Digestive aids before or after meals

Many drugs are developed to relieve people's pain and some adverse symptoms. The invention of drugs can shorten people's life span and alleviate their symptoms to a certain extent. It is a very direct means of treating diseases. When we have indigestion, we often take some digestive tablets or stomach-strengthening capsules. So should these digestive aids be used before or after meals? Let's take a look.

It should be taken 15 minutes before meals in order to make the drug more effective in the body and reduce the drug's irritation to the gastrointestinal tract. When taking the drug, it should be reasonably arranged before, during or after meals according to the nature and effect of the drug.

Medicines that should be taken before meals generally do not cause much irritation to the stomach. The stomach is empty before meals, so the medicine can be fully absorbed after taking it, which can keep the medicine at an effective concentration and quickly exert its effect. Gastrointestinal smooth muscle antispasmodics such as Jianwei tablets, Tongjingping, Anweiling, 654-2, etc. should be taken about 15 minutes before meals. In addition, astringent and antidiarrheal drugs such as tannic acid protein should also be taken before meals; but the following drugs have obvious irritation to the gastrointestinal tract, so it is best to take them after meals. These drugs include; aspirin, somethacin, phenylbutazone, indomethacin, tribromo tablets, Pasteur mixture, phenytoin sodium, chlorpromazine, etc.; some drugs, such as gastric enzyme tablets, amylase, dilute hydrochloric acid, etc. need to be taken with food to play a timely and maximal digestive effect. For this reason, these drugs should be taken with meals. In order to allow the drug to quickly enter the intestine and maintain a high concentration, some drugs should be taken in the early morning. The clinical use of magnesium sulfate as a laxative is arranged to be taken on an empty stomach in the morning.

Pepsin, amylase, lactase, multi-enzyme tablets, etc. need to be taken shortly before meals so that the medicine and food can be fully mixed and the medicine can take effect in time, which is beneficial to the decomposition and absorption of sugar, fat and protein in food, thereby playing a good digestive role.

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