Some background : I was in the hospital recently for a couple of days and was able to talk and walk.. however, the doctors prescribed injections and IV canulisation over asking me to pop antibiotics and anti gastric medication. Is there a specific reason for hospitals to prefer it or is it just a matter of convenience?
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Your stomach is effectively a furnace for your body, it’s basically breaking down anything that gets consumed with acids and then a nutrient sludge is effectively sent down your gut where that sludge can pass closely with your blood to be absorbed.
A pill has to go through that entire process to be absorbed to some extent, and it needs to survive enough so that the contents can make it into your gut where you’ll start to pick-up the compounds of the medication.
An IV? Straight to the blood-stream, it’s far more precise and can provide an effect almost immediately.
A single blood-cell can travel throughout your entire body in about 45 seconds, a pill is exponentially slower.
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