| every month that goes by, one of the big drug | | | | number of different physicians and healthcare |
| companies unveils another wonder-cure that can | | | | proffesionals - each one prescribing a different |
| lower cholesterol, treat depression, or help us lose | | | | medication or nutritional supplement. However, the |
| weight. In additon, a gaggle of natural health | | | | risk of drug vitamin interactions can be reduced if |
| companies promise herbal alternatives and vitamin | | | | you take care of few important things such as: |
| nutritional supplements that can replace | | | | 1. Asking your pharmacist, doctor, or other health |
| prescription medication. Yet as the number, and | | | | professional to check any interaction between |
| cost, of prescription drugs and nutritonal | | | | your prescribed medicines and your vitamin |
| supplements increases, how come the health of | | | | nutritional supplements( |
| the nation is getting worse? Heart disease, | | | | 2. Learning the names of the medicines and |
| depression and obesity are all rising despite the | | | | nutritional supplements you’re taking and |
| increase, and supposed effectiveness, of the | | | | knowing the effect of each one upon your body. |
| pharmaceutical’s products. And if nutritonal | | | | 3. Making a full list of all the nutritional |
| supplements are supposed to balance our | | | | supplements, vitamins, over-the-counter drugs, |
| body’s vitamin and mineral content then | | | | and homeopathic remedies you have and update |
| why do we still feel ill after taking them? | | | | it after each visit to the doctor. |
| It is a modern phenomonen than we are very | | | | 4. Getting your prescription filled out the same |
| simply taking too many medicines. These | | | | pharmacy so that the pharmacist may be better |
| medicines not only produce harmful side-effects, | | | | able to notice any possible drugivitamin |
| they can also cause vitamin depletion and actually | | | | interactions. |
| harm our health. It’s possible to replace | | | | 5. Not taking a new medicine without discussing |
| these lost vitamins through nutritional | | | | the side effects with your doctor, pharmacist, or |
| supplements, but the one-size-fits all multivitamins | | | | healthcare professional. |
| sold in grocery stores may not have the right | | | | 6. Ensuring that each doctor knows the medicines |
| balance for your particular condition. Taking these | | | | prescribed by others, if you are consulting more |
| nutritional supplements may, in turn, affect the | | | | than one doctor. |
| action of your medication in the body. So | | | | Besides, the above given precautions, drug vitamin |
| medicines help with our health concerns but | | | | interactions can be reduced if care is taken about |
| deplete the vitamins in our body, and nutritional | | | | keeping your medication and supplements |
| supplements replace those lost vitamins but can | | | | properly. Some things to keep in mind are: |
| stop the medication from working. How to break | | | | 7. Different medicines or nutritional supplements |
| free from this visious circle? By taking control and | | | | should not be kept in same container as it can |
| being informed about your personal health and | | | | cause interaction between them. |
| your vitamin nutrtional needs( | | | | 8. All medicines and nutritional supplements have |
| Ways of Preventing Drug-Vitamin( Interactions | | | | an expiry date (or should do). Don’t take |
| Drug vitamin interactions mostly affect psychiatric | | | | expired medicine or nutritional supplements. |
| patients, elderly people, and individuals who had | | | | 9. Always consult your doctor or physician if you |
| been recently hospitalized. These groups are more | | | | decide to stop taking a certain medication to begin |
| likely to be taking heavy medications for more | | | | a course of nutritional supplements instead. |
| than one health concern and so the risk of | | | | 10. If any side effect or problem is experienced |
| interactions is much higher. Drug vitamin | | | | due to a medication or nutritional supplement, |
| interactions may also affect people who like to | | | | consult your doctor immediately. |
| “shop around” and consult a | | | | |