ANTIMALARIAL SUSPENSIONS
Written by : Pharm. Peter Gbuchie. For a layman, A suspension is a liquid with small pieces of drug . The drug is not complete dissolved in the solution. Sometimes people get carried away by the name or the price of the drug,instead of focusing on how best the drug will be administered to achieve its therapeutic effect. When you buy any drug suspension, e.g. popular antimalarial suspensions like Lonart suspension in the pharmacy, it is important to ask your pharmacist how best to use it to benefit from the product and get value for your money. Buying a good drug and administering it wrongly can be similar to buying a fake product, if the suspension comes in a powdered form, in this case you will need to reconstitute it with purified water using the right volume of water, the product should have a mark on it where the water should be added up to, you need to add the water in parts and shake vigorously and then rinse the bottle sides to get to the required marked volume. After