Food selection and effect of home preparation procedure for antibiotic food mixtures on homogeneity, stability, and dissolution

Published by Elsevier B.V..

Amoxicillin, doxycycline, and clindamycin are among the commonly used antibiotics to treat bacterial infections. However, dosage forms of antibiotics for pediatric patients may not be as readily available as the formulations for adult patients. As such, it is anticipated that during a public health emergency, special instruction may need to be provided on home preparation and administration procedures to dose pediatric patients using available stockpiles of oral tablet and capsule dosage forms. Mixing crushed tablets or capsule contents with soft- or liquid- foods is one of the most common home preparation procedures. To gain knowledge for safe and effective use of prepared drug product instead of the intended intact dosage form, the impact of manipulation of the dosage form was studied. Capsule opening, capsule content assay and uniformity, dissolution, homogeneity, and stability studies of drug mixed with various liquid and soft foods were carried out using intact capsules of amoxicillin, doxycycline, and clindamycin. Higher recovery of capsule contents was achieved when using hands or knives to open capsules compared to using scissors. The capsules of all three antibiotic products contained the labeled amount of active pharmaceutical ingredients (API). The peanut butter-drug mixtures failed both United States Pharmacopeia (USP) assay and dissolution criteria because the peanut butter significantly affected the solubility of the drugs, and hence it was omitted from further study. All drug-food mixtures of the three antibiotic products and 15 selected foods exhibited fast dissolution (e.g., >80 % in 60 min) in the tested medium, except for the amoxicillin-chocolate pudding mixture. Three household containers (cups, plates, and bowls) and four mixing times (0.5 min, 1 min, 2 min, and 5 min) were found to be suitable for preparation of homogeneous mixtures of the antibiotics and foods. For practical purposes, 1 to 2 min mixing time is sufficient to produce homogeneous mixtures. The results of this study provided product quality data on the interactions between the antibiotics and the foods and can potentially support future development of home preparation instructions of antibiotics for pediatric patients or patients with swallowing difficulties.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:655

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International journal of pharmaceutics - 655(2024) vom: 25. Apr., Seite 123993

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Huang, Rong [VerfasserIn]
Zhu, Dongkai [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Jiang [VerfasserIn]
Berko, Yvonne [VerfasserIn]
Yu, Patricia A [VerfasserIn]
Parker, Corinne M [VerfasserIn]
Yu, Yon C [VerfasserIn]
Feng, Xin [VerfasserIn]
Xu, Xiaoming [VerfasserIn]
Ashraf, Muhammad [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

3U02EL437C
804826J2HU
Amoxicillin
Anti-Bacterial Agents
Antibiotics
Assay
Capsule
Capsules
Clindamycin
Dissolution
Dosage
Doxycycline
HPLC
Home preparation instruction
Homogeneity
Journal Article
Liquid-and-solid foods
N12000U13O
Pediatric patients
Public health emergency
Stability
Tablets

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Date Completed 15.04.2024

Date Revised 15.04.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.ijpharm.2024.123993

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM369745477