1. PRINCIPLE AND APPROPRIATELY TAKING MEDICATION.
How to appropriately take medication can follow the instructions below.
1. READ THE LABEL THOROUGHLY BEFORE TAKING THE MEDICATION.
Usually, every medicine will have the labels with the names, instructions, prohibition, and other details. We should strictly follow the instructions.
2. TAKE THE RIGHT TYPES OF MEDICINE.
If taking the wrong medicine, it will be harmful to the patient and the diseases cannot be cured. Some medicines may have similar colors, shape, or packages, but their effectiveness is different.
3. TAKE THE RIGHT DOSE.
If taking less dose of medicine, it cannot effectively cure the diseases and may cause resistance to the medicine. Moreover, if taking overdose, it will be harmful to the body. The patient should take the right dose and type of the medicine such as the medicine to relieve a pain and a fever must be taken 1 – 2 tablets every 4 – 6 hours.
4. TAKE THE MEDICINE AT THE RIGHT TIME.
Since some medicines have to be taken before meals like anti biotic or penicillin because this type of medicine can be absorbed well when the stomach is empty. However, other medicines should be taken after meal, while the medicines which cause drowsiness will be taken before going to bed; they should not be taken while working with the machine or driving because they may cause danger.
- before meal medicine should be taken half an hour to one hour before meals.
- after meal medicine should be taken immediately after meals or 15 minutes after meals.
- medicine before going to bed should be taken before going to bed to make the body relaxed.
5. TAKE MEDICINE APPROPRIATELY
Such as a lozenge we should have it gradually dissolved in the mouth: it will not be effective if we swallow it together with food. And also, other medicine like a balm can be used for skin; we cannot eat it because it causes harm to the body.
6. TAKE THE MEDICINE FOR THE RIGHT PERSON:
The physician will prescribe the medication for each person’s illness with the patient’s names on the sachets; the medicines should not be given to others for any treatment since some medicines are prohibited for children or the elderly or the patients with certain diseases if these types of medicines are used, they might cause dangerous side effects.
7. DO NOT TAKE EXPIRY OR DETERIORATED MEDICINES:
Which can be seen from the change of outside appearance such as colors, smells, tastes, and shapes; they must be thrown away.
Instructions for medicine usages:
1. Shake well before used if it is a liquid medicine.
2. Some medicines cannot simultaneously be taken with certain food or drinks such as do not take those medicines with milk, tea, or coffee since they are resistant to each other resulting in harmfulness or ineffective treatment.
3. Do not buy medicines from the pills, the bottles, the sachets or the tube of used medicines or wrong belief getting from advertisement.
4. Seal the sachets tightly to prevent moisture and do not expose them to light or keep them in hot and damp places, which can deteriorate.
5. Do not take double medications when skipping to take once because it will be overdosed causing harmfulness.
6. If allergic to the medicine or take the wrong dose, the symptoms of which are feeling sick, throwing up, swollenness of the face and the body, rash, stuffiness, breathlessness etc.; stop taking that medication at once and go to the physician bringing that medicine as well.
7. Do not keep each person’s medicine with others’ in the family or with other types used for animals or plants such as insecticide or other medical substances. They may wrongly use.
8. Keep the medicines away from the reach of children because children may unknowingly take them resulting in harmfulness to their health.
9. Household medicines should be bought in order to relieve common symptoms because they can cheap, safe and easy to be used. If taking that medicine and not recovering from the symptoms, they should consult the physician.