The Taiwan health food market has exceeded NT$1,000, but pharmacists remind that using some health foods and drugs together may harm health. There was a diabetic patient who had poor blood sugar control and had no effect after changing the medicine. Later, he found that he put the ingredient powder into breakfast every day, but the ingredient increased blood sugar, which caused the blood sugar-lowering medicine to fail to exert its effects, which did not achieve health care effects, and it almost harmed health. Shen Caiyang, spokesperson of the pharmacist association, said that the Ministry of Health and Welfare has conducted a survey and said that more than 80% of the elderly have one chronic disease, and more than three chronic diseases are 50% of them, and they have to swallow a lot of medicine every day. Although most patients know that Chinese and Western medicines cannot be used in conjunction, they neglected health foods.
Chang Hongjie, director of the Drug Administration Department of Zhenxing Hospital, said that people think that eating only a little health food may affect the efficacy of the medicine, but eating healthy food every day will have a certain concentration, which will make the efficacy of the medicine worse or become toxic. There are also people who misunderstand that it is not bad to eat medicines and health foods, but after the medication is given separately, it will be in the blood. If the two are too early, they will "meet" and it is impossible to avoid it.
Liu Kangsheng, a pharmacist at Lesheng Hospital, said that it is common for patients to go to the hospital with large and small bags. Once you turn it open, you can find a variety of Chinese and Western medicines and health foods. However, after some health foods and drugs are combined, antagonistic effects or toxicity may occur. Take the most powerful apricot as an example. Because it has the function of improving blood vessel obstruction in the brain, if the patient takes anticoagulant agents such as aspirin, the bleeding risk will increase greatly, and the blood flow may continue when injured.
Shencai ginger is supplemented, and red koji has the effect of lowering blood lipids. However, if patients with hyperlipidemia are combined with lowering blood lipids, the side effects of the drugs will be enhanced by the addition of the effects, which may damage the liver and kidneys and cause brown urine. Chang Hongche also said that if people who are keen on probiotics to adjust their digestive function, take antibiotics due to colds, it will inhibit the effect of probiotics. If people with poor immunity and stay in the ward, eating probiotics will increase the risk of infection. "It's still bacteria!"
In fact, not only health foods, but also ordinary noodles and snacks may affect the efficacy of medicine. Chang Hong said that she had met a patient with hypertension and could not control his blood pressure. Later, she found out that he liked to eat crispy dry noodles, but poured all the flavoring powder into it. Eating too much will cause the blood pressure to rise. It was not until she stopped eating noodles that the blood pressure was controlled. "These are unexpected negligence."
Shen Caiqing said that the usage rate of Chinese herbal medicine in Taiwan is more than 60%, but the Chinese people have not done a good job in Chinese and Western medicine education. It is safe to use Chinese medicine as food and health food as medicine. And the efficacy of the medicine is not effective, and the postmortem disease is to waste more health care resources. Chang Hongchen said helplessly that if a patient feels that taking medicine is ineffective, he usually stops the medicine, rather than other foods or supplements that affect the efficacy of the medicine.
