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What is enteric coating?

Earlier I asked what drugs are covered to make them easier to swallow: the answer was only sugar. So back to my own resources, I found that the pills are not sugar coated. I also found that they are enteric coated. I looked at the enteric coating and found that means they are coated so that digests the pill in the intestines not the stomach, and the reason is that to allow the medicine to be better absorbed into the bloodstream without being degraded by stomach acids (which can cause heartburn, for example) and the sugar is definitely broken in the stomach. I found nothing to suggest easier to swallow, even if an enteric coated aspirin (for example) is easier to swallow than aspirin uncoated, and nothing on what this stuff really is. Do you know?

Not all pills are enteric coated some are absorbed through the lining of the stomach and others, such as enteric coated aspirin, are absorbed in the intestine. Most coatings are a gelatin-based coating or sugar coating. Enteric coatings are made from: A non-toxic edible enteric coating film dry powder composition for making an aqueous suspension of enteric coating that can be used in coating tablets pharmaceutical and similar products includes a polymer film forming enteric, a release agent, a viscosity modifier, and alkalinization / anti-coagulant. Preferably, the compositions of the invention of dry powder may include a solid plasticizer, a lubricant, an anti-caking agent, a liquid plasticizer, and pigment.

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