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Balsalazide

What the body turns Balsalazide into, as its Wikipedia article records it.

Quoted from Wikipedia, not yet written up by hand. Its infobox gives no timings, so this shows only what the article text says it turns into.

BalsalazidetakenMesalazinemetabolite

The clock, on a log scale

Each bar runs from the dose to about five half-lives, roughly when 97% of that molecule has been converted or cleared. The scale is logarithmic so minutes and days fit on one line.

  1. doseabsorbed

    Bioavailability

    <1% 1

  2. hoursfrom the article text

    What else it turns into

    “Balsalazide is a prodrug of mesalazine, also known as 5-aminosalicylic acid, or 5-ASA.” 2

  3. half-lifehalf gone

    Elimination half-life

    12hr 1

Sources

  1. Wikipedia, Balsalazide, drug infobox (revision 1329243555), CC BY-SA 4.0. Values quoted as they appear, with wiki markup removed.
  2. Wikipedia, Balsalazide, article text (revision 1329243555), CC BY-SA 4.0. Sentences quoted as they appear.

Half-lives vary between people, doses and routes. This page explains what the body does with a drug. It is not dosing advice.