Is it better to take the medicine before or after meals?

Usually there will be reminders on the prescription for taking the medicine "before meals" or "after meals", telling the patient the time to take each medicine. Please be sure to follow these instructions, as this is very important. If you take medication as directed, it will start working the moment you take it. It is very important to take a specific amount of medication at a specific time. So be sure to take the medicine at the right time.

Before meals refers to about thirty minutes before eating, and after meals refers to thirty minutes after finishing eating. What should you do if you don’t eat? At this time, please take "time" as the primary consideration. In other words, even if you have not eaten, please take the medicine thirty minutes after you are scheduled to finish eating.

As for the idea that “if you take medicine without eating, your stomach will be upset,” you don’t actually need to worry too much. The time specified by the doctor has a lot to do with the condition of your gastrointestinal tract. Simply put, if the doctor wants to reduce the impact of stomach acid on the drug, he will specify that the drug should be taken "before meals" when there is not much food in the stomach. If it is a drug that puts a burden on the stomach and intestines, it will be specified that it should be taken "after meals." However, there is something more important than the time you take the medicine, which is the number of times you take the medicine. Please be sure to take the medicine three times a day at the time specified by the doctor, "before meals" and "after meals".

So, you have to take the medicine even if you don’t eat. In addition, if you forget to take medicine before a meal, you do not have to wait until the next meal to take it, you can just take it after the meal.

What matters is not when you take your medicine, but how many times a day you take it. Some confused patients always forget to take medicine within the prescribed time. In order to meet the number of times to take medicine, they take the amount they forgot to take at one time. This is very wrong. You must never do the behavior of "forgetting to take medicine this time, take two doses next time"! The result of this may be that the disease is not cured, but more serious side effects occur!

Disease prevention starts with small things. In daily life, we should balance our diet, strengthen physical exercise to improve our body's immunity, maintain adequate sleep, and develop a good work and rest schedule. This will be beneficial to our health. Everyone must take care of their bodies. If you want to be healthy, you need to pay more attention to diet regulation in your daily life. You should pay attention to eating more light foods.