Posted by Sarah T. on May 28, 2005, at 22:06:08
In reply to Re: Cymbalta capsule splitting ? » flmm, posted by Larry Hoover on May 28, 2005, at 21:17:03
> > > The potency is fine. It's if those little pellets (mini-pills, really, each individually enteric coated) get loose in your mouth, and get crunched by your teeth, you expose the drug to stomach acid. Stomach acid destroys it. The enteric coating is to get it past the stomach. An enteric coating only dissolves in basic solution (i.e. the opposite of acid), and the first place that the pellets get to that is like that is in the intestine. Getting the little pellets into your stomach *intact* is important. How you get them there is not.> Lar
Hi Larry. Thanks for this information. Is this true of pellets contained in capsules of all medicines that are in capsule form or is this specific to Cymbalta?
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