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

Hello healthy friends!!!

Welcome to another great week of exploits in the community. A time to share our healthy publication in the community and I do wish it shows a clear representation of our ideology therein.

^Freepik

Drug administration has continued to revolutionize given the technological advancement we've seen over time. However, intravenous, intramuscular, and oral drug administration has remained a pattern used over time. What we've seen is an improvement in these patterns.

I have to acknowledge these three routes of drug administration. Different schools of thought would want to give their opinion depending on the urgency of needs before them. Emergency is mostly considered if we are to talk about their speed in bringing relief to us.

We cannot have an emergency at hand where bleeding, internal bleeding, or other sensitive symptoms are observed and we are talking considering oral medication. Intravenous followed by intramuscular routes are considered fastest and faster as the case may be.

Ceteris Paribus (Everything being under control), oral administration is usually a softer way to this approach given its less complex approach where the patient only needs a cup of water to get it walking without assistance.

Intravenous routes of drug administration are the fastest if properly and efficiently handled. Since drugs are transmitted into the body through the veins, it makes it a lot faster to get to all parts of the body within seconds. But we should also know that not all drugs are administered through veins, the oral or intramuscular route completes the cycle.

^Freepik

One thing we must know is the difference between these two methods. While one goes directly through the veins, the other goes through the muscles. A situation where we see patients being injected in their bum or laps. However, not all medication is known to pass through a particular route.

While some are best intravenous, the other through the intramuscular or oral route. They all complement the deficiency we see in each other.

For quicker relief, the intravenous seems to work faster but one thing has always hampered its efficiency or speed in administration which is vein tracing. Patients are first of all subjected to this before administering medication.

This is unlike the intramuscular that is plug and play. Also the injection is ready, it enters the body, is dispensed, and comes out with little or no time. For a combined speed when compared to both, intramuscular is quicker.

However, when the cannula has been set before then, the intravenous method of drug administration is a lot better than every other method both in handling and speed in bringing relief.

Vitamin B12 is an essential vitamin requirement of the body and it is of importance we know that Cyanocobalamin plays a vital role in the entire body's metabolism, especially for people who are deficient in it or have cases of cyanide poisoning. People with also high levels of homocysteine in the blood are encouraged to be administered.

Other diseases unknown that the injection of vitamin B12 could help resolve are issues of cataracts, Alzheimer's disease, osteoporosis, and fatigue.

Vitamin B12 as we know is best injected due to it being rapidly absorbed through these routes. In less than an hour, it has already got to the needed ends. Ends like the bone marrow, liver, placenta, etc. These routes (intravenous and intramuscular) provide 100℅ of the vitamin B12 that was administered. Excesses are excreted or removed through urine. So, there's nothing to worry.

But this is the same for oral ingestion of this vitamin family. When taken orally, there is a tendency not to get the full dosage of the administered drug before it gets to the needed ends as listed earlier. The absorption of it is hampered at different levels in the stomach. Where we have the intrinsic factors and terminal ileum, absorption of this vitamin is impaired.

^Freepik

Unfortunately, I am one of those who make the Oral medication route his first point of contact before proceeding to the intravenous or intramuscular routes. These routes are the most used drug administering routes available to most of our drugs.

However, there are other types of drug-administering routes, and they include;

• Subcutaneous routes which entail that drugs are placed beneath the skin and allow for absorption.

• Rectal Route: This involves inserting drugs in the rectum where they are easily absorbed.

• Transdermal Route: a patch is given on the skin and drugs are administered through this patch.

Thank you, Friends.

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