DISPERSIBLE TABLETS: AN OVERVIEW

Naveen Kumar*, Sonia Pahuja

Swami Vivekanand College of Pharmacy, Banur, Punjab, India

ABSTRACT

The new drug delivery system helps to achieve better patient compliance. Rapid dispersible tablets are one of these. Dispersible Tablets has benefits such as accurate dosing, easy transportability and fabrication, good physical and chemical stability and an ideal alternative for pediatric and geriatric patients. The oral route of drug administration remains the most ideal route because of its various advantages, including ease of ingestion, pain evasion, versatility and, above all, patient compliance. The tablets and capsules are the most common solid dosage forms. On the other hand, many elderly people will have struggles to take the conventional solid dosage forms (tablets and capsules), due to dysphasia. Swallowing complications are also common in children’s because of their underdeveloped mucosal system. Other groups that may have trouble swallowing a solid dosage form are the psychologically ill, the developmentally disabled, and the non-cooperative patients. In certain circumstances, such as motion sickness, the sudden episode of an allergic attack or cough and the lack of water availability, the ingestion of tablets can be difficult. To meet these medicinal requirements, the pharmaceutical scientist has devoted significant effort to the development of a new type of dosage form for oral administration, the fast dispersible/ rapid dispersible tablets, and a tablet that disintegrates and dissolves rapidly in saliva without the requirement of water.

Keywords:

Dispersible tablets, orodispersible tablets, rapid dispersible tablets