When many people take medicine, they do not say it on their lips, but they are still very afraid in their hearts.
This matter is no wonder that everyone, even if they don’t know much about drugs, basically know that drugs have side effects. However, if you have a little understanding of drugs… you will know that besides the side effects within the scope of rational drug use, there are also toxic reactions, allergic reactions and other adverse reactions caused by irrational drug use.
Are you scared when you’re about to take your medicine? Don’t worry, these adverse reactions are not so easy to produce.
Is it three-part poison? How to avoid [poisoning]?
There are probably not a few people who have this idea. If one pill is swallowed, the whole person will already feel bad.
For this kind of idea, I just want to say [please correctly understand the words “three drugs are poisonous”! ]
[It is the three-point toxicity of drugs] does not mean that [all drugs have their own three-point toxicity]. If you insist, its three-point toxicity is reflected in:
First, toxic when the dose is too large; Second, toxic when accumulated too much; Three, toxic under special circumstances.
STEP 1 Take medicine according to the doctor’s advice
In the first case, as long as we take it according to the doctor’s advice or instructions, the drug concentration will remain within a relatively safe range and will not break through the line of [toxic reaction].
If there is Xiong Haizi at home, the medicine must be put away, not where children can get it.
Step 2: Don’t overeat
To avoid the second situation, the first thing to do is to pay attention to the taking time. The instructions say that if you take it for no more than three days, you should not take it for a week.
The metabolism of the elderly, children and patients with liver and kidney diseases is relatively slow, so it is more necessary to pay attention to the problem of accumulation, especially for those whose instructions are marked with the words “caution for the elderly and children” or “caution for patients with liver and kidney diseases”, it is better to consult a doctor or pharmacist before taking them.
Under normal medication, it is not so easy to produce poison.
3. Pay attention to the physical reaction after taking the medicine,
A special case is a small probability event, such as [specific heterogeneous reaction]. A few people are particularly sensitive to certain drugs, and even at normal doses, they will have a larger reaction, such as some people cannot use penicillin and are allergic to penicillin.
How to avoid this?
First, inform doctors or pharmacists of your allergy history and avoid using these drugs;
Two, pay attention to the physical reaction after taking the medicine, adverse symptoms, timely medical treatment.
Some [drug toxicity] that you didn’t notice
To sum up, as long as we follow the doctor’s advice and read the instructions, we can avoid most [poison], but some are relatively hidden.
1. Take multiple drugs at the same time and be careful of being poisoned.
For example, in order to get well with a cold, you should have one western medicine and one Chinese patent medicine. Both medicines are taken strictly according to the instructions. Is that all right?
This is really problematic. In fact, it is possible that both drugs contain the same ingredient, or one of the drugs enhances the effect of the other drug, thus causing artificial [poisoning].
The above situation can obviously be avoided.
2. The drug has deteriorated, expired and may be [toxic]
Before taking the medicine, check the drug package to see if it is complete and still within the shelf life.
Some of the adverse drug events are caused by improper preservation of drugs, taking deteriorated drugs or drugs that have passed their shelf life.
Don’t take these drugs, or you will create [poisoning] opportunities for yourself.
What if adverse drug reactions occur?
No matter whether it is a what type of adverse reaction, if it happens, don’t worry.
1. Observe and see the severity of adverse reactions
If it is a slight reaction such as stomachache and nausea within half an hour after taking the medicine, if it can be relieved, there is no need to stop the medicine.
2. Seek medical treatment in time
However, if you have irreparable rash, severe headache, blurred vision, inability to breathe, etc., do not hesitate to send you to a doctor immediately.
In particular, if purple plaques are found on the body, serious allergic reactions may occur, and the doctor should be sent immediately.
Does it feel wrong to take the medicine? It must hurt your body?
The above mentioned are mainly irrational drug use and [poisoning] under special circumstances. In addition to these, the more common is [poisoning] under rational drug use, that is, the side effects of drugs.
After taking the medicine, the body felt [something was wrong], some of which you felt, while others you didn’t.
1. Wide range of attacks, injuries to innocent people
Because rational drug use can also produce side effects, but this does not mean that the drug [hurts] your body, but when the drug exerts its efficacy, it is not targeted and has a wide range of attacks, implicating some other organs.
However, we must believe that the safety experiments conducted before each drug goes on the market have proved that we can bear these side effects of other organs after many experiments.
Then you may say, is it better to use more targeted drugs?
In theory, not in practice.
On the one hand, due to the limited time and experience of human beings in drug research and development, the clinical application time of some drugs with high pertinence developed in the later period is not long and more observation is needed. On the other hand, even if the pertinence for a certain disease or symptom is high, it does not mean that the side effects of this drug on human body must be smaller.
For example, the most commonly used antipyretic and analgesic drugs, the established ibuprofen, have low pertinence and will affect gastrointestinal tract, liver and other organs. However, ibuprofen is still the first choice for children to reduce fever, because it is by far the safest.
2. That action time is long and the action time is still in the drug effect
Some drugs, you may not feel at the moment, but get up the next day and feel something is wrong. This is the [aftereffect] of drugs.
For example, some sedative and hypnotic drugs may feel weak and sleepy after getting up the next day. But rest assured, this is not to hurt the brain, just because there are still some drug residues in the body, which are still playing a role.
Once the drug is stopped, the drug is usually slowly discharged out of the body. Drugs with fast metabolism will be discharged quickly. Even drugs with slow metabolism will be basically discharged in about three days, so don’t worry about it all the time.