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How many pills are you taking?

The 10th Meeting of the Study Group on the Appropriate Use of Medicines for the Elderly(2019April 24)In the article
751/4 of the older people take 7 or more types of medication every day.
4Most people take more than 5 types of medicine.

Because this is a statistic of drugs prescribed in pharmacies
Maybe you get it from an in-house prescription clinic, or you get it from another pharmacy
If you don't have a medication notebook, you may be taking more.


Why are so many drugs prescribed?

(1) Medications always have side effects.
Typical gastrointestinal symptoms (nausea, stomach pain, constipation, diarrhea, etc.)
Medication will be added to it.

In some cases, it is served as a set from the beginning.

(2) As people get older, the number of people who go to various medical departments increases.
Then, medicine will be prescribed in each department.
I often see stomach medicines being prescribed on top of each other.
The current situation is that it is rarely sorted out by out-of-hospital pharmacies.

Other medications may also be given for different symptoms.

(3) It is difficult to touch the medicine prescribed by the doctor of other departments.

In order to suppress the symptoms, there are times when the number of medications is increased more and more.

What are the problems if you take a lot of medicine?

I don't know which medication is working.
Unexpected side effects can occur with many combinations of medications.
It can have serious and life-threatening side effects.

For example, Parkinson's symptoms, cognitive symptoms, asthma attacks, weakness, delirium
These are some of the side effects that I've actually seen.


Patients who are admitted to the hospital in an emergency are often unable to take their medicine.
In that case, all the medications you have been taking until you calm down will naturally be discontinued.
It is.

Rather than causing troublesome symptoms
More often than not, nothing happens.

When you get well
When you are discharged from the hospital

All medications are resumed.
Most of the time.
It can also increase.

Do you really need the medication you're taking right now?

There are many things you can do easily in a life that does not rely on medication as much as possible.

Do you use painkings all the time?

When my head hurts a little, when I have a fever, my back hurts, when I have menstrual pain
Painking is really convenient, isn't it?
So is the compress.

Actually, I'm also quite patrons.?I was.

At one point, there are quite a lot of stomach ulcers caused by pain control in a gastroenterology teacher! and
I was told.
If you are drinking only painking reliever when you look into it4～43％Gastric ulcers are reported to occur at a frequency of

After hearing that, I started not to drink painstices as much as possible.



I have a little failure story.
A few years after skiing out the ligaments of the knees,
I thought that I was completely cured because I didn't feel any pain.
When I walked on the mountain path for more than 10 hours, my knee pain suddenly recurred??
I could only walk with half a limp.

I was at a high that if I went to bed overnight, I would be revived again,
I still got up in the morning.painful
But I have to walk for 10 hours today.

1I was patient for about an hour and walked, but only at about half the speed of usual
Stuck?

A word of the companion who was walking togetherDid you take the medicine?It said.

I didn't really want to drink it, but less than half an hour later.
The pain is gone like a lie.

I'm so comfortable that I'm walking faster than usual.

The pain did not occur even when it was time when the medicine was supposed to run out.

Painking is still useful.
However, there are many side effects such as stomach ulcers when used habitually.
Use it only when necessary without relying on medicine as much as possible.
This is important.

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