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Q: What are the different routes of drug administration, and how do they affect drug bioavailability?
A medication administration route is often classified by the location at which the drug is applied, such as oral or intravenous. The choice of routes in which the medications are applied depends not only on convenience but also on the drug's properties and pharmacokinetics*.
These are the various common routes of drug administration
Each patient is thoroughly studied and the route of drug administration is decided based on patient’s condition, the drug potency and bioavailability values by the medical team.
Also other medicines taken by the patient also interact and impact the outcome (1).
When a person 's prescribed several different medications at once in order to treat one or multiple health conditions—the phenomenon is known as polypharmacy.
When people take several medicines ... they can (1) ...
1. Interact with one another
2. produce over dose of a drug because too much of one drug remains in your system because of the interactions
2. reduce or increase the potency of one another if they act in opposite or similar ways
3. nullify one another's potency if one drug can’t be absorbed or metabolized properly
4. produce other toxic and harmful products after reacting with one another inside human bodies
5. interfere with the patient's normal metabolic processes
6. cause damage to body organs
7. cause several other severe health conditions as a result of the above processes
-and this one is a positive one-
8. successfully suppress an existing health condition and help us find a new cure for diseases that don't have medicines yet!
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Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
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Apr 26