How do you understand the time of medication on the instruction manual?

the right time to take the drug, not only can effectively guarantee the effectiveness of the drug treatment, but also may reduce the side effects of the drug. The interval between taking the drug is determined by the dynamics of the drug's metabolism in the body, and only by taking the drug at the interval specified in the instructions can the drug be guaranteed to maintain a relatively stable therapeutic concentration in the body. In order to achieve the best treatment results, can not shorten the time to take drugs or irregular medication, so as not to cause drug poisoning or side effects too strong, or the concentration is too low to achieve the expected therapeutic effect.
medications commonly used in drug instructions:
1. Morning service: refers to the morning after getting up to eat breakfast 1 hour, such as anti-tuberculosis drug Lifuping, isoniazid in the morning, can produce a good sterilization effect.
2. An empty stomach: many people think that as long as you take medicine to keep an empty stomach on it, after taking the medicine can immediately go to eat. This is actually a wrong view. It refers to 1 to 2 hours before the meal or about 2 hours after the meal to take drugs, such as: intestinal tablets, the drug in the stomach fluid is not easy to disintegrate, only the intestines will be absorbed, so generally requires an empty stomach medication.
3. Before meals: 30 to 60 minutes before three meals. Less food in the stomach before meals, conducive to the absorption of drugs, generally non-irritating or irritating drugs on the stomach or drugs need to act on the stomach need to be taken before meals, such as gastric mucosa protective agents, gastrointestinal motivational drugs, acid suppressants, cephalosporas, laxatives and so on.
4. Meal: refers to a moment before or after meals, meal refers to the same as food, such as glucosidease inhibitors (acapolypse) in the small intestine competitively inhibit glycoside hydrolyzyme, so that the increase in blood sugar after meals decreased, only at the same time taking medication can produce therapeutic effect.
5. After meals: 30 minutes to 1 hour after meals.
: 15 to 30 minutes before bed.
7. If necessary: take immediately in the event of pain or an unexpected condition.
once a day: once a day in the morning or evening, and keep taking medication at the same time every day.
9. Twice a day: usually once a day for breakfast and dinner, about 12 hours apart.
10.10 times a day: Strictly speaking, three times a day means taking medication 24 hours a day and three times a day, that is, every 8 hours. However, in real life, in order for patients to better follow, it is generally recommended that patients sleep in three segments to determine the interval between dosing. It is generally recommended to take medication before or after breakfast or after dinner. However, some drugs, such as antimicrobials, anti-epileptic drugs, Parkinson's medication instructions will clearly specify the time to take the drug, such as "every 8 hours", should be strictly in accordance with the instructions.
11.11 a day: try to be divided equally within 24 hours and in harmony with the rest time.
12. Glucosin is taken between 7 a.m. and 8 a.m. Because of changes in the circadian pattern of glucosal hormone secretion, the peak of its own secretion is 7 to 8 a.m., if taken at this time exogenetic corticosteroids, the hypothethyroid-pituitary-adrenal axis inhibition will be minimized, thereby reducing side effects.
chinese and Western medicine in the same life is also quite common, and whether to take at intervals also need to consider. Chinese and Western medicine can easily cause drug interaction, such as: Ume and vitamin B12, will reduce the bio-use of vitamin B12. Therefore, usually when we use Chinese and Western medicine together, we also need to have a certain interval, in general, the interval should be greater than half an hour.