Medication: But right

Did you know that ear drops should be optimally warm? And that if they are too cold, dizziness and headache can cause?

Grape fruit juice should never be taken with drugs - know the most. But what is also subtleties to be considered is often unknown: pharmacists estimate that about 40 percent of all prescribed medicines incorrectly or not at all be taken.

In the case harmless means that the drugs in their effectiveness reduced. Under the wrong circumstances, taking also be dangerous - such as grapefruit juice: The drink inhibits a specific enzyme in intestinal mucosa and liver. Drugs are subsequently increased in quantity; what ultimately lead poisoning symptoms.

Who ferrous drugs together with tea or coffee taking a risk that the information contained pectins with the iron in the intestine into solid chemical compounds together. And who particularly bold or extensively eat, must reckon that a painkiller until much later - if any - effect.

Such a list goes on and on. Admittedly, the leaflets of the drugs now an accurate catalog of interactions with other drugs - but about the kind of revenue they say is still quite low. Basically, if a drink is needed to take, is necessarily water. And the phrase “on an empty stomach” does not mean just before the meal, but at least half an hour before. Various trade journals and Internet sites are trying now, the correct use of certain drugs to catalogue. Until, however, the knowledge of the right kind of revenue in the general public arrived, there should still a few years in which 40 percent will be swallowed in vain…

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