AboutDr. Ravindra Bhaskar Ghooi Expertise I can provide information on drugs and medicines, their actions, uses, interactions and adverse effects. To avoid confusion, generic names of
medicines may please be provided. I am a pharmacologist, having worked
on animal and human pharmacology, and presently I am the Dean of Bilcare Research Academy, where we teach courses on clinical research. We dont work on saturdays and sundays, hence questions reachng me on these days will be replied on Monday, please bear with me.
Question Why Rabeprazole is supplied as enteric coated though it has to act in Stomach?
Answer Hi Sienna,
It is true that rabeprazole acts on the stomach, but the drug does not get absorbed directly into the cells on which it acts. It first enters the blood from teh intestine and then it reaches the site of action thourhg systemic circulation. It is a common misconception that drugs applied directly to an organ will have better effect that drugs given orally. By this theory one should make an ointment of aspirin and directly apply it to the head, when you have an headache.
Ravi Ghooi
