Chewable Tablets

The patients who have difficulty in swallowing tablets whole or for children who have not yet learnt to swallow a tablet, chewable tablet serves as an attractive alternative. The added advantage of this medication is that it can be taken at any time or when water is not available. Mannitol is normally used as a base due to low hygroscopy and more importantly, it gives pleasant, cooling sensation. Antacid tablets are invariably prepared as chewable to obtain quick ingestion relief as well as the antacid dose is too large to swallow and the activity is related to particle size. Another example is multivitamin tablet which a patient can take as a daily dose.
These are the tablets which are requires to be broken and chewed in between the teeth before ingestion. These tablets are given to the children who have difficulty in swallowing and to the adults who dislike swallowing. A number of antacid tablets and multivitamins tablets are prepared as chewable tablets. These tablets do not require any disintegrating agent. In chewable tablets Mannitol is used as sweetening agents, it masks the bitter taste of the tablet. It is more 70% sweet than the sucrose. In the tablet it acts as a excipients.