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The brand name Flagyl, which is non-generic Metronidazole, does offer an enteric coated option. Since I have used this medication more than on one occasion to treat giardiasis, I understand the severity of nausea that normally accompanies it's use as a side effect. While not entirely mitigating these symptoms, the enteric version does reduce them to a more tolerable level and make it more likely that patients will take their medication on time and to completion. For giardiasis, the enteric version of Flagyl should be the default prescription.
enteric coated
Go to Physician Naturals. They offer enteric coated Curcumin, along with Bioperine (black pepper) and Bromelain to help absorption. Seems to be the gold standard.
Aspirin Enteric Coated
An enteric coated tablet has a shell that prevents it from dissolving in the stomach. If chewed the shell will be broken and the medicine will encounter the stomach wall. Enteric coatings seek to prevent this because some medicines are harmful to the stomach but not to the small intestine where they are digested.
Medicines with an enteric coating are safe for sensitive stomachs because the coating prevents heartburn or stomach ache. For a patient with an ulcer, coated aspirin would be the safest kind to take.
enteric coated and modified release products are unsuitable.
My doc gave me those tablets when i had a stomach upset.
While an enteric aspirin can be crushed it is not recommended. Enteric coated aspirin is usually time release. Crushing time release aspirin can cause one to overdose as the aspirin is released into the system all at once.
Because this would make the enteric coating coating useless and may upset the users stomach. An enteric coated tablet has a material that allows the tablet to pass through the stomach to the small intestine before the medication is released reducing the chance of stomach problems. Hope this helps. ~J
It is available as an enteric coated tablet, which does not break down until it reaches the intestine.