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Do Not Lose Sight Of Six Medication Errors -1

Post Time: 2009-07-03 Large middle Small
Medication is an issue as important as drug side effects to be concerned. Medication in wrong manner, at wrong time, with wrong food will not play any efficacy, or even lead to dangers.
First Error: take drugs with three meals
"Three times a day" is determined drug researchers in accordance with the data of experiment testing the drug metabolic rate in the human body, which means divides a day into three parts of eight hours each, take drug once every 8 hours. Only if you take drug on schedule, the plasma concentration of drug can be stable which provides good effect for the treatment. If you take drugs three times in the day, the drug concentration in plasma will be so high in daytime that it brings the risk to human body; while the blood concentration at night will too low to play the role of therapy.
"Take before meal" means that the drug needs to be taken one hour before you eat foods or two hours after your meals with an empty stomach so as to facilitate absorption. If you eat a lot of snacks before meal, then you have no empty stomach before you eat a meal.
"Take after meal" refers to taking drug half an hour after you eat a meal, so as to reduce the drug’s irritation on the gastrointestinal or facilitate the absorption of the drug. If you just eat a lot of snacks before you sit at table, you do not have to take drugs after you eat the meal.

 
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