Capsule That Will Treat Several Diseases For Months In One Dose

Imagine for a moment that, thanks to just one capsule, you could treat cholesterol, high blood pressure, anemia or reddening of the hands for fifteen days straight.

It looks amazing. Even more if we think about the small pharmaceutical complexity involved in organizing treatments for those patients with chronic diseases who are forced to take several pills a day.

Imagine that with a single administration you could treat several diseases in a short time.  Hopeful, isn’t it?

Two prestigious centers that collaborated in this same project were: Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston (USA) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge (USA).

At first,  the scientists’ objective was different: to offer a new treatment for malaria.

They were looking for a way to administer the drug in a single dose and open the doors to new possibilities in the field of medicine and in the treatment of chronic diseases.

We will explain below.

A “multipurpose” capsule

All those people who suffer chronic diseases, such as arthrosis, know that  for the drug to take effect, it is necessary to take “that pill” determined daily.

If you forget one or take it every other day, the effect fails and does not produce what is known as “adherence” to the treatment.

This problem is common, for example, in the elderly. If there are no other people to organize their drugs and offer them the dose every day, it is possible that they will forget.

With this type of everyday reality that everyone knows, we understand, without a doubt, the advance that is this technique that we are now going to detail.

a pill that transforms

The present work was published in the journal of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Those responsible for the research, led by Dr. C. Giovanni Traverso, were looking, as we have already pointed out, for a new way of treating malaria.

• This disease, so present in several third world countries, requires several doses for the effect to be adequate. Something like this generates an economic expense and enormous difficulties in relation to management.
• Scientists have succeeded. They developed a “multipurpose” capsule that, once in the stomach, becomes almost a small robot.
• It increases in size so as not to leave the stomach and not reach the small intestine.
• In this way, it does not interfere with the absorption of nutrients or the elimination of waste products.

Namely, the pylorus is the valve that separates the stomach from the intestine. Measures two centimeters.

This capsule, when reaching the stomach, expands by 4 centimeters; it takes on a star shape and stays there as long as possible (later degrades on its own and disappears).

This pill contains ivermectin. It is actually a type of antiparasitic; that together with different polymers,  it makes the drugs to release slowly.

a great future ahead

This ivermectin pill will treat both malaria and a wide range of tropical diseases;  including all those that can develop from mosquito bites.

Those responsible for the study indicate that once the patient ingests the capsule; you will receive all these treatments over 15 days.

In short, the goal is to achieve the 3 months.

Seeing such positive results achieved in the essential objective of this research (treating malaria), they will also begin to combine other types of drugs to respond to the most common chronic diseases (cholesterol, hypertension, chronic pain).

• In this way, pharmaceutical spending would be reduced  (we hope that this data is not a problem for the companies themselves).
• In addition, patients would receive their treatments more effectively without having to rely on daily intakes.
• And finally, we would achieve a new medical focus for the treatment of infections, and even psychiatric problems.

We hope to see these advances in a short time. We will be waiting.