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Our health is on completely different feet today than a few decades ago. Diseases against which hardly any herb used to grown can be treated or at least alleviated. We owe this to a variety of medication that significantly increases our quality of life and increased the average service life significantly. For Ruth Hein, it is particularly fascinating: “Today you can really treat a lot and, above all, significantly improve life and quality of life with serious people.”
More medication – more interactions
In the hospital pharmacy, the experts are often asked about the so -called “polypharmacy”. According to Hein, polyphaharmacy is spoken at the same time from taking five medication. Change or side effects can occur here that reinforce or weaken each other. Particularly tricky: Some undesirable effects are not recognized as such and create a “ordinance cascade”. Clinic pharmacists therefore carefully examine all interactions and advise in detail.
“If you take several medication regularly, you should definitely have a current drug list – this is vital, especially in emergencies,” says Hein. Dietary supplements and free -selling preparations, such as St. John’s wort, can also lead to unexpected interactions. Incidentally, apparently harmless things such as grapefruit juice influence the effect of some drugs.
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