To solve this problem, the South Australia University (Unisa) team has created an injection drug that works for a long time. This drug includes two main medicines of Parkinson’s, Levodopa and Carbidopa. This medicine affects the whole week.
Research published in the magazine drug delivery and translation research said that this medicine is special, it is called biodegradable. This medicine is applied as injection. This medicine slowly affects the body for seven days.
Sanjay Garg, Professor of Unisa’s Pharmaceutical Innovation Center, has said that this new injection drug can improve the results of treatment. This will also make it easier for patients to take medicine. Also, the disease will help in curing.
He further said, “Levodopa is the most effective drug in Parkinson’s, but its effect ends quickly, so it has to be taken several times a day. But this injection is like a gel, in which two special substances, the first PLGA, which dissolves in the body slowly, and the second is the eudragit L-100, which works at the pH and leaves the drug at the right time.
Garg said, “This drug is given as an injection with a thin 22-gauge needle. This does not cause much trouble for the patient and does not require any surgery. He said that this technique can also be used not only for Parkinson, but can also use other long diseases like cancer, diabetes, mental diseases, pain and long-lasting infections.
