With the strengthening of people's awareness of health care, many families have prepared some commonly used drugs in case of physical discomfort, which can also reduce the trouble of going to the hospital frequently. So, what are the general standing medicines?
(1) for external use. Commonly used external drugs should be in stock: Band-Aid, Oral Ulcer Powder, Burn Green Ointment, Jinwanhong, etc.
(2) Oral medication. Generally, internal medicine should be stocked: drugs for treating colds, aspirin, paracetamol, Xiaoer Qingre granules, Radix Isatidis, Huoxiang Zhengqi water or capsules, etc. Used for cough, Chuanbei Qingfei syrup, infantile cough syrup, etc. Treatment of indigestion, yeast tablets, Jianwei Xiaoshi tablets, etc. Berberine used to stop diarrhea, etc. Allergic chlorpheniramine, etc. ; There are also drugs for treating heart disease, lowering blood pressure and lowering blood sugar.
Clever storage of standing drugs
Standing drugs should not be piled together, but should be stored in categories, and the instructions should not be discarded casually. Keep them for future reference. It is especially important to note that you should not casually use an empty medicine bottle to fill another medicine, so as to avoid taking the wrong medicine in a hurry and lead to serious consequences. So drugs should be classified and stored:
(1) Drugs that need to be refrigerated should be placed in the refrigerated space of the refrigerator according to the instructions (see instructions).
(2) Drugs that need to be protected from light should be placed in sealed dark bottles according to the instructions (see instructions).
(3) Drugs that need moisture protection should be placed in a closed container according to the instructions (see instructions).
In addition, it should be noted that drugs should be kept out of the reach of children to avoid adverse consequences; Always check the stored drugs, and throw away the expired drugs and those that will not be taken in the future, so as to avoid taking expired drugs in a hurry, or finding that buying drugs after expiration delays the best time to take drugs.
Tips for taking commonly used drugs
(1) Drinking soup through a straw can reduce the bitterness. Although the bitter taste of good medicine is beneficial to the disease, the bitter medicine soup is still very daunting. Naturally, it can cure diseases and is easy to swallow. Here, it is suggested that when people take decoction, they can directly inhale it into their throats through straws, which can reduce the bitterness.
(2) Don't peel the capsule medicine. When people take capsules, they think they are useless and even harmful to human body. Therefore, when taking it, it is often peeled off to take medicine, which is an incorrect method of taking medicine.
Medical experts point out that the capsule shell made of glue is not only used as a container. It has certain scientific truth. This capsule is soluble in water and gastric acid, and is harmless to human body. The medicine in capsules is very irritating, and it is easy to choke the trachea. Moreover, capsules can protect the esophagus and protect the medicine, and you can't take it without shelling.
Matters needing attention in taking antihypertensive drugs
Now hypertension has become a threat to the health of middle-aged and elderly people. General hypertensive patients take antihypertensive drugs to maintain a normal state. In this way, how to take antihypertensive drugs correctly has become a key issue. When taking antihypertensive drugs at ordinary times, besides following the doctor's advice, you should also pay attention to the following points:
(1) Do not take it before going to bed. General drugs reach the maximum effect after 2 hours. If you take antihypertensive drugs before going to bed, the effect will be obvious after 2 hours. At this time, people's own blood pressure is also falling, and blood pressure will drop sharply, which will lead to angina pectoris and myocardial infarction. Therefore, medical experts remind people to take medicine at the prescribed time.
(2) The dosage is too large. Some people are eager to lower their blood pressure, so they increase the dose, thinking that this will produce better results, which is very incorrect. If you take antihypertensive drugs excessively, it will cause a sharp drop in blood pressure, which may lead to serious consequences. Because human arterial blood pressure is the power to flow to tissues and organs, and it is the transportation pipeline to ensure the blood volume required by tissues and organs, if blood pressure drops sharply, it will lead to insufficient blood supply to human tissues and organs, causing ischemia, hypoxia and other phenomena, and may have more serious consequences, so experts remind: Don't take a large number of antihypertensive drugs in a hurry.
(3) suddenly stop taking drugs. Many patients with hypertension take antihypertensive drugs for a long time. If antihypertensive drugs are suddenly stopped for some reason, it will lead to antihypertensive drug withdrawal syndrome. This kind of symptom is very common, which is generally manifested as: sharp rise in blood pressure, dizziness, weakness of limbs, sweating and so on. In severe cases, it may also lead to life-threatening symptoms such as cardiovascular spasm and myocardial infarction. This is because of the sudden cessation of taking antihypertensive drugs, resulting in a rebound in blood pressure. Therefore, medical experts remind people not to stop taking drugs suddenly, but to stop taking drugs step by step even if their blood pressure drops and their condition improves.
Correct use of mercuric chloride
When people scratch, scratch or disinfect the skin surface, they often use mercuric chloride for disinfection. However, mercuric chloride should not be used blindly, and the correct use method should be followed:
(1) Avoid using with tincture of iodine. Because when mercuric chloride and tincture of iodine are used together, a chemical reaction will occur, and then a highly toxic chemical substance will be generated, which will bring harm to human health.
(2) Don't use it with purple potion. Mixing red syrup with purple syrup will reduce the efficacy.
(3) Do not contact with acid, which is not suitable for large-area wear.
Which drugs should not be taken with hot water?
Generally take medicine with hot water, but some drugs are not suitable for this way, such as:
(1) digestive drugs. Digestive drugs generally contain enzyme, which is an active protein. After heating, it will solidify and denature and lose its efficacy.
(2) Vitamin C This is a water-soluble preparation, which will be reduced after heating, leading to deterioration and further loss of efficacy.
(3) cough syrup. Taking cough syrup with hot water will dilute the syrup and reduce the concentration of syrup, which will lead to the inability of syrup to cover the surface of inflamed pharyngeal mucosa and form a protective film, which will not achieve the due curative effect.
How to use nasal drops correctly
Many people will feel bitter when using nasal drops. In fact, this is because the method is wrong. If the medicine is used in the wrong way, it will not only have bitterness, but also lose its efficacy. The correct way to use it should be:
The patient should lie flat on the bed, with his head sticking out of the edge of the bed, his head raised and his nostrils facing up, and then he can drop two nostrils at the same time. Another method is to drop the medicine on one side of their heads, first on the lower nostril, and then on the other nostril after inversion and transposition. It should be noted that both methods need to keep the original posture for 3-5 minutes after dropping the medicine, so that the medicine can be evenly distributed in the nasal mucosa, and there will be no bitter taste that ordinary people feel.
Take medicine and watch your posture.
Correct medication posture is helpful to exert its curative effect;
(1) It is best for bedridden patients to take medicine in a sitting position and take it with warm boiled water, preferably 60ml of water, not too much.
(2) Generally, patients should stand for more than one minute, which is helpful for the diffusion and absorption of drugs.
(3) Patients with angina pectoris should sit in a chair and take nitroglycerin tablets. If you take it standing up, you may feel dizzy and faint due to cerebral ischemia; If taken in bed, it will increase the blood flow in veins and prolong the onset time.
In addition, some people swallow it directly without drinking water for the convenience of taking medicine, which may lead to the decline of drug efficacy or esophageal mucosal damage. Water is a good solvent. Drinking water not only increases the emptying speed of the stomach, so that drugs can quickly reach the small intestine, but more importantly, it can quickly dissolve drugs and be absorbed by the human body, thus increasing the concentration of drugs in the blood. This will give better play to the efficacy.