Absrtact: Take the wrong medicine, it will really happen.
Just at the end of last year, CCTV once reported such a sad incident:
Many people know about vitamin C effervescent tablets. The correct way to use this tablet is to put it into warm water and drink the glass of water after the tablets are completely dissolved.
When effervescent tablets dissolve, they release a large amount of carbon dioxide, just like this:
If effervescent tablets are directly put into the mouth or swallowed, a large amount of gas will quickly fill the airway or digestive tract, causing asphyxia in severe cases.
Taking medicine, this seemingly ordinary trivial matter, if you don’t pay attention to it, it will really be dangerous.
Just because of the wrong medication, a baby’s life is over, which is regrettable.
But is what the right way to take medicine?
Because of chronic diseases or inevitable minor diseases and pains, there will always be times when medicine needs to be taken. According to different types of drugs, different administration methods are required.
Common tablet
Drink water and take it.
Warm boiled water can make the tablets swallow more smoothly. Drinking plenty of water properly can prevent the drug from adhering to the esophagus, causing irritation and injury, and also affecting the drug effect.
Remember not to use milk, fruit juice, tea, etc. to send tablets.
Take tablet
Hold it. Don’t swallow it in a hurry.
The location of the tablets contained in what should be determined according to the urgency of the situation and the demand for the speed of the drug effect.
Ordinary tablets containing drugs are for the sake of [slowness]-to let the drug effect come into play slowly.
For example, metronidazole buccal tablets are mainly used to relieve pharyngeal discomfort. Taking them can make the medicine stay in the mouth for a longer time. After saliva melts the tablets, it will relieve pharynx bit by bit.
However, there are some first aid situations or when tablets need to take effect as soon as possible, there are special uses.
The most important thing to say is nitroglycerin tablets. This drug needs to be taken sublingually in order to play its role as soon as possible and relieve angina pectoris.
Because there are abundant blood vessels under the tongue, the tablets placed under the tongue can allow the drugs to pass through the blood vessel wall faster, be absorbed quickly, and will not be lost due to liver metabolism.
Chewable tablets
Chew and swallow
Chewing chewable tablets has two advantages. One is to grind drugs to promote drug absorption. The second is to make people who take medicine happier and take medicine more smoothly.
Most chewable tablets are added with [corrective], which may taste orange and apple when chewed. It tastes good and is suitable for children who do not like taking medicine and wayward elderly people.
Remember to chew for five minutes, chew the tablets and swallow them.
For the toothless elderly or children, you can grind the chewable tablets before feeding them, with the same effect.
In addition, chewable tablets are drugs that can be taken without water. If you really feel [choking], you can use a small amount of warm boiled water to help you swallow. However, if you are taking gastric mucosa protective drugs such as [sucralfate chewable tablets], don’t drink too much water, which may wash away the protective film just formed by the mud.
Capsule
Do not remove the capsule shell
Especially enteric-coated capsules and sustained-release capsules.
The function of the outer capsule shell is to let the drug reach the place further behind the intestinal tract and then release it, or to let the drug slowly release and play a role.
Open the capsule and all these effects will disappear.
Oral liquid
When drinking like water, be careful of choking cough.
Drink in the normal drinking posture of human beings. Children don’t like to drink and don’t hold people’s noses. It is easy to choke.
Drink a medicine, don’t need this:
One thing that needs to be reminded is that compared with tablets, the solution is easier to deteriorate, so oral liquid should pay special attention to the shelf life.
Be sure to pay attention to the storage environment of oral liquid, follow the instructions, avoid light if required, and refrigerate if required.
If it is not stored as required, the oral liquid may have deteriorated within the shelf life.
Syrup
After drinking, rinse your mouth with clear water.
The reason why these syrup drugs are so thick is to let the drugs form a protective film on the inflammation to block stimulation and relieve cough.
Some oral liquids for relieving cough, eliminating phlegm and treating sore throat, even if the taste is bad, the taste is bad and the feeling is very [very], do not dilute it with water, or drink a lot of water and rinse your mouth with a small amount of clear water.
Having said so much, I just want to tell everyone: don’t neglect taking medicine, otherwise it may lead to big problems.
If it is light, the drug effect will be reduced, but it will not work after taking the medicine. If it is too heavy, the tragedy at the beginning of the article may occur.
In short, before taking medicine, one must distinguish the dosage form and carefully read the instructions.
Of course, if you have a choice, I hope you are healthy and do not need to take medicine.