alert!Take medicine like this is "taking poison"

Many people now prepare some commonly used medicines at home, especially the elderly. There are many basic diseases and do not like to go to the hospital. They often take medicine at home. However, it should be noted that there are many misunderstandings in family medicines. It may not only be unable to relieve the pain, but it may also cause serious consequences.

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Common misunderstandings 1: Medicine selection by feeling

It is a common misunderstanding of home medication by feeling that choosing medicines.

Some elderly people hold the mentality of "long disease and do medicine", and feel that they know their own body and have their own views and judgments. To judge the condition and take medicine without authorization.

The survey found that a considerable number of elderly patients had the situation of feeling. For example, the elderly suddenly felt abdominal pain at home. When they did not know the cause, they were used as a criminal of stomach disease. They used analgesic or gastric medicine to deal with it, but this may cover some acute abdominal or cardiovascular problems Caused the condition, and may even cause serious consequences.

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Common misunderstandings 2: Dinoca use of drugs, I don’t know

Many drugs often have a variety of effects. Some drugs have the same effect, except that the shape or manufacturer is different, or the main corresponding symptoms are different, or the applicable population is different. For example, acetaminophen has tablets and water agents, tablets are suitable for adults, and water agents are suitable for infants and young children.

In addition, different drugs may contain the same component. Take acetaminol, for example, many cold medicines include, such as Tyno (phenolinin tablets), Kuangcoc (compoundinopide capsule capsules), sensor (compound aminopolyine tablet tablets), White and Black ( Anthenzine), Baijienin [Pseudolyrine pseudo -pseudo -sliced ​​tablets (Japanese tablets)/ammonia Mimo Mins Ⅱ (Night Tablets)] and Sanli Pain (compound acetylphenol tablet) and so on.

Some elderly patients think that the more types of drugs they take, the faster the condition will be. They simply wanted to treat the disease as "fighting", as if the medicine he was taken was the soldiers sent out, and it was more good.

However, many elderly people cannot distinguish whether various drugs contain the same ingredients. If you just add medicine blindly, it is likely to bring other damage to the body because of too much ingredients in the medicine you take. For example, excessive intake of acetamine can cause liver function damage.

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Common misunderstandings 3: superstition health medicine and advertising drugs

Many elderly people now pay attention to health programs, or related information and advertisements. However, because of those over -propaganda, some elderly patients have listened to and beloved advertising drugs. They believe that the latest and most expensive drugs are the best drugs for cure.

As a result, these excessive drugs will not only affect the treatment of the disease, but also cause waste of resources.

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Common misunderstandings 4: abuse of antibiotics

Some elderly patients use antibiotics at will regardless of whether the body temperature meets the standard of medication; or the body temperature is just exceeded 37 ° C, and antibiotics are used at will without knowing whether it is bacterial infection or virus infection.

Studies have shown that blindly using antibiotics to treat inflammation caused by non -bacterial infections not only cannot treat diseases, but also cause bacterial resistance, and even super bacteria. Effective.

Not only that, the abuse of antibiotics is also damaged to the human body. Drugs need to go through a series of metabolic processes before reaching the lesion to increase many metabolic products. These metabolites are harmful to the liver, kidney and other organs.

Therefore, the use of antibiotics should be cautious, and it is best to use it reasonably under the guidance of a doctor.

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Common misunderstandings 5: Drugs change frequency or sudden stop drugs

As the saying goes, the illness comes like a mountain, and the illness goes like a shredded. It takes a certain amount of time to take effect in any kind of drug, not to be done overnight. Everyone knows the truth, but sometimes it is eager to change the medicine frequently and frequently.

Some patients even took the medicine for a day or two, and felt that they would not change the medicine without permission, or they did not follow the doctor's instructions to increase the medicine without authorization.

In addition, many elderly people often do not take medicine as soon as they return to normal after fever. As everyone knows, the germs in the body are not completely cleaned, and the condition may occur after the drug.

At present, with the increasingly convenient to buy medicines and communities offline, the safety of the elderly's medication is gradually highlighting. As a family, we must pay more attention to the safety of medication for the elderly, supervise and urge the elderly's medication to avoid greater harm due to errors for medication.

Source: Science and Technology of Science and Chinese Medical Association

Edit: Wu Hao

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