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is it possible to say that in a healthy person who drinks a lot of water that tramadol would be detected in the urine for only 2-4 days following a single 300 mg dose if they were to specifically screen for it?
Dear Kevin
Tramadol can be detected up to five days after administration in persons who metabolise it slowly, three days in most people. Drinking lots of water will not affect this at all. Since it is not commonly abused, therefore is mainly used for clinical pain relief I doubt that many persons are interseted in urine levels anyway.
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Dr Alan Galbraith
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Dr Alan Galbraith
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I can answer most questions on most drugs. Answers can be given in either technical or layperson terminology. My main areas of interest are psychiatric, gastrointestinal and cardiovascular drugs.
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I have been a university lecturer/head of department for almost thirty years, but am now retired. My research interests were alcohol, smoking and cardiovascular disease.
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Institute of Biology, London.
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Author of "Fundamentals of Pharmacology" 5th Edition published in November 2007 by Pearson Education, Australia.
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BSc(Hons);MSc;PhD;MIBiol; Cert Biol; HECert
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