Formulation of New Chewable Oral Dosage Forms of Meclizine and Pyridoxine Hydrochloride

Wafa M Al-Madhagi; Arwa Alshargabi; Abdulkarim K Y Alzomor; Olla Sharhan

doi:10.1155/2023/5512379

Formulation of New Chewable Oral Dosage Forms of Meclizine and Pyridoxine Hydrochloride

Adv Pharmacol Pharm Sci. 2023 Jul 29:2023:5512379. doi: 10.1155/2023/5512379. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Wafa M Al-Madhagi^{1

2}, Arwa Alshargabi³, Abdulkarim K Y Alzomor^{2

4}, Olla Sharhan⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Sana'a University, Sana'a, Yemen.
² Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Al Nasser University, Sana'a, Yemen.
³ Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Saba University, Sana'a, Yemen.
⁴ Department of Pharmacy, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Thamar, Yemen.

Abstract

Nausea and vomiting are symptoms associated with a lot of diseases and oral tablets may be unprofitable for patients especially those suffering from nausea and vomiting. Therefore, this study aimed to formulate a new meclizine and pyridoxine combination formula for chewable tablets and provide rapid drug absorption and decrease motion sickness. The new chewable formulation has been prepared to provide fast action, is more acceptable, and could be used for all age categories. Seven trials haves been carried out to prepare to find the suitable one where formula 7 of the chewable gum preparation exhibited good taste and hardness, while the gelatin formulation give an accepted formula after four trials with better taste and good acceptance. The prepared formulations give a dissolution profile of meclizine (95.53-102.8%) and pyridoxine (99.25 ± 115%) and assay (98 + 0.05-99.3 ± 0.8%) for meclizine and (97 ± 0.9-100.0 ± 0.08%) for the pyridoxine in three prepared formulations of chewable tablets. Followed by the evaluation, the formulation and testing them on human volunteers are carried out to confirm their effect to ensure acceptance and fast actions. The finding is promising for preparing a new route of administration of meclizine and pyridoxine combination to be used in the market.