Many remedies now come as dissolving tablets - but do they work? - Daily Mail
From vitamins to painkillers, many everyday remedies now come as dissolving tablets – but do they work? Two pharmacists assess some of the latest products to find out By Caroline Jones For The Daily Mail Published: 22:01 GMT, 4 October 2021 | Updated: 15:22 GMT, 5 October 2021 Not long ago, the only effervescent tablet you would find in a medicine cabinet was Alka-Seltzer, first created in the 1930s. But there are now all sorts of treatments that 'fizz' — they generate carbon dioxide gas when mixed with water, helping them to dissolve faster 'so the drug becomes available more quickly when you swallow it than it would if you took a tablet that then had to dissolve in the stomach', as Sultan Dajani, a pharmacist based in Hampshire, explains. The format also allows you to fit in larger doses of active ingredients than in a conventional-sized tablet, adds ...