The potentially harmful excipients in prescribed medications in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in Kosovo and available safer alternatives

Abstract

Pharmaceutical excipients are important chemical constituents of medications to overcome challenges such as solubility, stability and bioavailability of the active pharmaceutical ingredient (API). They also play a critical role in formulating, assuring the quality and patient acceptability of the medicine. [1][2][3][4] The strategy for the selection of excipients is a complicated task in pediatric medicine development. It requires various considerations such as acceptable taste, age, dosage forms, among others to be accounted for in order to select safe excipients. 5 Concerns