How to take medicine correctly

As the statistics show, only 20% of people more or less strictly follow the doctor's prescriptions for taking medications, 60% - forget what and when to take, and 20% (!) - in general

do not necessarily refer to the doctor's recommendations. In this regard - the effect of treatment tends to zero, and sometimes such levity leads to a lethal outcome.

The main rule in the treatment is to take medications prescribed by a doctor. Do not under any circumstances be treated with medications that your aunt Luda's aunt "prescribed" to you, because she

they really helped. The doctor selects medicines taking into account your age, sex, physiological characteristics, propensities to allergies, etc. With self-treatment you risk

to face big problems.

Surprisingly enough, what we drink medicine has a direct relationship to a successful recovery and vice versa. It's all about the chemical interaction of the product and

medicines. An unsuitable liquid for swabbing the tablet can form compounds that are not digested by the body and insoluble substances. Consequence - the strongest

allergy, poisoning, failure of some organs.

For example, tell a story where the victim of illiterate medicine was an assistant to the President of America George Bush (elder) - Antonio Benedi, who treated the usual

cold with paracetamol, with alcohol. Four days later, this explosive mixture caused complete liver failure. As a result, I had to do an urgent operation to transplant the organ. And this is all because the person did not know how to take the medicine correctly.

Drug Interactions with Tea and Coffee

Tea contains many useful elements, it has an antioxidant (anti-cancer) property, increases immunity, lowers cholesterol and cleanses the blood

vessels. But! As soon as you drink the medicine with tea, insoluble compounds form in the body and the process of assimilation of the medication slows down.
For example, when drinking tea, oral contraceptives lose their properties, and antidepressants lead to overexcitation.

You can not wash down with tea neurological drugs, antibiotics, cardiovascular drugs, alkaloids, drugs to activate the process of digestion and treatment of stomach ulcers, and

also nitrogen containing agents (euphyllin, caffeine, amidopyrine).

Coffee, in turn, very quickly removes antibiotics from the body, while the effect of the drug can be generally unpredictable. When you wash down painkillers

coffee drink (aspirin, citramone, paracetamol), the liver can suffer greatly. Soothing preparations are also not combined with coffee.

Drug Interactions with Juices

Contained in fruit juice juices, destroy the structure of medications and change their pharmacological effect.

Juice can not drink medicine that reduces the acidity of the stomach, sulfonamides (sulfalene, streptocide), cardiac glycosides and drugs to lower the pressure

Juices slow the action of antibiotics, prevent the absorption of amidopyrine, and the effect of aspirin is increased so that poisoning is possible.

Avocados and cranberries, for example, are dangerous when combined with warfarin (this drug reduces blood coagulation, it is prescribed for varicose veins).

Grapefruit juice

Separate line should be noted grapefruit juice. The list of drugs incompatible with it is very large. This and histamine drugs against allergies, antibiotics, cardiac,

antiviral and antitussive drugs, hormonal medications and drugs for the treatment of hypertension.

Interaction of drugs with milk

Milk in the ancient times, people saved people from poisoning. This suggests that it reduces the effect of many drugs. This is especially true for antibiotics.

Absolutely not combined with dairy products are antibiotics of the tetracycline series. When the milk and tetracycline interact, the effectiveness of the drug drops to 80%. AT

ration with such treatment should be present only sour-milk products.

Do not drink milk with drugs with acid-resistant shell, such as pancreatin (milk contributes to premature dissolution of the shell, and therefore the drug

will collapse without the result).

Also, milk reduces the acidity of gastric juice and prevents the absorption of enzymes to improve digestion.

Interaction of drugs with alcohol

Alcoholic beverages are not combined with any medications at all. Categorically! At the time of treatment, you should forget about your favorite cognac, wine for dinner or a daily beer. By the way,

The taking of medication is also undesirable during the hangover syndrome.

Food and Drugs

A special place is occupied by antidepressants. They are not "friends" with a large number of products that are in the daily routine diet - dairy products, beef, cheeses, fish. AT

If these products are simultaneously taken with the medicine, a hypertensive crisis or an increase in the depressive state may occur.

Healing and popular infusion of St. John's wort reduces to zero the intake of hormonal drugs.

After receiving cardiac medicines you can not eat fatty foods In one hour.

How to take medicine correctly

Drink medicines with boiled water at room temperature (approximately 150 ml) in a standing or sitting position. Water is a chemically neutral substance, so no unwanted

reactions and unpredictable consequences during treatment can not be.

Carefully study the instructions of the medication and follow it exactly. Check with your doctor for the correct dosage and regimen of the medication: before, after, or during meals.

If you buy non-prescription medicine in a pharmacy, loudly and clearly tell the pharmacist all the data you need: age, gender, condition (eg, pregnancy, asthma, diabetes,

propensity to allergy to certain drugs, the driver behind the wheel, etc.). Ask how to take the medicine.

If you need to be treated simultaneously with several drugs, then take them not all at once all together, and with a break of 10 minutes.

Do not refuse treatment halfway. In this regard, the strongest complications and the transition of the disease into a chronic category are possible. In the future, more treatment is needed

potent drugs.

If the medicine needs to be drunk before meals, take it 30-40 minutes before eating, sometimes the instructions can be indicated and 15 minutes. But no less, otherwise the medicine is not

will have time to act properly. During meals, gastric drugs and medications that promote digestion of food are usually taken. After eating, taking medication should not be

earlier than two hours later.

Regardless of food, they take bronchodilators, antibiotics, agents for improving cerebral circulation, as well as anti-diarrhea drugs.

If you are prescribed to take medicine on an empty stomach, this means that you you need to accept it before 10 am. Thus, the drug is absorbed and absorbed much better and

faster.

If in the mode of taking the medication is indicated "three times a day", you You need to drink this medicine every 8 hours. The meaning of this method is that the body must be supported

a certain level of drug concentration.

Sleeping pills should be taken 30 minutes before bedtime.

If suddenly in the instructions for the medicine there is no data on his taking, drink it 30 minutes before eating.

Be attentive to your health and the health of your loved ones! Take care of yourself!