Medicine antacids

Use Medicine (antacid), tooth powders, calcimine, polishing powders, silicate cements. 

Use Industrial odor absorbent, decolorizing agent, antioxidant, medicine (antacid). 

Use Baking powders, soft drinks, medicine (antacid), manufacture of pure potassium carbonate, fireextinguishing agent, low-pH liquid detergents, laboratory reagent, food additive. 

Ion exchangers are sometimes used on a throwaway basis also. In the laboratoiy, ion exchangers are used to produce deionized water, purify reagents, and prepare inorganic sols. In medicine, they are used as antacid, for sodium reduction, for the sustained release of drugs, in skin-care preparations, and in toxin removal. 

Magnesium-containing compounds are often common everyday medicines. What makes milk of magnesia an effective antacid ... 

The alkaline nature of the saturated Mg(OH)2 solution provides the antacid capabilities of this over-the-counter medicine. 

Treatment of barium peroxide, Ba02 with a concentrated solution of magnesium sulfate yields magnesium peroxide Mg02, a white powdery material used as a bleaching and oxidizing agent, and as an antacid in medicine. 

Potassium bicarbonate is used in baking powder and effervescent salts. In medicine, the salt is a gastric antacid and an electrolyte replenisher. It also is dry powder in fire extinguishers. 

Uydrate of potassa is a most valuable agent to the chemist, and especially in the estimation of the carbon of organic bodies. It is also used to displace metallic oxides from their combinations, ae a solvent for oxides or zino and alumina, also for the decomposition of silicioua minerals by fusion, for drying certain gases, and a variety of ether purposes. In surgery, it is used in the solid stata, cost into sticks, as a most powerful caustie. In medicine, its solution is also frequently employed, especially os an antacid. 

Phonological Effects.—In the solid stata its local action is remarkably energetic, rapidly destroying the tissue with which it comes in coutact. When dissolved it is also powerfully corrosive, and consequently an energetic poison in lai ge doses. It excites no constitutional action, except what depends on the local injury it occasions. In medicinal doses it possesses antacid and antilithic properties, and is administared in some hitter infusion. 

Milk of magnesia, which can be taken as an antacid medicine, is a base. The chemical name for milk of magnesia is magnesium hydroxide (Mg(OH)2). Magnesium hydroxide can ease the discomfort caused by too much stomach acid. Potassium hydroxide (KOH) and sodium hydroxide (NaOH) are also bases. These chemicals, sometimes called lye, and are used in making soap. Sodium hydroxide is also an ingredient of oven and drain cleaners. Bases feel slippery and have a bitter taste. 

Oxytetracycline is licensed to be taken four times a day, but can be taken twice a day for the treatment of acne (two 250 mg tablets twice a day). These oxytetracycline tablets should be taken 1 hour before or 2 hours after meals, followed by a glass of water. They should NOT be taken at the same time as milk, food or antacids, as they can make the medicine less effective. Tablets should be swallowed when either sitting or standing and they should not be taken immediately before going to bed. The complete course of prescribed tablets should be completed. 

Inhibition of enteral coumarin absorption by adsorbents, e.g., antacids, medicinal charcoal Inhibition of hepatic coumarin metabolism, e.g., by cimetidine, metronidazole ... 

Tablet disintegration also is important for those tablets containing medicinal agents (such as antacids and antidiarrheals) that are not intended to be absorbed but rather to act locally within the GI tract. In these instances, tablet disintegration provides drug particles with an increased surface area for localized activity within the GI tract.

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