![]() ![]() However, I can't think of a way where you could crush up the tablets in a fine enough manner to put in a liquid without compromising the beads and in a way that makes that advantageous over splitting the tablets and taking them by mouth. Now, the drug-containing pellets in metoprolol ER tablets are designed to dissolve over a 24-hour or so period so, I suppose, technically, you could put the tablets in a liquid to be administered immediately so there wasn't a long enough time frame for the pellets to dissolve. Getting back to your question, if you dissolve the tablets in liquid, this will also ruin the extended-releases properties of the drug since you will be destroying the pellets that are designed to dissolve slowly over time to release the drug. After a tablet is taken by mouth, the pellets dissolve slowly, which releases the drug over time. The tablets essentially contain many tiny pellets, each containing the active ingredient (metoprolol succinate). The below image shows how these tablets are formulated. Additionally, there isn't really a way you could dissolve metoprolol ER tablets in a liquid without the release mechanism being compromised either. Metoprolol ER (metoprolol succinate) is an extended-release form of metoprolol, and while the tablets can be split in half (one of the few extended-release drugs where this is okay to do), they cannot be crushed or chewed since that will destroy the extended-release properties of the drug. Hello and thanks so much for your question! ![]()
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