According to google, the maximum dosage of ibuprofen is 3200mg divided into 3 or 4 equal dosages (that’s 800mg every 6 hours). For reference, that is less than the weight of a paperclip. So what makes pills so strong that it’s extrmeley dangerous for a stomach that can literally devour steel to consume more than a paperclip weight of ibuprofen every 6 hours?
And that’s only ibuprofen, i’ve taken others meds which were WAY lower at 80mg max dosage and another one 10mg!
Note: didn’t know what to put as flair since it’s technically medicine or biochem (neither are available) so i chose biology since i’m focusing on an organ
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Your stomach and small intestine has a protective layer of mucus (mucine) around It. It is made by gastric / small intestine cells to keep them protected against the acid from the stomach
When you take ibuprofen, It enters your gastric cells and inhibits the mucine secretion, thus making your stomach cells sensitive to the acid. And as You said, stomach acid is really strong.
This applys to pills called NSAID (non steroid antiinflammatory drugs)
Different pills have different mechanism. Eg: some antibiotics make the stomach slow so It causes nausea and/or bloating
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