{"id":4494,"date":"2024-06-24T16:47:38","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T20:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/happierathome.com\/dev_staging\/?p=4494"},"modified":"2024-06-24T16:47:38","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T20:47:38","slug":"important-questions-to-ask-your-pharmacist-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/happierathome.com\/dev_staging\/important-questions-to-ask-your-pharmacist-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Important Questions to Ask Your Pharmacist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Odds are that as a person ages, he or she will need to take medications and the number of the medications may increase as the age increases.\u00a0A thorough understanding of medications can help maximize the benefits while avoiding side effects or additional problems.\u00a0 Be sure to ask your pharmacist the following questions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" start=\"1\">\n<li><strong>What is the medicine supposed to do?<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Understand when the desired effects will occur and contact your doctor if it is not working.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>How long will it take for it to start working?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" start=\"2\">\n<li><strong>How should I use the medicine?<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Know whether to take on an empty stomach or with meals.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Special instructions (Ex\/ rinsing your mouth after a steroid inhaler to avoid thrush and hoarseness).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Avoiding certain foods or alcohol.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Ex\/ Grapefruit juice can cause too much or too little of a drug to enter your body (Some statins to lower cholesterol, blood pressure, antiarrhythmics, antihistamines).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" start=\"3\">\n<li><strong>What side effects should I watch for?<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Know what to do if they occur and how to lessen the side effects (Ex\/ eating with NSAIDS to avoid stomach problems).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" start=\"4\">\n<li><strong>Is this medication safe to take with my other medications?<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Are there any interactions that would contraindicate taking them together?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Be sure to inform the doctor of your supplements as well (Drug interaction checker:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/reference.medscape.com\/drug-interactionchecker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/reference.medscape.com\/drug-interactionchecker<\/a>\u00a0).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Important Questions to Ask Your Pharmacist\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rj77YhJAK_s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Odds are that as a person ages, he or she will need to take medications and the number of the medications may increase as the age increases.\u00a0A thorough understanding of medications can help maximize the benefits while avoiding side effects or additional problems.\u00a0 Be sure to ask your pharmacist the following questions:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4495,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - 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