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Topical Drug Administration Overview

This document discusses different types of topical drug administration. It defines topical medication as those applied directly to body surfaces like the skin or mucous membranes, including creams, foams, gels, lotions and ointments. It then provides more details on specific topical forms like creams, gels, transdermal patches, and powders. Creams are oil-water emulsions that penetrate the outer skin well. Gels are thicker than solutions and often contain alcohol which can be drying. Transdermal patches precisely control drug release over time but cutting them could affect the dose. Powders can be inhaled or used topically, mixed with carriers like cornstarch.

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Topical Drug Administration Overview

This document discusses different types of topical drug administration. It defines topical medication as those applied directly to body surfaces like the skin or mucous membranes, including creams, foams, gels, lotions and ointments. It then provides more details on specific topical forms like creams, gels, transdermal patches, and powders. Creams are oil-water emulsions that penetrate the outer skin well. Gels are thicker than solutions and often contain alcohol which can be drying. Transdermal patches precisely control drug release over time but cutting them could affect the dose. Powders can be inhaled or used topically, mixed with carriers like cornstarch.

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  • Topical Administration
  • Introduction
  • Definition
  • Cream
  • Gel
  • Transdermal Patch
  • Powder

TOPICAL

ADMINISTRATION
INTRODUCTION

• Drug may be administered by different routes like topical systemic inhalational ,oral and rectal
.A single drug or dosage form can be used by different routes of administration.
• For example solutions can be used as parent or intraocular Indira cell and for rectal purpose the
proper choice of dosage form and route of administration is governed by the type of drug action
required for a particular treatment. The route of administration determines the onset duration
intensity and degree of localisation of drug action.
• The selection of appropriate route of administration determine the onset duration intensity and
degree of localisation of drug action the selection of appropriate route of administration
depends on the drug as well as patient factors
DEFINITION

• A topical medication is a medication that is applied to body surfaces such as the skin or
mucous membranes to treat ailments via a large range of classes including but not limited
to to creams foams gels lotions and ointment,
• A topical medication is a medication that is applied to a particular place on or in the body.
Most often topical administration means application to body surfaces such as the skin or
mucous membranes to treat ailments via a large range of classes including creams, foams,
gels, lotions, and ointments.
• Many topical medications are epicutaneous meaning that they are applied directly to the
skin. Topical medications may also be inhalational such as asthma medication or applied
to the surface of tissues other than the skin such as eye drops applied to the conjunctiva or
ear drops placed in the ear or medications are applied to the surface of a tooth
• As a route of administration topical medications are contrasted with enteral and
intravascular.
CREAM

• A cream is an emulsion of oil and water in approximately equal proportions .It penetrates
the stratum corneum outer layer of skin well .Cream is thicker than lotion and maintains
its shape when removed from its container. It tends to be moderate in most rising
tendency for topical steroid products only in watery motions are common.
GEL

• Gels are thicker than solution .Gels are often a semi-solid emulsion in an alcohol base
Some will melt at body temperature tends to be cellulose cut with alcohol or acetone.
Gels tend to be drying
• Gels tend to give greatly variable ingredients between generic brands and trade names
just carry a significant risk of producing hypersensitivity due to fragment fragrances and
preservatives gel is useful for the scalp man body falls in a playing well one should about
futures and options during the drying and stitching effect of the alcohol base .
TRANSDERMAL PATCH

• Transdermal patches can be a very precise time released method of delivering a


[Link] a patch in half might affect the dose delivered
• The release of the active component from a transdermal delivery system may be
controlled by diffusion through the adhesive which covers the whole patch by diffusion
through a membrane which may only have adhesive on the patch rim or drug release may
be controlled by a release from a polymer matrix. Cutting a patch might cause rapid
dehydration of the base of the medicine and affect the rate of diffusion
POWDER

• Powder is either the drug by itself or is made of a drug mixed in a carrier such as
cornstarch or corn cob powder can be used as an inhaled topical .(cocaine powder used in
nasal surgery)

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