Some medicines will let the old man tumble

Some medicines will let the old man tumble
Some medicines will let the old man tumble
Mention the elderly's wrestling, our first reason to expect is osteoporosis, but many the elderly fall and relate to medicine to take. Research shows abroad, fall in about 1/3 more than the elderly of community 65 and older once at least every year, but this proportion is up to 60% in the old people's home. It not only cause the elderly's fracture to fall, the activity is limited, it even causes the death that the serious one will also bring out disease. Fail because of liver renal functions of the elderly, the medicine bad reaction is apter to take place on the elderly. Meanwhile, compared with young crowd, old person's administration chance and kind of using medicine jointly are more, because the summation of many kinds of medicines acts on or cooperative effect, cause the medicine bad reaction take place more easily to the elderly, this becomes the root of the trouble causing the elderly to fall too. Except the intersection of medicine and the intersection of bad reaction and factor, dosage and give medicine time to might influence health of old person to be balanced of drug therapy. If the medicine used exceeds 5 kinds then danger that the patient falls obviously increase. So the elderly are while taking medicines, kind of taking medicine and taking medicine amount that should notice, often measure blood pressure. Changing according to the season in season should be adjusted the taking medicine amount by the doctor, avoid the medicine bad reaction. " the old weekly" Thai letter Wu gentle 2010.12.03


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