Guest guest Posted April 8, 2000 Report Share Posted April 8, 2000 In a message dated 4/8/00 6:43:02 PM Pacific Daylight Time, Trivia.Mailer@... writes: << Today's MailBits.com Trivia Question: Question: How do time release capsules work? (answer below) ================================================================== ================================================================== The Answer: Time release capsules, invented in the 1940s, hardly compare in importance to penicillin, the greatest medical advance of that decade. Yet the capsules did represent a revolution in terms of comfort and convenience. (Or would you prefer to wake up every hour during the night to pop pills in installments?) The way the capsules work is amazingly simple. In effect, you are swallowing a group of small medicinal time bombs--close to a thousand of them in some capsules--with " fuses " set for different times. Those fuses are created by the varying thickness' of a wax-like coating over the medication which determines how soon your digestive system can get at the medicine inside each pellet. The thin-skinned ones go to work almost right away, while the ones with the heavier coatings hang around, waiting for that coating to dissolve. All you have to do is swallow the capsule. Bombs away! >> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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