Drug – bio-affecting and body treating compositions – Preparations characterized by special physical form – Food or edible as carrier for pharmaceutical
Reexamination Certificate
2000-03-13
2001-08-21
Page, Thurman K. (Department: 1615)
Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions
Preparations characterized by special physical form
Food or edible as carrier for pharmaceutical
C424S451000, C424S464000, C424S489000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06277395
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a swallowing-assistive drink for medicines, more particularly, to a swallowing-assistive drink which facilitates or helps swallowing medicines without difficulty and without giving foreign body sensation to patients, infants and aged persons who have difficulty when taking medicines in swallowing them with ordinary drinking water because of accompanying some pain (such as a bitter taste) owing to various diseases, infirmity or even in healthy people.
2. Description of the Prior Art
Medicines for internal use are generally taken orally with water or tea. However, patients, especially aged persons or the like are difficult to swallow such medicines with water or tea. They sometimes could not swallow well to be choked or left the medicine in their mouth when taking medicines in dosage forms of powders, granules, tablets or the like. Therefore, a sufficient therapeutic effect was not obtained, and further the patient had discomfort.
Although crashing tablets or mixing medicines into food such as boiled rice, miso soup or juice has thus been conducted when taking medicines, this is time-consuming and troublesome. Moreover, this procedure of crashing tablets sometimes resulted in not giving an expected therapeutic effect because the releasing-time of ingredients of medicine could not be controlled and masking of taste could not be performed and so on.
In order to cope with these problems, small tablets, jelly and decomposable tablets are designed as to dosage forms. Further for foods, additive powder for liquid foods which thicken the liquid foods (miso soup or the like) to make them to be swallowed easily is on the market.
However, there were problems that design only on dosage form as mentioned above can not lead sufficient effect and that the swallowing-improving agents for medicines have not yet been developed although there are some for liquid foods.
BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Objects of the Invention
The present invention has been conducted considering these problems of prior arts. An object of the present invention is to provide a swallowing-assistive drink for medicines that improves swallowing various medicines, being convenient and substitutable for ordinary water, moreover, not disturbing the efficacy of medicines, and a swallowing method.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The present inventors made various studies on a drink that facilitates swallowing medicines orally taken in order to solve the problems described above, formed that the above problems could be solved by mixing a specific adhesive paste with water and accomplished the present invention.
In the words, a swallowing-assistive drink of the present invention is an assistive- drink to facilitate swallowing medicines characterized in that it contains water and an adhesive paste to make viscous liquid or gelatinoid.
In addition, a swallowing method of the present invention is characterized by taking medicines together with the swallowing-assistive drink as mentioned above.
Operation
The swallowing-assistive drink of the present invention has an appropriate jelly strength or viscosity.
Accordingly, patients who have difficulty in swallowing medicines because of infirmity or various diseases besides healthy people can easily swallow various medicines by use of the present inventive swallowing-assistive drink without affecting the efficacy of the medicines.
Further, the swallowing-assistive drink of the present invention also has a function of enwrapping various kinds of medicines. Therefore, in those who have declined contractive strength of the muscle around the throat or stricture of the esophagus owing to the muscle strain, the feeling of the foreign substance can be reduced, leading to swallowing without choking, by use of the swallowing-assistive drink.
Specifically, owing to this enwrapping-function, highly water-soluble powder is enwrapped securely and hardly eluted at room temperature; as for solid formulations, the number of the medicine at a dose can be increased.
Further, such enwrapping-function makes medicine-masking possible. For example, the present swallowing-assistive drink functions as a bitter-taste mask, being convenient for infants or the like to take medicines.
Furthermore, in spite of having the enwrapping-function described above, the present swallowing-assistive drink neither affects on disintegration or dissolution of medicines nor causes interaction with medicines because a major ingredient of the drink is water; therefore, it does not disturb therapeutic effects of various medicines.
Moreover, the present swallowing-assistive drink is a low-calorie and non-sugar drink not affecting insulin metabolism; so that it can be also used safely in diabetic patients and it hardly causes caries even when using just before bedtime.
In addition, since the present swallowing-assistive drink is a simple drink containing water and an adhesive paste as essential components with excellent stability, it is easy to carry it if it is filled in a small container or the like, being convenient when patients go out.
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Fukui Atsuko
Kamijima Takashi
Nakajima Masanori
Ohta Mika
Di Nola-Baron Liliana
Garred Mark B.
Page Thurman K.
Ryukakusan Co. Ltd.
Stetina Brunda Garred & Brucker
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