How does a suppository work?!


Question: How does a suppository work.?
How can you take a pill up your butt.? Does it travel up your butt stream.?Health Question & Answer


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Haven't you seen the South Park when Cartman eats stuff up his butt.?Health Question & Answer

Many different medications can be given in suppository form. The lining of the rectum is very rich in blood supply, and as the wax capsule carrying the drug dissolves, it is absorbed across the membrane directly into the bloodstream.

This is advantageous for a few reasons. One, it works much faster than taking a drug orally. Second, drugs that go through the stomach will be altered a bit by the digestive process, and also metabolized to some degree by the liver. For this reason, the does by rectal suppository is often lower.

They have huge advantages especially for little kids who are sick with fever and vomiting, as both Tylenol and Gravol can be given by rectal suppository.

This isn't alternative medicine, so much as an alternative route for medicine. Orally, rectally, dissolving under the tongue, injected into a vein, muscle or under the skin are all different ways of getting therapeutic medications into people.Health Question & Answer

A suppository is also called a Glycerine suppository, which is a hyperosmotic laxative. It pulls water from the intestines into the stool. This stimulates the normal forward movement of intestines (peristalsis), usually resulting in a bowel movement within 15 minutes to an hour. These are normally used to treat constipation. You can buy it over the counter, without a prescription. Health Question & Answer

Suppositories are used because they absorb into your system alot faster. They don't have to go through the digestion process. No it doesn't travel up your anus. The muscles in your lower intestine are strong and keep the suppository in place. I've never had one but I've seen it done on infants. Health Question & Answer

there is a special membrane in your anus Just like in your stomach and your mouth and when that certain thing passes over it it is absorbed. that's why when you drink beer through your butt you get SO wasted(seriously)Health Question & Answer

The general principle is that the suppository is inserted as a solid, and will dissolve inside the body to deliver the medicine.

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