REVIEW

Tablets, capsules and

suppositories
Solutions and mixtures

• Classification of capsules
• Advantages of capsules
• Classification of tablets
• Tablets with local effects in mouth
• Tablets that are applied locally in mouth but have systemic
effect
• What is the difference between vaginal tablets and vagitories?
• What is the mass of one suppository for adults/ chlildren?
• Suppositories have local AND/OR systemic effect?
• What is the most commonly used vehicle for suppositories?
• The amount of active substances tablets is expressed
as_________ in ___________
•  What is the amount of water in one teaspoon, and one table spoon?
•  Solution contain drugs with large OR narrow therapeutic width
•  Liquid preparations are delivered in _________________
•  Bottle in latin ____________
•  Types of mixtures
•  What should be the part of Signatura when prescribing suspensions
for topical use?
•  What is remedium corrigens in liquid preparations?
•  What are emulsions?
•  The amount of active substances in solution for external use is
expressed as_________ in ___________
Formula for licensed drugs
• Prescribe two original packages of nimesulid (Nimulid ®)
tablets , STD 100mg, to treat osteoarthritis in adult patient.
• Dosing: 3x100 mg per day.
Officinal formula - dispension method
•  Prescribe 10 tablets of methyldopa (lat. gen.
Methyldopi tablettarum) 250 mg for treatment of
arterial hypertension for pregnant woman. Use
officinal formula. Dosage: 2 tablets per day
•  10 (latin decem)
 Magistral formula
Kalii iodidum is expectorant (a medicine which promotes the
secretion of sputum, used to treat coughs);
STD = 0.3 g ). 3g/15mLàit means that STD is contained in 1 tablespoon
Prescribe 20 doses by FM, as water solution for oral use.
Order to be used 3 times/day, by tablespoon.