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Why some medication caming with sodium, potassium and hcl and other medication without ?
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Pharmacologic basis: It is based on where the medication is metabolized and absorbed as well as whether the medication is time release or not. Some of these formulations may lengthen the time the medicine lasts or where it acts.
Answered 3/26/2014
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