5 Wrong Use of Stomach Pain Medicine to Hurt Your Body

Stomach pain is not necessarily a stomach problem · 

 

Stomach is bad, flatulence, heartburn ... Stomach medicine is a must-have medicine in many people's homes. It's okay to swallow a pill when stomach pain strikes. Many people think that taking Western medicine hurts their stomachs, so they often ask a doctor to take an appetite to take care. Taking medicine with stomach medicine, stomach medicine and other medicine together? It turned out that we took stomach medicine for so many years.

The wrong way of medication not only hurts your body, but also wastes important medical resources. It explains the 5 most common ways for people to take stomach medicines and let you use the medicine correctly.

Do you have the wrong idea that eating stomach medicine can protect the stomach? 

Do you take stomach medicine as soon as your stomach hurts? Most of the commercially available stomach medicines neutralize or inhibit gastric acid secretion, which may temporarily solve the current pain, but the symptoms are not cured. 

If you have frequent stomach pains, you still have to go to the hospital for treatment, not rely on stomach medicine. 

It is very easy to cause cancer if gastro esophageal reflux is not treated. Emergency operation is required from gastric ulcer to perforation; otherwise the consequences of peritonitis will be unimaginable. 

In addition to real stomach pain, pancreatitis, cholecystolithiasis, and other pains are often mistaken for stomach pain and delayed treatment. Stomach medicine is also a kind of medicine, and it also has its side effects.

1. See someone else's stomachache and give him his stomach medicine

Positive solution: Everyone's stomach medicine is different, you can't give others medicine at will.

The most common stomach medicines are antacids, which can be divided into carbonates and hydroxides, such as calcium carbonate, magnesium carbonate, sodium bicarbonate and magnesium hydroxide, aluminum hydroxide, etc.

How many still have side effects, such as carbonate This type of antacid is easy to bloat when you eat it, just like drinking carbonated beverages, so people who have flatulence should avoid carbonate antacids and choose hydroxides when they choose stomach medicine. 

Magnesium-based antacids can cause diarrhea, while aluminum-based ones can cause constipation easily. There are also antacids mixed with magnesium and aluminum ions on the market to offset the effects of both.

When a doctor prescribes a stomach medicine, he will give a suitable antacid according to the clinical symptoms, so his stomach medicine cannot be given to others at will.

For example, today patients with symptoms of constipation, doctors may prescribe magnesium-based antacids, but if the patient's friend happens to have stomach pains, but the body is easier to diarrhea, it is not suitable to use the same drugs to avoid aggravating the symptoms of diarrhea.

2. Every time you feel better after taking stomach medicine, continue to take stomach medicine without medical treatment

Positive solution: Stomach pain lasts for more than 1 week, there is a problem.

Many people buy stomach medicine for long-term stomach pain and do not seek medical treatment each time they take a slight improvement. However, because stomach acid is neutralized, the stomach wall is less irritated.

Many people mistakenly think that it has improved, but in fact it has not really treat diseases. Some patients eventually suffered from stomach bleeding, weight loss, and even black stools. Only then did they go to the hospital to find out that it was gastric cancer.

The doctor urged that only acute gastroenteritis can be used at home. However, acute gastroenteritis does not necessarily require medication. After taking stomach medicine, the symptoms will be relieved, but the course of the disease will not change. 

After a week, I still have pain. There are all problems. Stomach pain is a warning sign from the body. If you have symptoms, you should check and seek medical treatment.

3. Take stomach medicine as maintenance

Positive solution: First, improve diet and exercise habits to cure the root cause.

Many elders will take stomach and intestinal medicine as daily maintenance. Doctors believe that most of these drugs are proboscis, which is indeed helpful, but the symptoms are not cured. 

The diet of the elderly is often unbalanced, causing intestinal colony changes to cause constipation, and constipation can also cause colony changes, forming a vicious circle.

It is not necessary to eat these medicines for daily maintenance, but you should still start adjusting from your daily routine and diet only use proboscis unless it is really ineffective.

4. Eat Western medicine must be accompanied by stomach medicine

Positive solution: Stomach medicine is used to relieve symptoms, not to prevent stomach pain caused by medicine.

The gastrointestinal hepatobiliary doctor said that many people are afraid that Western medicine will hurt the stomach, and because most of the stomach medicine does not affect the absorption of the body and other medicines, most doctors will cooperate with patients to prescribe medicine. 

However, taking stomach medicine to prevent stomach pain is a misconception. Taking medicine with stomach medicine will not have a protective effect on the stomach, and most of them are psychological.

Pharmacists also claim that stomach medicine is used to relieve symptoms, such as antacids that neutralize stomach acid, not to prevent stomach pain caused by medicine. Most medicines will not hurt the stomach.

