Patent ID: 6423341
Filing Date: 2002-07-23
Classification: A61K,A61P,Y10S

Abstract:
A pharmaceutical tablet which can be swallowed whole or rapidly disintegrated in water, comprising at least 300 mg potency and from 60% to 85% by weight of a &bgr;-lactam antibiotic, a sweetener, 1 to 10% by weight of hydroxypropylcellulose having a degree of substitution with 2-hydroxypropoxy groups of not higher than 25% and/or crosslinked polyvinylpyrrolidone as a disintegrator and 0.8 to 2% by weight of a binder per tablet, wherein said tablet is made with a granulation product prepared from the &bgr;-lactam antibiotic disintegrator, binder and an alcohol selected from the group consisting of ethanol, isopropyl alcohol and aqueous solutions thereof.