if active ingredients make up a tiny portion of each pill, why are some pills so large?

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Just swallowed 2 Nyquil and they were unpleasantly large to swallow. Got me wondering.

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There are a few things at play. First, you don’t want the pill to be so small that it doesn’t have marking identifiers or is difficult to handle. The second is that most pills are a slow release of some kind. The materials in the pill are required to slow the raye at which your body absorbs the drug so it lasts longer.

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