15/11/2017
Drug’s feelings and emotions - part 1
Understanding the effect of pH on a drug.
Remember, drugs have emotions exactly like humans. To prove this, I will begin with human feelings when they meet strangers or in a place where they have no idea why they are in this situation. If you have encountered this in real life, you feel worried, anxious, out of your depth, thinking people are observing you, talking or laughing about you if you ask or move your body parts, so you can hardly do any movement or word. You are charged (ionised) because of the unfriendly environment around you. Similarly drugs.. when you swallow a weak acidic drug and it travelled in dark GIT without clue what will face it and find itself in basic pH of the intestine, surely it will feel uncomfortable (ionised) and unable to move freely on the cell membrane. But this acidic drug in the stomach ( acidic pH), he finds environment as he is with friends.. he jokes, laughs, runs, jumps .. everything around him is friendly therefore he is very comfortable (non ionised) and pass freely through cell membrane.
Be with friends .. nonionised, lipophylic
Be with strangers.. ionised and hydrophilic
Hope you never forget drug feelings.