Too Much Drink Drugs Can be Dangerous

Jakarta, medicine is usually taken to help heal, alleviate or prevent disease. But experts warn that consumed too many drugs can actually pose a risk.

Eating lots of medication every day can create its own medical risks for the person than the cure. For that you should consider which drugs are a priority to be consumed each day.

"The more drugs dikonsusmi then increase the chance of drug interactions or major side effects and the possibility of something bad happening," said Sophia De Monte, spokesman of the American Pharmacists Association, as quoted from HealthDay, Sunday (12/4/2011).

This condition is called polypharmacy which excessive use of drugs to someone who really needs. This not only happens on prescription drugs alone, but also can occur from-the-counter drugs and supplements.

De Monte and Norman P Tomaka said that consumption of a drug that many might have problems in three main areas, namely:
1. Drug interactions, one drug may work against other drugs in a weird way, so the greater the risk of interactions that can affect health.
2. Influencing medication adherence, more and more drugs taken it will cause much of a burden on that person thus increasing the risk of decreased compliance in taking medication. Lack of compliance will lead to other conditions, such as drinking less adherent bacteria to antibiotics can make bacteria more resistant.
3. Side effects, every drug that is consumed has its own risks of side effects, and sometimes drugs that one can cover the symptoms of side effects of other drugs. So if any adverse reactions, one becomes difficult to guess which drug that triggers these side effects.

"Doctors and pharmacists must work together in reviewing prescription drugs for pasian in minimizing medication that needs to be taken, so they can get the best treatment with minimal side effects," said De Monte.

Meanwhile, De Monte and Tomaka suggest some steps one can do to ensure that drug consumption does not cause greater than the Environment for its usefulness in treating the disease, namely:

Eating each drug separately with water
Read all information provided from each of the drugs taken either prescription or OTC medications, so it can be known is there any potential problems that may arise
Check and ask the benefits, side effects and contraindications of each drug given to doctors and pharmacists
Reported symptoms that appear after start taking the new drug.