It turns out that taking 22 medicines a day, only 7 are taken now. Experts remind: Do not take more

The Yangtze River Daily Da Wuhan Client June 13 (Reporter Wang Kai Ning Correspondent Xie Xuejiao) Multi -disease coexistence has caused the elderly's multiple medicines to be very common. Experts from Tongji Hospital's Comprehensive Appraisal Center for the Elderly Medical Division reminded that the elderly need to consider comprehensive consideration. More than 5 kinds.

"He only takes only 7 medicines every day, only one -third of the original amount!" Zheng Kai, chief physician of the elderly medicine department affiliated to Tongji Hospital affiliated to Huazhong University of Science and Technology, said, "According to Uncle Lin, we optimize the original drug prescriptions. The types of daily medication were reduced from 12 to 4 types, and the amount of medication was reduced from 22 to 7, which also saved medical expenses for his health. "

Uncle Lin saw consultation in Tongji Senior Medical Division.

Uncle Lin is 74 years old and has a variety of diseases such as Parkinson's disease, hypertension, and coronary heart disease. He has seen multiple specialties for a few years. There are 22 medicines in 12 medicines.

Recently, Uncle Lin had poor appetite, poor sleep, constipation, and mental state, so he came to the elderly medical department of Jiji Hospital. After the evaluation of Zheng Kai, he found that Uncle Lin had multiple medicines. After optimization of drug prescriptions, reused medicines, replaced the drugs that produced adverse reactions, and finally determined to be 7 medicines a total of 7 medicines a day.

"More than 5 kinds of drugs have multiple medications, and you need to comprehensively evaluate whether there is an excessive medication problem." Zheng Kai said, "The elderly have different abilities such as the transformation, absorption, distribution, metabolism of the drugs. 2-3 times higher than young people. For the elderly with multiple chronic diseases, if there are more than 5 daily medications, it is recommended to see if the drugs can be optimized every 3-6 months to see if the drugs can be optimized. "

It is understood that many elderly people have excessive medication, blind medication, and repeated medication problems, which is not only beneficial to health, but may even harm the body. On the one hand, the elderly suffer from a variety of chronic diseases. Multi -disease coexistence requires a variety of drugs for treatment. Specialists usually prescribe the symptomatic treatment for the purpose of treating a single disease. The phenomenon of autonomous medication is serious, it is easy to enter various medication misunderstandings, abuse tonic, use experience, and buy medicine with advertisements.

[Edit: Yu Lina]

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