) written on the back. Doctors recommend swallowing such medicines directly. This clearly means that these medicines should neither be broken nor chewed. Such tablets dissolve slowly in the body. Whose effect lasts for a long time.
Which medicines can be broken and eaten.
According to health experts, not all tablets can be broken and eaten. A line is made in the middle of some bullets. You can break those tablets and eat them. The identity of this line is that you can break it and eat it. Such tablets are called score tablets. If you want to take 500 mg medicine and 1,000 mg medicine is available in the market. If there is a streak on it, then you can break it and eat it.
Disclaimer: Before following the methods, methods and suggestions mentioned in this article, do take the advice of a doctor or a related expert.
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