The efficacy and side effects of medications may be manifested in different ways. And it depends on at what point they are taken. This means that for the medication at a specific time. What is it?

Acceptance of the need

For most existing drugs in the market with respect to their receiving no special puzzle: they need to be taken when the need arises. Sleeping pills should drink at night, analgesics - after painful load or, alternatively, before it, and so on. For other drugs have strict rules - a regularity of reception, and only when in compliance with the medication starts to act. For example, you need to take every three hours. This is the most common cases of necessity reception. But there are other, when the medication requires a certain time of the day.

Side effects that can produce tool

Drugs that have a negative impact on the gastric mucosa (in most cases, this anti-inflammatory drugs), will cause less harm when taken with food.

There are medications, the side effects of which had been on nausea and vomiting, so if you take them with food, they are also able to bring less harm to the stomach without causing it to rejection.

If the medicine has a sedative effect, calming effect and can cause drowsiness, of course, the best time of reception - evening. Drowsiness, if it is registered in the side effects, is not going anywhere, but then move it will be easier than in any other case, for example, if you are at work.

By way of suction

When you swallow the medicine, thereby you are running in your body complex, multi-step process that will last a long time when the necessary components will move through the bloodstream to the body of the patient. However, not all drugs can be absorbed in the same medium. Some are better absorbed solely on an empty stomach, including those used in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease. They show less than 30% efficiency when taken with food. On the other hand, some vitamins (e.g., vitamin Vitamins for everyone   D) fat soluble, i.e., to bring benefits to the body, they must be dissolved in an oily medium. These need to be taken before meals.

According to the body's circadian rhythms

We can even sometimes do not notice it, but our body lives according to their own rhythms at different times of the day. Take, for example, cortisone hormone, which in synthetic form is used to treat inflammatory processes. Our body begins to secretion of about four o'clock in the morning, gradually preparing the body to wake up. If you make a tablet with a content of cortisone in the evening, the organism would not produce it in the morning, because this will not be necessary. But the way you break your circadian rhythm.

There is a time of action and antihistamines, are struggling with allergic reactions that manifest themselves markedly in the morning. Duration of antihistamine medications - twenty-four hours, so you need to take it in the evening to give yourself the next day without allergies.

Is it so important while taking medication?

Yes it is. If medications are prescribed a doctor, he should consult about the reception features. If you bought a vehicle without a prescription at the pharmacy, ask your pharmacist and read the instructions carefully, considering all the side effects and contraindications. From the time of drug administration depends efficiency.

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