The official released "Top Ten Medication Tips for the Public". Are you aware of these medication misunderstandings?

“What is a chronic disease? What are its characteristics?”

“What are the chronic diseases?”

"I've been taking medicine, so why do I need to have regular follow-up visits?"

“As a patient with a chronic disease, what should I do?”

Recently, the State Food and Drug Administration issued the "Top Ten Medication Tips for the Public" to remind the public to avoid medication misunderstandings. Let us interpret them together.

Chronic diseases cannot just be treated by hoarding medicines.

Don’t hesitate to have regular follow-up visits!

1. What are chronic diseases? What are their characteristics?

First of all, chronic disease is not a disease, but a type of disease!

The full name is "chronic non-communicable diseases", which is a general term for a class of non-communicable diseases that have a long onset, hidden onset, lack of definite evidence of infectious biological causes, and once the disease occurs, the condition is protracted and difficult to heal.

2. What diseases are included in chronic diseases? Which are the most common in life?

Chronic diseases include many types of diseases. Let’s take a brief look at them through a mind map:

3. Why do I need to have regular check-ups if I am still taking medicine?

Some patients with chronic diseases think that they feel good after taking the medicine and they can just keep taking it. For convenience, they just stock up on medicine and take it instead of going for regular follow-up visits and check-ups as required.

In fact, even if some chronic disease treatment drugs can be prescribed for a longer period of time, it is necessary to observe changes in the condition. If patients take medication on their own for a long time without returning for follow-up visits, and fail to adjust the treatment plan in time, it is often easy to delay the disease.

4. What should you do as a patient with a chronic disease?

Taking the treatment of type 2 diabetes as an example, one of the main purposes of controlling blood sugar stability is to prevent and delay complications.

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As the disease progresses, if mild or moderate complications occur, it is necessary to control risk factors such as blood sugar, blood pressure, and blood lipids, and treat the pathogenesis; if severe complications occur, it is necessary to go to specialized departments such as ophthalmology, kidney, neurology, heart, and vascular surgery for targeted diagnosis and treatment to prevent severe complications from causing disability or death.

Therefore, patients with type 2 diabetes should have regular follow-up visits for relevant examinations, and those with poor blood sugar control need to increase the frequency and items of examinations. Only through standardized management, including diet control, exercise, blood sugar monitoring, diabetes self-management education and drug treatment, can we achieve comprehensive blood sugar reduction, control or delay disease progression, prevent complications and improve quality of life.

Therefore, patients with chronic diseases should not only stockpile and take medicines, but also have regular follow-up visits for monitoring, receive education and follow-up. Don't be bothered by it.

Source: Banan District Second People's Hospital

Review experts: Zhang Zhenghong, Du Guo

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