Journal
PHARMACEUTICS
Volume 13, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/pharmaceutics13030387
Keywords
excipients; paediatrics; security; toxicology; STEP and ODT
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- Generalitat de Catalunya [CVE-DOGC-A-19269057-2019]
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This theoretical study critically reviews the use of excipients in paediatric medicine, emphasizing the importance of safety checks and toxicity studies. It identifies common excipients used in pediatric formulations and explores the orally disintegrating tablets, ODT, as a promising pharmaceutical form for children.
This theoretical study seeks to critically review the use of excipients in the paediatric population. This study is based on the rules and recommendations of European and American drug regulatory agencies. On the one hand, this review describes the most frequent excipients used in paediatric medicine formulations, identifying the compounds that scientific literature has marked as potentially harmful regarding the side effects generated after exposure. On the other hand, this review also highlights the importance of carrying out safety -checks on the excipients, which, in most cases, are linked to toxicity studies. An excipient in the compilation of paediatric population databases is expected to target safety and toxicity, as in the STEP database. Finally, a promising pharmaceutical form for child population, ODT (Orally Disintegrating Tablets), will be studied.
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