SEC-S16 / W2 | How do you like it better? injected Or orally?💉💊" by @rossnenye

Greetings to the amazing people of this Community. It's week 2 of our season 16 Engagement contest. Most people prefer taking drugs orally to injection because the former is associated with pain while there is no pain associated with the latter.

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I myself prefer injections to taking drugs orally because injection has faster effect to taking drugs orally. Whenever I take drugs orally, it usually stuck to my throat and I usually end up vomiting.

Before I proceed, I would want to explain taking drugs orally, injection through intravenous and intramuscular injection.

Oral medication

This entails swallowing capsules, pills, tablets with water or liquid. It takes up to 1 hour for it to take effect.

Intramuscular injection

This involves injecting medication through muscular cells through the buttock, arm and thigh. This form of taking medication takes up to 40minutes to take effect.

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Intravenous injection

This involves injecting medication through the vein which enters directly into the blood stream where it begins to take effect.

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Which of these three routes of medication administration do you consider the fastest and most effective to relieve pain, why?

Intravenous injection is the fastest form of relief from discomfort or pain this is because when injected, the drug goes directly to the bloodstream where it begins to function. It takes few minutes for it to began to take effect. Orally taken medication takes 40minutes to 1 hour to be properly digested by the digestive system before it enters the blood stream where it begins to function.

Intramuscular injection when injected into the muscle takes 20 to 30 minutes to enter the blood stream where it begins to function. Some times orally taken are not swallowed properly thereby making the drugs to have little or no effect on the patient.

💊 There are two ways to administer injected treatment, intravenous and intramuscular. Which of them do you prefer in case you need quick relief or discomfort?

Like I said earlier on, Intravenous injection offers the fastest relief from pain and discomfort because when injected into the body it enters directly into the blood stream where it begins to work while intramuscular have to travel through the muscular cells before it enters the bloodstream and this stays about 40minutes to work.

💉There is a very good medicine for our body vitamin B12, why do you think they indicate it more in injection and not in pills? Do you think they do not have the same components or the same effect?

The main reason while B12 is injected into the body rather than taken orally is because of absorbance. Injection absorbs faster into the blood stream where itg works more than pills.

💊If you are one of those who do not take pills and you do not like injections, what other method are you looking for to relieve pain or discomfort!?

There are so many ways we can take medication.

• We can inhale medication through the nose.

• We can equally use accupressure, which involves applying pressure at some specific places in the body to reduce pain.

• Taking enough rest and drinking plenty water is another way of relieving pain.

Thanks for reading through my post, I invite @tripple-e, @basil20 and @akofem to participate in this contest.