FORMULATION AND EVALUATION OF MOUTH DISSOLVING TABLETS OF RANITIDINE HYDROCHLORIDE

In present research work, taste masked Mouth Dissolving Tablets (MDTs) of Ranitidine Hydrochloride were designed with a view to enhance the patient compliance and provide a quick onset of action. Taste masking of the drug was done by formation of complex with β cyclodextrin. Tablets were prepared by direct compression, using superdisintegrants like crosscarmellose sodium and crosspovidone in different proportion and evaluated for the pre-compression parameters such as bulk density, compressibility, angle of repose etc. In view of the better taste palatability of such a bitter API, taste masking was carried out via making the cyclodextrin complex and sucralose was used as the sweetener to impart a palatable taste to the formulation. The prepared batches of tablets were evaluated for hardness, weight variation, friability, drug content, disintegration time and in vitro dissolution profile and found satisfactory. Among all, the formulation F7 containing 5% w/w proportion of both crosscarmellose sodium and crosspovidone was considered to be best formulation, which disintegrated completely in 19 seconds and released up to 98.38% of the drug.