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• Using Medication Safely
  You can use an online drug interaction checker to find possible problems with how your medication combinations or when you take them. Especially if you take a lot of different medications you may find that some should be taken in the morning and others at night, some can be taken with food and others should not, some cannot be taken close to the time that you take other medications. Use about.com's drug interaction calculator located here: http://gsm.about.com/interact/inter.asp
  
  
  • Allergic To Your Medication
    Make sure you tell your pharmacist about your medication allergy. A medication allergy is caused by an over-sensitive immune system. The individual with a medication allergy has an immune system that attacks the medication as if it were a harmful substance. If you are allergic to the medication that you are taking it may not surface until a few days after you start taking the medication. Your allergic reaction may not even surface until up to 3 weeks after you start taking the medication.
    
    
  • Organize Your Medications
    It is important to ventilate your bathroom as some medications can lose potency in high humidity.Make use of your linen closet for medications that are seldom used to make more room in your medicine cabinet. Look for bargains for those medications that you use a lot and stock up. Keep the extra stock on a top shelf of the linen closet away from little hands.Organizing your medications will make it easier to find them when you need them, and are a good way to take inventory of medications that you need to purchase for seasonal changes.
    
    
  • Medications For The Common Cold
    It is important to only take one medication at a time unless your doctor or pharmacist has said that combining medications is all right to do. Taking more than one kind of medication can lead to an undesirable drug reaction that may have disastrous results. When taking a medication whether it is prescribed or an over-the-counter (OTC) medication, you should always determine what the medicine is suppose to do for you, how and when the medication should be taken, what possible side effects can you expect to experience, what activities may have to be avoided while taking the medication, and of course how will you know if the medication is working?
    
    
  • Over The Counter Medications Clarified
    There are four main categories of OTC medications: Pain Relievers, Antihistamines, Decongestants, and Cough Medicines. OTC's are made to be convenient purchases for those looking to relieve the symptoms of the common cold, flu or allergies. It is important that individuals realize that some OTC medications contain the same ingredients that are found in certain prescription medications thus if you are being prescribed medications by your doctor and you stop by your neighborhood drugstore and pick up something to help with symptoms you are having, you may without knowing it be taking twice the dose of a certain drug between what you were prescribed and what you just picked up at the store.
    
    
  • Popular Medications and Uses
    Those suffering from Herpes may take Valtrex to slow the growth of the herpes virus in order for your body to have the chance to fight off the virus. You may experience nausea, or even diarrhea while taking this drug. Males suffering from erectile dysfunction may turn to Levitra to relax muscles in order to increase blood flow to the male sex organ. One side effect of using this medication is that they may experience warmth or redness to the facial area, and possibly a stuffy nose. One popular depression drug is, Zoloft, which is used to balance the chemicals in the brain responsible for depression and anxiety. Feeling nervous or drowsy is just two of the known side effects for those using this drug.
    
    
  • Methods of Administering Medications
    The reason for different routes of administration of medication is because some medication cannot be absorbed through the stomach, other medications need to be inhaled as in asthma mediations and others use the fastest route such as intravenously. The route is determined by the absorption need, the best way to give relief, and the type of medication. Many cancer medications can only be given intravenously, and others are installed in the bladder or intra peritoneal instillation. Skin diseases are often treated by absorption through the skin such as creams and lotions.
    
    
  • How to Use Eye Medications
    Researchers have found that using atropine eye drops, once a day can have the same benefits as patching the eye in order to treat amblyopia (lazy eye). The recent study will give comfort to children who have trouble keeping the eye patch on. Because wearing the patch is critical to success of the therapy, using eye drops can be an easier route for parents and kids. Eye medications have become increasingly important to not only treat eye disease but to aid in keeping the eye moisturized, and in curing eye conditions. Your eyes are important not only for sight but also because we need them to look good!
    
    
  • The Purpose of Medications
    Finding out all you can about what your medication is being prescribed for, how it will make you feel better, and knowing about any expected side effects or interactions with other medications beforehand can save you time and money. Some medications must be taken on an empty stomach to work and others need to be taken with food so that they do not upset your stomach. Some medications if taken incorrectly can cause liver damage or damage to other body organs, so it is important to find out all you can about how to take your medication, what the proper dosage is and how often you should take your medication. Individuals who take herbal supplements should know that certain medications should not be taken when you are taking certain herbal supplements so it is important to tell your doctor about any other medications or any herbal supplements that you are taking or have taken recently when you are being prescribed a medication to take.
    
    
  • Know Your Medication
    It is important to understand about the drug interactions that are possible for the medication you are taking because drug interactions can make your drug less effective, or may cause unexpected side effects, or the drug interaction may increase the action of your medication. Drug interactions can also harm you. There are three categories of drug interactions that include: Two or more drugs reacting to each other such as taking a sleeping pill and an allergy pill at the same time Another interaction can be between a drug you are taking and a beverage such as alcohol having an effect on certain drugs that will make you sleepy

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