Things to avoid when taking tablets

When taking tablets, if you use mineral water, milk will reduce the absorption of antibiotics.

Also avoid things after taking tablets:

- Do not read the manufacturer's instruction sheet carefully, as well as the doctor's prescription for treatment of how to take, the dose, the duration of use; In fact, this is very important because many drugs have their own specific, specific ways of drinking.

- Do not ask the doctor or pharmacist carefully, the unknown points about how to take the medicine, the dosage . listed in the application or in the instruction manual.

- Lack of checking and comparing the names of medicines, dosage and use of drugs with prescription drugs of doctors.

- Use unwashed hands to take medicine to drink. This should be avoided because it will be difficult to ensure that the drug is not contaminated and it is difficult to ensure safe hygiene of medicines.

- Lying and taking medicine: lying down is easy to take medicine in the throat, the esophagus, sometimes not down to the stomach, choking, coughing, causing throat mucosa damage. It is best to be in an upright or sitting position, until the pill is swallowed for several minutes.

- Swallow the pill, swallow it, not move with water. This is not good because most drugs have certain irritation effects with the esophageal mucosa, stomach, when taking the tablet, it is likely to stick to the esophageal mucosa, stay there and cause Harmful effects.

- Using too much water to take medicine will reduce the likelihood of stomach irritation. High water changes the acidity of the stomach and alkalinity in the intestine. The concentration of acid in the stomach will decrease, when abruptly drinking too much water affects the absorption of the drug.

When drinking a lot of water, the time when the drug is stored in the stomach is short, the drug quickly moves down to the intestine, it will affect the absorption and resolution of the drug. It is best to use about 150ml, just enough. Especially when taking the helminths, it is advisable to drink less water to ensure high levels of the drug in the food.

- Use mineral water, carbonated bottled water to take medicine because it is easy to generate adverse interactions, affecting the absorption of the drug. It is best to use cold boiled water to take medicine. It is also not advisable to use leaf water (tea, water, .) because these countries contain tannin which will cause precipitation and loss of drug effect.

Fruit juices all have acidic pH, which affects some of the less sustainable drugs in this environment such as Ampicilin, Lincomycin.

Milk also reduces the absorption of some drugs such as cyclin antibiotics (tetracyclin, doxycyclin .)

- Give the child with medicine with food, put the pill in the banana, the child will swallow the banana, the pill will enter the esophagus, down the stomach. This should be avoided because it can cause vomiting, if chewed on a bitter pill or can cause obstruction in the esophagus.

- I don't cover the baby's nose when I take medicine. Children may choke, the tablet easily enters the windpipe, causing respiratory distress. It is best to crush the tablet into powder, if it is a capsule, peel off the outer layer, mix with water, can add a little sugar to make it easier to drink, however this is also reluctant in the absence of medicine. for children.

- Slightly grasping the medicine into the mouth, at the same time swallowing many tablets of different types, such as tablets, capsules, film-coated tablets because of different shapes and weights, the movement speed of the pills is also different. each other, easy to block in the esophagus. It is best to take one pill at a time.

- Chipping or peeling, peeling off the capsule, because the cover helps to shield the unpleasant taste of the drug easily causing vomiting. The pills have a long-lasting effect, if peeling off the film, the immediate effect at the same time is the most dangerous, heart medication.

- Breaking small, including chewing, sucking, but only drinking / intact whole tablets, for enteric-coated tablets so that the medicine does not harm the stomach (Aspirin, pH8 .) and also keeps the drug free of gastric juice destructive acidity.

- Use arbitrarily long-acting tablets (must use the right tablets, the number of times a day according to the regime), because this drug contains higher doses than normal drugs, if taken incorrectly can cause dangerous overdose. Especially not chewed, broken or opened capsules, but must drink intact, whole members.

- Break the effervescent tablet or put the whole member in the mouth to drink but only drink after dissolving into enough water to completely remove the foam completely, the medicine should be preserved against moisture and intact.

- Breaking down the medicine under the tongue, it must be kept intact to put under the tongue and suck to dissolve, if broken and crushed, it will break and damage the medicine form such as sublingual sorbitrate, ergomar .

- Use adult tablets for children. It is best to use medicine for children; Liquid oral form is the most appropriate type, in the form of syrup, suspension, drip, can also be used as a powder, cereal . to mix into water before drinking. There is also a type of suppository placed in the anus.

- For the elderly to confuse themselves because it is easy to forget to drink and then drink again or forget to drink and drink.

- Taking the medicine in time is not enough, many people, when taking the medicine, find it okay to stop taking it immediately, so it is easy to relapse, especially for antibiotics, if the dose is insufficient, there is not enough time, will Create resistant strains of bacteria that make treatment difficult.

- Taking the medicine at the wrong time, there are drugs that can cause irritation to the stomach, so take it after a meal, have a medicine due to slow absorption or obstruct food, so take away from the meal.

In any case, it is best to follow the doctor's orders and treatment orders and listen to the pharmacist's instructions.

PHAN QUOC DO pharmacist