The old drug use and principles

China's traditional Chinese medicine reported

        The old because of viscera function decline to get all kinds of disease and, therefore, the drug is also more relevant. But to use scientific and reasonable, just right, like this can ease from life, or you will give the body unnecessary damage. According to the characteristics of the old people, the drug should be paid attention to when the following principles:

        To master the indications old people to grasp drug indications, only after disease diagnosis to suit the remedy to the case. In general, the constitution feeble, emaciated, anemia, and the deficiency, avoid by all means is big, big cool, divergent, high xie medicine; Physical obesity, high blood pressure, high blood fat, youths have high cholesterol, the old people, should be careful with large temperature, big heat, rise mention nourishing medicine.

        Choose the right dosage form of some old people suffering from the disease is more, once the drugs also more. And the old people's swallowing function is bad, unfavorable use tablet, capsule, and can choose liquid dosage form. In addition, the old gastrointestinal function is unstable, not take a slow release of pharmaceutical preparations, otherwise they will be for the sudden acceleration gastric bowel peristalsis and make the drug release not sufficiently.

        Pay attention to the medicine way old people if can taken orally, we don't need to through the veins and muscle injection way to medicine. This is because the old people's blood vessel walls brittle easy to break, and muscle on the drug absorption ability is bad, when to inject the drug way, pain is significant or easy to form scleroma, should try to reduce injection to medicine.

        The medicine go down types according to the statistics, the use of a drug adverse reaction rate of 10.8%, while the use of six medicine, adverse reaction rate can be increased to 27%, so the old especially older people suffering from chronic organic disease medication kinds should decrease as far as possible.

        Choose the right dose because kidney function decline old people, cause the body to drug metabolism ability to drop, and at the same time the excretion of kidney also slower, general provisions, 60 ~ 80 year old old people to use an adult dose of 4/5; 80 years old or older use an adult dose of 1/2.

        Pay attention to adverse drug reactions old people are adverse drug reactions of high-risk groups, in use process, if appear certain abnormal symptoms, should be timely withdrawal. In addition, it also should avoid long-term use, lest make the drugs in the body to desegregate toxic reaction.

        Choose a time the old drug use by the length of time to illness, usually in "the greater failure and check" the principle, especially for the bigger toxicity medicines. Except some can't suddenly stop drugs like antiepileptic drug, treatment Parkinson drugs, syndrome sugar cortical hormone drugs except for such, other drug discontinuation are safe.

        Don't abuse tonic eat tonic, would bring a lot of damage. For example, take a large amount for a long time, having nutrition medicine, can cause the body in more bone hyperplasia. But as a treatment for the disease auxiliary measures, with some supplements can also be appropriate, but must take the orders. (XinLang)