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They help the person digest fats, starches, and proteins. [5] Pancreatic enzymes have been used as medications since at least the 1800s. [7] They are on the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines. [8] In 2022, it was the 253rd most commonly prescribed medication in the United States, with more than 1 million prescriptions. [9] [10]
Gastroparesis is a fancy way of describing slow gastric emptying, which means food sits in the stomach longer before being digested. Greasy, high-fat foods are linked to slowing down the digestion ...
Alpha-glucosidase inhibitors (AGIs) are oral anti-diabetic drugs used for diabetes mellitus type 2 that work by preventing the digestion of carbohydrates (such as starch and table sugar). They are found in raw plants/herbs such as cinnamon and bacteria (containing the inhibitor acarbose ).
Seirogan (Japanese: 正露丸, formerly 征露丸) is a pharmaceutical drug marketed in Japan as a treatment for the digestive tract (especially as an antidiarrhoeal), whose main active ingredient is "wood creosote" (also wood-tar creosote, or beechwood creosote [1]).
Buccal administration may provide better bioavailability of some drugs and a more rapid onset of action compared to oral administration because the medication does not pass through the digestive system and thereby avoids first pass metabolism. [1] Drug forms for buccal administration include tablets and thin films.
The first ODT form of a drug to get approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was a Zydis ODT formation of Claritin in December 1996. [19] It was followed by a Zydis ODT formulation of Klonopin ( clonazepam ) in December 1997, [ 20 ] and a Zydis ODT formulation of Maxalt ( rizatriptan ) in June 1998. [ 21 ]
Orlistat was initially approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in April 1999 as a prescription-only medication. [40] On 23 January 2006, an FDA advisory panel voted 11 to 3 to recommend the approval of an OTC formulation of orlistat, to be sold under the brand name Alli by GlaxoSmithKline . [ 41 ]
Rather than track points (the traditional WW program uses a point system to help you track food and encourage healthy choices), the GLP-1 plan had me strive for certain target amounts of protein ...