What is the half life of Alustra?

Answer 1

Topical steroids are the mainstay of the pharmacological treatment of hand eczema. Alustra is a sustained release and hence the half life is dependant on many factors.

Occam's razor is the principle named after William of Occam, a 14th century philosopher. The generalization states that, if there are a number of explanations for observed phenomena, the simplest explanation is preferred. Called also scientific parsimony.

To put it simply, if it takes 30 day's to become active then the half life would be 15 BUT this is a very difficult question to answer as it actually is not like uranium, which has a half life of 2000 years, it is a synthetic blend chemical and not on any Periodic Table, hence the question itself is more relating to the symptamatic and biological break down process, not the half life as asked.

To explain further, a half life is thus; 1Kg of Uranium left in one place for suspended state for 2000 years, when when revisited would be half of it's original volume, hence as the atomic property's are so unstable and decay at such a rapid rate (2000 years is a very short half life for an element), this makes the element suitable for "chain reaction" breakdown processing.

Laboratory synthesis of a chemical such as Lustra or Alustra are not element's and hence the term 'half life' does not apply. The duration of the chemical effect is something that a pharmacist could answer better would at this point be welcome!