Before the meal, after the meal, with the food: Such information is to be found in many medicines.
Patients should you will observe, reports the journal ‘Diabetes counselor’. As for the details, there are a number of specific reasons.
Tablets are taken before eating or on an empty stomach, ingredients faster into the gut and into the blood.
In some medicines this is important so that you can have optimum effect. Best you wait for such a medication after taking it for 30 to 60 minutes before you start eating.
“With meal” means, in fact, tablets, in-between two mouthfuls, or to swallow it directly.
It is recommended this input, for example, in the case of medicines that can damage the gastric mucosa. By mixing with chyme that can be prevented.
Tricky the note “after the eating”: Often can’t tell exactly what is meant by patients should ask the doctor or in the pharmacy.
Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa)
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