Research Progress on Oral Sustained and Controlled Release Pediatric Formulations

Oral sustained and controlled release formulations can reduce the dose frequency, improve patients' compliance, reduce the incidence of adverse reactions and can also match some specific needs for children at a certain age, which is developed into a hot research area now. After reviewing the development of oral sustained and controlled release formulations at home and abroad and collecting the available varieties of oral sustained and controlled release formulations for children, this article elaborate and summarize development of oral sustained and controlled release formulations so as to provide some advice for the development and application of medicine for children in China.