Thread by @Tobenna__

Just a simple reminder;

1. Don’t use alcohol of any kind to take your drugs.
2. Don’t use fruit juice to take your drugs.
3. Don’t use soda drinks to take your drugs.
4. Don’t wrap your drugs in hot eba or fufu to take it.
5. Don’t use milk to take your antibiotics.

RT

Very important.

Except otherwise recommended by your healthcare provider, use room temperature water to take your drugs.

Using milk to take antibiotics (eg Ciprofloxacin) can make them ineffective. It is advisable you don’t use milk or diary products to take your antibiotics. If you are to take milk space it atleast 3hrs before/after taking your antibiotics.

Wrapping your drugs in hot eba can do three things to it
1. The hot eba can denature the drug especially for heat sensitive drugs.
2. The eba can delay the onset of action of the drug as the eba needs to get broken down first before the drugs gets broken down. Now-

-this may lead to
3. Accumulation of drug in system as you might end up taking the next dose while the others hasn’t even been fully broken down in the system. This can lead to increased side effects of the drug.

Don’t use fruit juice to take your medications especially when it comes to malaria medications. Using fruit juice like grape juice to take your malaria medications may worsen it side effects.

Using fruit juice rich in vitamin C can dampen the effects of Artemether/lumefantrine antimalarials.

Using alcohol to take your medications is a total NO.

It can worsen the side effects of the drugs also together with the drugs it can weigh in on the liver, this can result in harm or even damage to the liver.

Don’t use soda to take your drugs. Soda drinks are carbonated, they can react with the drugs, they can heighten the effects of the drugs this goes hand in hand with its side effects. Also they may react with the drug making it ineffective.

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