Medicine Baby Quiz | Can effervescent tablets be swallowed dry?

Medicine Baby Analysis

Effervescent tablets contain not only drugs, but also disintegrants, such as sodium bicarbonate and sodium carbonate. Disintegrants react with water to produce carbon dioxide gas, which is why effervescent tablets bubble a lot when they are washed with water. If effervescent tablets are taken directly without being washed with water, a large amount of carbon dioxide gas will be produced in the gastrointestinal tract, oral cavity, and respiratory tract, which may cause gastrointestinal discomfort at the mildest, or hypoxia and suffocation at the worst, especially in infants and elderly and frail patients.

The correct way to take oral effervescent tablets is: take more than 150-200 milliliters (mL) of half a cup of cold boiled water or warm boiled water, do not use hot water or boiling water, put all the tablets for one time into the cup, wait until the bubbles disappear completely and the medicine is completely melted, shake it well, and then take it.