LIQUIDS DOSAGE FORM
Biphasic Liquids: An Overview
TOTAL TOPICS:-
About Liquid Dosage Form.
Types Of Liquid Dosage Form.
Monophasic Liquid And It’s Example.
Biphasic Liquid And It’s Example.
Liquid Dosage Form:-
Liquid Dosage Form Is One Kind Of Classification Of Dosage
Form On The Base Of Physical State.
Liquid Form Of A Dose Of A Drug Used As A Drug Or
Medication Intended for Administration Or Consumption.
Preparation Of Liquid Dosage Form:-
Three Methods To Prepare Liquid Dosage Form:-
1) By DISSOLVING The Active Substance In An Aqueous or
Non Aqueous.
Example:-(Alcohol, EITHER, GLYCERIN) Solvents.
2) By SUSPENDING The Drug In Appropriate medium.
3) By INCORPORATING The Drug Substance Into An Oil Or
Water Phase.
LDF’s Classification:-
LDF Is Classified Into Three two Part By Phase Of The Liquids:-
1. MONOPHASIC LIQUID.
2.BIPHASIC LIQUID.
Classification Of liquids:-
MONOPHASIC LIQUIDS:-
As The Word ‘ MONOPHASIC’ Suggest That System Contains Only One
Phase No Matter Components Might Be Minimum 2 Or More Than 2.
One Phase Is the Solvent And The Other One Is The Solute . Solute
Might Be One Or More Than One.
This Is The Most Simplest Form Of Presenting
Medication For Rapid Absorption Of The
Drug.
They Are Dispensed For Various Purposes
As shown In Section Of Previous Slide.
BIPHASIC LIQUID:-
Biphasic Liquid Dosage Form Contain 2 Phases. This Includes
Undissolved Drug And The Solvent System(Vehicle).
Undissolved Phase Is Distributed Throughout A Vehicle And Intended
For Oral Administration.
In This Preparation This phase Is Called ‘Dispersed phase’ And The
Vehicle Is called ‘Dispersed Medium’.
It’s also Called Internal Phase Or External Phase Respectively.
About Biphasic Liquid:-
The Need Of Biphasic Liquid Dosage forms Arise When The
Medicaments Are Poorly Soluble In the Solvent medium.
Medicaments From The Dispersed Phase Of The System Which Might
Be Either Solid Or Liquid.
When Solid Medicament Is Distributed in the Dispersion Medium , The
System Formed Is Called SUSPENSION.
When Liquid Medicament is Distributed in The Dispersion Medium ,
The System Formed Is Called EMULSION.
About Biphasic Liquid:-
These Two Highly unstable Systems Are made Stable By Employing
various Pharmaceutical aids Like; SUSPENDING AGENT , EMULSIFYING
AGENT.
They are Categorised As Coarse Particles ,Usually 1 To 100 Microns In
Size.
Dispersion Containing particles Of smaller
Size Are called Fine Dispersion And If The
Particles Are In the Colloidal Range
( < 1 Micron ), They are termed MAGMAS.
Types Of Biphasic Liquid:-
There Are Two Types Of Biphasic Liquid:-
1. SUSPENSION
2. EMULSION
There Are subcategories In Those Two Types Of Biphasic Liquid:-
1. SUSPENSIONS Are categorised Into
Applications, Enemas, Lotion, Inhalation, Aerosols, Eye Drop.
2. EMULSIONS Are Categorised Into
Application, Liniment, Lotion, Enemas .
SUSPENSION:-
Heterogeneous biphasic dosage form.
solid is dispersed in liquid medium.
Dispersed phase, dispersion medium.
PROPERTIES:-
1. Rapid settling.
2. Easily redisperdible.
3. pourable.
4. if parenteral flow through syringe needle.
5. if external spread easily ---Pleasing in colour , odour ,
appearance.
Physical Features of the Dispersed
Phase of a Suspension
Good pharmaceutical suspensions, the particle diameter is between 1 to 50.
Particle size reduction is generally accomplished by dry-milling prior to the
incorporation of the dispersed phase into the dispersion medium.
One of the methods of producing fine drug powders of about 10 to 50 um size
is micro pulverization.
For still finer particles, under 10 um, the process of fluid energy grinding,
sometimes referred to as jet-milling or micronizing.
Dispersion Medium:-
Suspending agents are added to the dispersion medium to lend its structure to
assist in the suspension of the dispersed phase.
Examples:
1. Carboxymethylcelulose
2.Methylcellulose
3.Microcrystalline cellulose
4.Polyvinyl pyrolidone,
5.Xanthan gum Bentonite
EMULSIONS:-
An emulsion is a dispersion in which the dispersed phase is
composed of small globules of a liquid distributed
throughout a vehicle in which it is immiscible.
Classification of emulsions:-
Based on dispersed phase Oil in Water (O/W): Oil droplets dispersed in water
Water in Oil (W/O): Water droplets dispersed in oil.
Classification of emulsions :
„Based on size of liquid droplets 0.2 –50 mm Macro emulsions (Kinetically Stable)
0.01 –0.2 mm Micro emulsions (Thermodynamically Stable).
General Types of Pharmaceutical
Emulsions:
General Types of Pharmaceutical Emulsions:
„1) Lotions
„ 2) Liniments „
3) Creams
„ 4) Ointments
„ 5) Vitamin drop
Theories of Emulsification:-
1) Surface Tension Theory: -lowering of interfacial tension.
„2) Oriented-Wedge Theory: -mono molecular layers of emulsifying agents are
curved around a droplet of the internal phase of the emulsion.
„3) Interfacial film theory: -A film of emulsifying agent prevents the contact and
coslescing of the dispersed phase.
