摘要 |
A solid dosage unit tablet or pill which is stable at high relative humidities and capable of disintegrating rapidly in the presence of moisture comprises an active ingredient, conventional tableting excipients and/or lubricants, and as a disintegrating agent from about 0.3 to about 3 percent by weight of an alkali metal salt of carboxymethylcellulose having a degree of polymerization between about 100 and about 2000, and a degree of substitution between 0.02 and 0.17 at polymerization degree 100, and between 0.02 and 0.57 at polymerization degree 2000. |