Therapeutic
Intranasal Drug DeliveryWhy you should consider intranasal drug administration as another option for delivering medications to patients:
Acute seizures,
narcotic overdose, severe hypoglycemia, procedural sedation, and acute and chronic pain control
are all complex medical problems requiring multiple approaches for
effective management. Intranasal (IN) drug delivery is emerging as a
low-tech, inexpensive and non-invasive first line method for managing
these and other medical problems.
Nasal medication delivery takes a middle path between slow onset
oral medications and invasive, highly skilled delivery of intravenous
medications. Medication deposited on the highly vascular nasal mucosa
may be rapidly absorbed into the blood stream and cerebral spinal fluid
(CSF), achieving therapeutic drug levels more quickly and predictably
than oral medications while avoiding needles. This results in therapeutic drug levels and
effective treatment of seizures, pain, anxiety, hypoglycemia, opiate
overdose, epistaxis (bloody noses), etc without the need to give a shot
or a pill. Because intra-nasal medication delivery is effective using
generic medications, it is quite inexpensive, an advantage in this era
of increasingly expensive medical technology. This web site offers
health care and consumers information about nasal drug therapy: medical research, expert testimonial opinion
and protocol suggestions. M