FORMULATION AND STABILITY OF HEPTAMINOL SUPPOSITORIES PART III: Chemical Stability of Heptaminol Suppositories

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Department of Pharmaceutics, Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt

Abstract

The chemical stability of Heptaminol base in four different suppository bases was investigated in absence and presence of several stabilizers. The stability was found decreasing in the order of: Glycerogelatin, Cacao-Butter, Witepsol-E-75, and then Polyethylene-Glycols. Butylated hydroxyanisol (BHA) was the best stabilizer in the two fatty-based formulae, while tocopherol succinate was the worst. In the water-soluble bases, sodium thiosulphate was the best stabilizer, while the mixture of sodium formaldehyde sulfoxylate (SFS) with sodium edentate was the worst.