LOZENGES: A MEDICINAL CANDY
Ruchi Singh*, Dr. Afroze Alam, Dr. Rashmi Kumari, Dr. V. P. Dubey, Vinod Tiwari, B. D. Tripathi
ABSTRACT
Lozenges are usually small flavored medicated material. These are the solid dosage forms which contain medicament and are widely used all over the world. These are designed to be held in mouth. They are basically designed to increase the retention time of the dosage form for increasing bioavailability. It has several benefits like it may reduces gastric irritation and also by passes first pass metabolism. Lozenges can be used for local as well as systemic therapy. There are wide range of active ingredients may be incorporated in lozenges. Now a days these are still in high commercial production. There are various types
of lozenges available in the market. Lozenges have disadvantages too but these are very beneficial in day to day life. This review covers applications, advantages and more or less all aspects which are associated with lozenges.
Keywords: Lozenges, antitussive, sucrose.
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