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How Long Does Morphine Remain In The Body?
Question: how long does it take to get to 30 milligram morphine pills out of your system?
Brief Answer:
99.98 percent of the morphine will be out of your system in 2 days
Detailed Answer:
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Morphine oral has a half life of around 4 hours.
Keeping this in mind, after 7 half lives the amount of medicine in your system will be less than 1 percent.
Therefore after 28 hours you can expect less than 1 percent of the morphine to be in your system.
Like wise after 2 days only 0.02 percent will be in your system. In other words, 99.98 percent of the morphine will be out of your system in 2 days.
Hope your query is answered.
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99.98 percent of the morphine will be out of your system in 2 days
Detailed Answer:
Hi,
Thanks for writing in to us.
Morphine oral has a half life of around 4 hours.
Keeping this in mind, after 7 half lives the amount of medicine in your system will be less than 1 percent.
Therefore after 28 hours you can expect less than 1 percent of the morphine to be in your system.
Like wise after 2 days only 0.02 percent will be in your system. In other words, 99.98 percent of the morphine will be out of your system in 2 days.
Hope your query is answered.
Please do write back if you have any doubts.
Regards,
Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar
what do you mean half life?
Brief Answer:
It is the time duration after which half the medicine will be eliminated
Detailed Answer:
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Thanks for writing back with an update.
Every medicine which we consume has a time duration after which the concentration becomes half of the original amount. This is a term used to denote the time after which half the medicine will be cleared off by the system.
Therefore after about 7 half lives or the amount of medicine in the system will be 0.02 percent which is extremely low.
Regards,
It is the time duration after which half the medicine will be eliminated
Detailed Answer:
Hi,
Thanks for writing back with an update.
Every medicine which we consume has a time duration after which the concentration becomes half of the original amount. This is a term used to denote the time after which half the medicine will be cleared off by the system.
Therefore after about 7 half lives or the amount of medicine in the system will be 0.02 percent which is extremely low.
Regards,
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Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Prasad
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