How long does it take for drug side effects to go away?

As the saying goes, all medicines are poisonous. Treating diseases with drugs is actually a form of fighting poison with poison. It is possible that after one disease is cured, it will bring other diseases to the body. Therefore, doctors will advise patients to stop taking the medicine for a period of time. This is to eliminate the side effects of taking the medicine. So how long will it take for the side effects of various treatment drugs to be eliminated?

1. Based on the clinical needs of most people , we analyze common situations and tell you when to stop taking which medications. Although many drugs in nephrology have obvious side effects, you have to stop taking them slowly! Situations where medication discontinuation is necessary include:

1. What is Jinshuibao when taking hormones or immune preparations. "Comfort" drugs such as nephritis recovery tablets can be discontinued;

2. After taking antihypertensive drugs, some patients' blood pressure drops excessively, to below 90/60, and the antihypertensive drugs should be reduced or stopped;

3. For patients with minimal lesions, immunosuppressants can be discontinued after the condition stabilizes, but hormones should not be discontinued;

4. The white blood cell count decreases significantly during medication, especially after taking cyclophosphamide. It is best to stop taking the medication for a period of time.

5. If the blood calcium level is abnormally high after taking calcium supplements, you can stop taking calcium supplements;

6. If nephrotoxic drugs cause kidney disease or aggravate kidney disease, be sure to stop taking the drugs at any time;

7. If taking hormones causes vision loss and the urine protein level is not very high, you can stop taking hormone drugs.

For commonly used hormones and immunosuppressants, the conversion of urine protein to negative is not the most important sign of stopping the medication. What we need to focus on is whether the kidney cell function has recovered. At this time, the recovery of kidney function can be judged through a series of renal fibrosis tests and urine protein component tests.

Second, there are some situations where you cannot stop taking the medicine:

1. If urine protein turns negative after taking Chinese medicine, you need to continue taking the medicine for more than half a year;

2. Membranous nephropathy: the treatment cycle is relatively long. The effect is obvious when hormones or immunosuppressants are used. Even if there is no immediate effect, you must persist in taking medication, which requires a 3-month medication observation period;

3. For hormones, the dosage needs to be gradually reduced, and the medication should not be stopped midway unless side effects are obvious;

4. Patients with nephrotic syndrome must continue to take antihypertensive drugs even if their blood pressure does not rise;

5. Generally, patients with purpura take dipyridamole and benazepril hydrochloride for more than two years.

In addition, men can take the lowest effective dose of short-acting hormones (prednisone, methylprednisolone, etc.) during pregnancy preparation, while pregnant women taking hormones often have adverse effects on the development of the fetus.