Sublingual medication administration

Sublingual Medication Administration. Because sublingual medication is administered in the mouth patients with open mouth sores may experience pain or irritation. It is generally recommended that sublingual medications should not be used for prolonged periods of time. Sublingual administration delivers a medication across mucous membranes in the mouth either under the tongue or inside the cheek. Eating drinking and smoking can all interfere with absorption and dosage rates.

Sublingual administration in which a tablet or troche is allowed to dissolve completely in the oral cavity takes advantage of the permeability of the oral epithelium and is the preferred route for a few potent lipophilic drugs such as nitroglycerin and oxytocin and even the commonly used oral sedative triazolam. The medications dissolve rapidly and are absorbed through the mucous membranes of the mouth where they enter into the bloodstream. Sublingual administration delivers a medication across mucous membranes in the mouth either under the tongue or inside the cheek. Sublingual preparations are placed and retained beneath the tongue where it dissolves and is absorbed into the circulation through the tissue there. Because the oral mucosa has a thin epithelium and abundant blood vessels many medications administered here are rapidly absorbed. This simply means that the medication is inside the liquid that comes out of the spray bottle.

This simply means that the medication is inside the liquid that comes out of the spray bottle.

One reason for selecting the. Sublingual preparations are placed and retained beneath the tongue where it dissolves and is absorbed into the circulation through the tissue there. Sublingual and buccal medications are administered by placing them in the mouth either under the tongue sublingual or between the gum and the cheek buccal. It can be a strange way to take a medication and you may be confused about what to do with the spray. One reason for selecting the. Eating drinking and smoking can all interfere with absorption and dosage rates.