Except for the anti-inflammatory painkillers, iron, antibiotics (erythromycin, tetracycline), these 3 kinds of medicines will indeed stimulate the gastric mucosa for some constitutions, but they cannot be taken arbitrarily with stomach medicines. .

It is recommended that for people who suffer from discomfort after taking the medicine, the correct approach is to go back to the doctor to discuss whether to adjust the medicine and dosage, rather than buying stomach medicine by yourself, because there may be interaction between the medicines and affect absorption.

For example, some patients need to prescribe iron for hemoglobin because of stomach bleeding, but they feel uncomfortable after taking the stomach but have not sought treatment from a doctor. They went to the pharmacy to get stomach medicine, which affected the absorption of iron.

Only special ethnic groups, such as many elders, need to take anti-inflammatory analgesics (such as aspirin) for a long time because of arthritis, or have a history of ulcers. Long-term use is prone to ulcers or even stomach bleeding.

Therefore, if there is mild gastritis and erosion of the gastric mucosa, an antacid can be used to neutralize the stomach acid and reduce the attack of the drug on the gastric mucosa; but if it has caused ulcers, it is necessary to use anti-ulcer drugs such as hydrogen ion blockers. Suppress gastric acid secretion from the source.

5. when taking medicine, swallow the medicine along with other medicines

Positive solution: To take stomach medicine, it must be separated from other medicines by 1 to 2 hours; or with the consent of the doctor, take it after meals.

If it is a special group of people who need to take stomach medicine, the doctor reminds that it is correct to take stomach medicine 2 hours after taking anti-inflammatory painkillers.

Because anti-inflammatory painkillers are not uncomfortable as soon as they are taken into the stomach, they only affect the gastric mucosa after being absorbed by the body.

Therefore, gastric drugs cannot be taken together with anti-inflammatory painkillers. After (about 1 to 2 hours), then eat antacid to reduce the attack factor gastric acid, it is effective.

However, people are afraid that the time for taking medicines will be cut into pieces, which will cause problems in taking medicines.

Generally, doctors and pharmacists will recommend taking them before and after meals, with an interval of about 1 to 2 hours. The correct time of taking each medicine should strictly follow the instructions on the medicine bag.

In addition, there are now new anti-inflammatory analgesics that will not affect the protective mechanism of the gastric mucosa. 

As for iron and antibiotics, doctors and pharmacists do not recommend taking antacids at the same time, because they will affect the absorption of drugs; erythromycin is easy to cause gastrointestinal cramps, and doctors can prescribe gastrointestinal cramps to relieve gastrointestinal discomfort.

These three kinds of medicines are mostly taken before meals because they are worried that eating after meals will affect the concentration of drugs in the body. 

However, some patients are sensitive to drugs, too irritating, or even spit out the drug. If this is the case, they can discuss with the doctor to take the drug after a meal.

If there is food in the stomach, it can avoid the drug directly stimulating the gastric mucosa and causing discomfort. Although it may affect the absorption of medicines, the priority should be given to patients who can eat medicines.

Stomach pain medicine is not a panacea

The gastrointestinal liver and gallbladder doctor said that because the stomach nerves are not easy to locate, many diseases are manifested as upper abdominal pain, which looks like stomach pain. 

In addition to the common gastroenteritis, appendicitis begins with pain in the upper abdomen and slowly moves to the lower right abdomen. 

Biliary and pancreatic duct diseases such as stones, inflammation or cancer can also show upper abdominal pain. If there is no further examination, the doctor will not easily find it.

There is no shortage of medicine for one or two years in the clinic. Finally, the problem of bile pancreatic duct is even detected It is the end stage of liver cancer. 

The doctor emphasized that you should not treat all stomach pains as stomach problems, and do not think that all stomach pains will be better if you take stomach medicine.

 Once the pain does not improve for more than a week, you should seek medical attention.

In addition to acupressure, having the right eating habits is the most important! The stomach is the most emotional organ. If you are in a good mood, you want to eat and drink.

If you are in a bad mood, you will suffer from loss of appetite. Under the influence of stress and emotions, your stomach will start to ache when you are nervous. 

Perhaps focusing on eliminating stress is a good way to get your emotional stomach.

1. Timely ration of three meals, do not overeating and avoid overeating or eating too much.

2. Don't lie down and rest immediately after eating to avoid acid reflux. Don't eat at least 3 hours before going to bed.

3. Say goodbye to being too sweet, too acidic, or too oily. Greasy food will relax the esophageal sphincter and increase the reflux of the gastro esophagus.

4. Drink plenty of water to promote digestion and lubricate the stomach, but the stomach will be afraid of cold, so don't drink ice water.

5. Don't drink alcohol; it is easy to stimulate stomach mucosa inflammation