Development of solid paediatric oral dosage forms

The paediatric population includes a category of patients with dynamic changes (due to the continuous body growth). Therefore their treatment requires individualized drug dosing (according to body weight) and the availability of different dosage forms for the same treatment due to different ability of paediatric patients to handle liquid (too much for older children and adolescents) or solid dosage forms (so hard and too big to be swallowed by infants and small children). Mostly, liquid and solid dosage forms are necessary to satisfy the needs for all age-range of paediatrics. However, on the market, there is a lack of appropriate dosage forms for paediatric patients