Contents:
- Medical Video: Science Explains How Much Sleep You Need Depending on Your Age
- Rules for taking the correct medication 3 times a day are recommended
- So what if I forget to take the dose?
Medical Video: Science Explains How Much Sleep You Need Depending on Your Age
Each drug, whether from a doctor's prescription or sold freely at a drug store, has its own drinking rules and dosage schedule. This rule must be obeyed so that you can recover quickly. Now when you get a medicine that must be taken 3 times a day (3 × 1), when do you usually drink it? Morning, noon and night? Actually, how to take medicine 3 times a day like this is not right, you know! So, when is the time to take the medicine?
Rules for taking the correct medication 3 times a day are recommended
The purpose of taking medication with the rules of drinking three times a day is Indeed in a day you take medicine three times. However, how to divide the time is not as simple as just "morning, noon, and night".
Reporting from Detik Health, Dr. Anis Kurniawati, PhD, SpMK (K), secretary of the Antimicrobial Resistance Control Committee (KPRA) of the Ministry of Health, how to divide the time taken for taking medicine 3 times a day per 24 hours. That means you have to take medication every 8 hours three times a day.
So, suppose that the first time you take medicine on that day is 8 in the morning. Then you have to take the second dose at 4 pm, and the last dose you should drink at 12 o'clock at night. Not that you take medication following breakfast, lunch and night.
Following the rules of taking medicine 3 times a day correctly is important. Dr. Anis continued, the rules for frequency of taking medicine were made based on the process of absorption of drugs in the body. For certain drugs, the drinking schedule must be really saklek because the concentration dose of the drug must remain in the blood continuously.
Once the concentration of the drug starts to fall, the effectiveness can decrease to combat the disease so you have to take medication again to keep the drug concentration in the blood stable.
So what if I forget to take the dose?
If you forget to take medication, but when you will go to the next time to take medicine, what should be done? Usually you choose to skip just one time taking this medicine. Or some people might choose to add the dose in two.
However, that is the wrong way to take medicine. You may not combine drug doses at one time. Or choose not to take medicine in the second time, and continue to drink at the time specified.
If you forget to take medication at one time, just drink it at that time. For the next time you take medicine, you adjust again with eight hours after, or eight hours the last time you take the medicine.
For example, you take the first medication at 8 am, then you forget you should drink again at 4 in the afternoon. You just remembered after 5 pm Now when I remember, just take medicine at that time. Henceforth, you drink again at eight hours after 4 pm; namely 12 o'clock at night.
