Old people need to pay attention to medication 4

When elderly people suffer from chronic diseases, they often need to eat several medicines at the same time. At this time, if a minor illness is rehabilitated and medication is taken without authorization, adverse reactions may occur. On November 26th, the American medical website “Medicine” published an interview with Ivan Scott, director of internal medicine and clinical epidemiology at Princess Alexandra Princess Hospital of the University of Queensland in Australia. He suggested that the elderly should pay attention to the following four points.

Stop the doctor and ask the doctor. When suffering from multiple diseases, the elderly may want to see as many as three to four doctors. The doctors in different departments will consider whether or not to use the medicine according to the special treatment needs. The patient should inform the doctor about the medicine being used so as not to affect the judgment. If necessary, doctors from multiple departments need to agree to stop changing drugs.

Medication do not "follow the trend." The degree of response of different patients to drugs is also different, some elderly people find themselves using a certain kind of drug is not effective, but other people use the effect is very good, this is mostly because of the difference in the disease, and caused by different physical constitution. The medication should be prescribed by the doctor, and you can't see that other people use the effect to change the medicine.

Nutrition does not make up for it. If there is no obvious lack of nutrients, long-term supplements are not recommended to avoid affecting the effect of the medication being taken.

Types must be controlled. Many elderly people use their own over-the-counter pain medications and anti-diarrhea medicines. Although they have fewer side effects, due to the elderly may not remember the dose, time and sequence that need to be taken, if taken improperly (such as insufficient intervals, wrong dosage, etc.), it is easy to cause excessive. If it is a compound drug, it may also increase the risk of interaction with long-term use of the drug, it is recommended that the elderly consult a doctor before use.