Contents:
- Medical Video: What Does Heroin Do To Your Body?
- After taking medication, how long will the drug be absorbed?
- How are drugs absorbed by the body?
Medical Video: What Does Heroin Do To Your Body?
When you are sick, whether it's a mild illness or not, of course you will be given a medicine from your doctor to relieve the symptoms you are experiencing. But actually when you take medicine, when is the drug absorbed by the body then works to handle the pain that you experience? What affects the absorption of drugs in the body?
After taking medication, how long will the drug be absorbed?
The drug has its own method of action to respond to disorders that occur in the body. in addition, recommendations for taking different medications will also affect the effectiveness of the work on the pain you are suffering from. Normally, after you take the medicine, the drug will go directly into the vein for about 30 minutes to 6 hours, depending on the type of medication. The following are things that affect the speed of a drug absorbed by the body, namely:
- The nature of solubility, drugs of the type of solution or liquid are easier and faster absorbed compared to tablet drugs.
- How to administer the drug, not only taken, but the drug can enter the body in various ways such as injected directly through a blood vessel, inserted through the anus, or by inhaled.
- The body's ability to empty the stomach.
Giving inhaled medication - as is done when the patient is given anesthesia - is the way that makes the drug absorbed most quickly by the body. This is due to the type of drug that easily enters the body. While the administration of drugs by drinking is the slowest way in the process of absorption of the drug, because the drug must be processed and digested first and must go through a fairly long digestive process.
How are drugs absorbed by the body?
Shortly after you take the medicine, the drug will be absorbed directly by the body in different ways. Here are the types of drug absorption:
- Passive diffusion, drugs absorbed in this way do not require energy in the absorption process. So that the body's cells do not need to try to produce energy so that the drug can be absorbed. Aspirin is an example of a drug that is absorbed this way. Apart from because it does not require energy in the process of absorption, aspirin also gets into the body's system faster because it is acidic. So that when it is in the stomach and meets stomach acid, the drug will immediately react and be absorbed.
- Active transport, in contrast to passive diffusion that does not require energy, the process of absorption of drugs in this way requires energy. The types of substances absorbed through this method are ions, vitamins, sugars, and amino acids. The absorption process occurs in the small intestine.
- Pinocytosis, very few drugs are absorbed into the body's system in this way. The pinocytosis process also requires energy and can only be done if the drug is liquid.
