What does it mean - "to drink" pill? This means - to take them as described in the attached instructions. These recommendations give doctors when prescribing medicines. Failure to follow these instructions can result in the fact that the tablet will not have the therapeutic effect or even harm your body.
Taking medication, you need to pay attention to the following points:
• Multiplicity of reception;
• Contact the medication with meals;
• Compatibility of drugs;
• Ability to "fractional" dosages;
• Liquid zapivaniya;
• Instructions for use.
Multiplicity of reception
Medication should be taken ill at regular intervals. If your doctor has prescribed pills 2 times a day, it means that the interval between doses should be 12 hours; 3 times daily - 8 hours 4 times a day - 6 hours. Ie medication techniques to be distributed evenly throughout the day, not only during the period of wakefulness. This applies particularly to receive antibiotics.
Communication drug administration with meals
Some tablets can be taken regardless of mealtime; it is very convenient for the patient. But, unfortunately, these tablets are not so many.
Medication designated "before meal" should be drunk fasting or at least 4 hours after the previous meal. Stomach should be free of food from the gastric juice and because in an acidic medium, these drugs merely destroyed.
Take medicine "while eating" - simple and clear.
"After the meal," appointed by the pill, normalizes digestion or irritate the stomach lining.
By the way, "food" is considered to be even a small amount of food (apple, banana, glass compote), but not necessarily a complete meal. Breakfast or dinner.
Compatible drugs
If you are assigned to multiple drugs at the same time, you need to check with a doctor if you can take all these pills at once or do some break between their reception. Drug interactions between a studied, not all drugs, and if the doctor is not allowed to drink all the assigned pills at once, "a handful", then you need to stand for half an hour between taking different medications.
The possibility of "fractional" dosages
Sometimes the patient is cheaper to buy a tablet dosage greater than he is assigned, and take them by breaking into 2 and then into 4 parts. But can not do so with all the tablets. Coated tablets can not be split up at all. If your tablet has a dividing strip - so you can crush the tablet. The absence of such a strip - no guarantee that he broke the tablet, you will get the correct dose.
Fluid zapivaniya
Wash down pills, with rare exceptions, only boiled water at room temperature. No tea, no coffee, no juice for zapivaniya medicines are not suitable.
Some medications need to drink alkaline mineral water, milk or acidic drinks, but these are exceptions, and they are always written in the instructions.
Methods of use
Some tablets should be chewed, they are called - "chewable tablets". There are pills that need to dissolve in the mouth. Medications in the form of pills need swallowed whole without raskusyvaya. These instructions must be carried out, otherwise the therapeutic effect of the tablet will not have or will have a much later.
Follow the doctor's prescription and carefully read the instructions supplied with the drugs - then you take pills correctly.