Taking medicine is a seemingly ordinary thing. Many people think that if you take the medicine into your stomach, you will be all right. But in fact, taking medicine also pays attention to the correct way. Many people make mistakes in taking medicine, which not only affects the efficacy, but also endangers lives.
don’t make the seven mistakes in taking medicine.
myth 1: drinking too much
After taking medicine, many people will unconsciously gulp down water. Unexpectedly, this will affect the efficacy. Because after taking medicine, drinking a lot of water is easy to dilute gastric acid, which is not conducive to the dissolution and absorption of drugs. It is recommended to drink a glass of water when taking solid drugs.
Myth 2: dry swallowing tablets
Some people drink too much water when taking medicine, but some people do not need water to take medicine when taking medicine to save trouble, and forcibly swallow pills without knowing that they will put themselves in danger.
Because it is easy to damage the esophagus and even induce gastrointestinal diseases if you swallow tablets dry. In addition, since there is no proper amount of water to dissolve drugs, these drugs are easy to form stones in the human body and induce new diseases.
myth 3: three times a day = three meals before meals
Usually, the instructions of drugs will write the medication guide “take it three times a day before meals”, and most patients will also take it on time before meals according to the instructions. In fact, this is also wrong.
In fact, “three times a day” refers to dividing the 24 hours a day into three time periods, that is, taking medicine every 8 hours. This is summarized according to the metabolic rate of the drug in the body obtained from the test results. Only taking medicine at this time interval can effectively ensure the drug concentration in human blood and ensure the efficacy.
myth 4: multi drug use
Taking multiple drugs at the same time can easily cause drug interactions, affect drug efficacy, and even induce other diseases. Therefore, before taking medicine, you must take the initiative to consult your doctor. Do not change your dressing at will or take more than one medicine at once.
myth 5: drinking drinks and delivering services
Some people, especially children, like to use milk, juice, tea and other drinks to deliver drugs. In fact, this practice will affect the efficacy and even endanger health. It is recommended to take the medicine with boiled water.
In addition, it is worth noting that some drugs will exert their efficacy more effectively if they are not taken with boiled water. For example, Huoxiang Zhengqi tablets are served with hot ginger soup, Liuwei Dihuang pills are served with light saline, and Chinese patent medicines for regulating the spleen and stomach are served with hot rice porridge.
myth 6: take the syrup at the mouth of the bottle syrup
For convenience, many people drink syrup with the mouth of the bottle. First, this practice is easy to pollute the drug solution and accelerate the deterioration of the drug; Second, this can not accurately control the dose and it is difficult to give full play to the best efficacy.
myth 7: exercise immediately after taking medicine
Just like eating, you can’t exercise immediately after taking medicine. Because after taking medicine, the dissolution and absorption of drugs need enough blood to participate in the circulation reaction, and it takes 30-60 minutes to exert its efficacy. If you exercise immediately after taking medicine, it will seriously affect the circulation of gastrointestinal and other organs and affect the efficacy.
In addition to the above seven mistakes in taking medicine, in fact, people around us always remind us to take medicine with hot water, which is also wrong. Because some drugs will react after encountering heat, which will affect the efficacy.
these three drugs cannot be taken with hot water.
1 cough syrup
Cough syrup needs drugs to cover the inflamed pharynx, so as to form a protective film on the mucosal surface, so as to alleviate mucosal inflammation and control cough symptoms. If there is hot water to take syrup, it will reduce the viscosity of syrup and affect the efficacy.
2 vitamins
Because the structure of vitamins, especially vitamin C, is unstable, it is easy to be reduced, destroyed and lose its efficacy after encountering heat.
3 heat clearing Chinese patent medicine
In traditional Chinese medicine, it is necessary to take heat clearing preparations to treat fever, excessive heat and other dry and hot diseases. This kind of heat clearing Chinese patent medicine cannot be taken with hot water, otherwise it will affect the efficacy of the medicine.
Whether the efficacy is good or not has a lot to do with whether the way of taking medicine is correct. Mastering the correct way of taking medicine can not only increase the efficacy and reduce side effects. Therefore, before taking the medicine, you must read the instructions carefully or take it according to the doctor’s advice.
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