What chronic diseases require long term medication? Do all chronic diseases require long term medica

Basically, you have to take medicine, and the recovery of chronic diseases is a very long process, and some diseases cannot be recovered, but can only be controlled, so the medicine must be taken all the time.

Long-term medication for chronic diseases is irreversible, such as hypertension, or permanent damage caused by loss of function that requires medication supplementation, such as anti-rejection, or physical defects such as allergies, or difficult to **, such as diabetes and gout. Others rarely require long-term medication, and can be recovered by paying attention to diet and exercise.

Chronic asthma, chronic cardiovascular disease. Long-term medication is required.

Generally, all chronic diseases require long-term medication.

Chronic drugs should generally be prescribed once a month, but the dosage and time of the medication should also be prescribed according to the specific situation and the doctor's advice to prevent taking too much mask culture from having a certain impact on the body. For example, when patients have chronic gastritis, they should pay attention to diet for a long time, and can appropriately take some drugs for gastritis to relieve them. In daily life, we should pay attention to eating less oily and greasy food, eat more fresh vegetables and fruits, and drink more millet porridge and egg soup, which have certain benefits for the gastrointestinal tract.

It is necessary to pay attention to maintaining emotional stability, exercising appropriately, and enhancing the body's resistance.

After the drug enters the human body, it must be metabolized and excreted from the body through various complex reactions. The speed at which drugs enter the human body is very fast, such as intramuscular injection, oral or intravenous injection, which is a lot of drugs in the body in a very short period of time. However, the human body wants to metabolize and excrete these drugs from the body, which cannot be completed at once, and it takes much longer than the time for drugs to enter the human body.

The time when the drug enters the body and is completely metabolized and excreted from the body is the time when the drug works in the body.

The concept of half-life.

The body's metabolism and excretion of drugs reduce the concentration of active drugs in the blood and shorten the time for drugs to exert their effects in target organs. The half-life of a drug is generally the time it takes for the maximum concentration of the drug in the plasma (at 100%) to decrease to half (only 50%). For example, if the half-life of a drug is 6 hours, and the drug enters the body without hail, after 6 hours, the patient's blood concentration is only 50% of the maximum value (50% remaining), after another 6 hours, it is reduced by half (25% remaining), and after another 6 hours, it is reduced by half again (the remaining 1 8 is the highest concentration).

In this way, after 5 half-lives, the drug is eliminated by 97% in the body, that is, after 5 half-lives, the drug can be basically eliminated from the body. The concentration of the drug in our body is like this, gradually decreasing over time, to a certain extent, and there is no ** effect. This is the reason why people with chronic diseases have to repeat their medications after a while.

It means that the disease with a relatively long incubation period cannot be seen on the surface, and the ** cycle is also very long, which can be treated, and the patient needs to be confident and positive, so that the success rate is higher.

It refers to a disease in which the body changes very slowly and cannot be cured in a short period of time. Yes, now the medical technology is very developed, and there will be no serious problems.

Chronic disease is a disease that changes very slowly and cannot be improved in a short period of time, and chronic disease can be improved, but it requires a relatively long process, and there is no way to improve it in a short period of time.

So far, the main means of hospital disease** are drugs and surgery, and the application of drugs is much more extensive than surgery compared to chronic diseases**. In terms of chronic diseases, surgery is generally used for serious complications of chronic diseases, rather than for chronic diseases themselves. For example, gangrene amputation surgery for lower limbs caused by diabetes is not diabetes itself; Similarly, stent surgery or coronary artery bypass grafting due to atherosclerosis is not atherosclerosis itself.

The vast majority of patients with chronic diseases may have encountered the following situation in the process of using drugs**, and when you first find a doctor**, the doctor will generally say that you will be prescribed some medicine and come back for a review after a period of time. After a period of time, because the chronic disease is not medicated**, when the patient sees the doctor again, the doctor will generally recommend another drug to try, and this process can be cycled multiple times with different doctors in the same hospital, or it may be repeated multiple times between different hospitals......

Why did so many drugs fail to cure chronic diseases, and what really changed when doctors changed between various drugs? Nothing has actually changed.

Drugs**. 1. Symptomatic**.

Symptomatic refers to the improvement of disease symptoms, in order to eliminate or reduce the patient's uncomfortable state, or to maintain the important vital signs of the patient, for the purpose of buying time for the cause. Nowadays, chronic diseases are basically symptomatic, for example, hypertension is to control the patient's blood pressure, diabetes is to control the patient's blood sugar, and drugs do not fundamentally solve the problem. So we will find that once we have these diseases, the doctor will tell us that we need to take medicine for life.

2. Control the further development of the disease.

** Chronic disease drugs, the second function in the body: is to control the further progression of the disease, and cannot reverse the changes that have taken place in the body. In other words, the drug just does not make the disease worse, and there is no way to recover the part of the drug that has been lost or changed.

For example, diabetes medications, which are currently increasing in incidence year by year**. As far as the current understanding of diabetes goes, people with diabetes will die sooner or later from complications of diabetes, if not from other diseases. Serious complications in the patient, such as blindness, kidney failure, gangrene of the lower limbs, etc., before dying from complications.

When a patient discovers diabetes for the first time, it is not so serious, and once diabetes is discovered, he begins to be active**, why do they die of serious complications of diabetes after 10 or 20 years? This can only illustrate one thing, the drug can't be **diabetes. Drugs only delay the progression of the disease, and without drugs**, these serious complications can occur in pain for 2 to 3 years, and this is the important value of drugs.

However, patients with chronic diseases need **, not just prolonging their lives, so as patients with chronic diseases, we must understand the limitations of the effect of drugs, and any patient who puts his hope completely on drugs will pay a heavy price for such a misunderstanding.

Hematological: chronic anemia, chronic myeloid leukemia, chronic lymphocytic leukemia, chronic lymphoma;

Endocrine system: chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis, hyperthyroidism, hypothyroidism;

Metabolism and nutrition: diabetes, nutritional deficiency diseases, gout, osteoporosis;

Connective tissue and rheumatism: rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, ankylosing spondylitis, Sjögren's syndrome, vasculitis, idiopathic inflammatory myopathy, systemic sclerosis, osteoterastrivian arthritis, respiratory system: chronic obstructive pulmonary emphysema, asthma, chronic cor pulmonale, chronic respiratory failure, silicosis, pulmonary fibrosis;

Circulatory system: chronic heart failure, coronary heart disease, congenital heart disease, hypertension, valvular heart disease, chronic endocarditis, myocardial disease, chronic pericarditis;

Digestive system: chronic gastritis, peptic ulcer, intestinal tuberculosis, chronic enteritis, chronic diarrhea, chronic hepatitis, cirrhosis, chronic pancreatitis, chronic cholecystitis;

Urinary system: chronic nephritis, chronic renal failure, chronic inflammation of the urinary system.

The most important thing for chronic diseases is to pay attention to conditioning, avoid eating, and strictly abide by what should not be eaten, which will have a very obvious effect. If you need to take medicine, you can insist on taking medicine, and at the same time, you can take food supplements, I believe that a good attitude will make everything slowly better, don't worry too much!

It is difficult to find it, he Wu Li has a long incubation period, and it seems to be nothing serious when it is not serious, but this does not mean that it is not buried, and if it is found, it has to go to the doctor early. How to take the medicine depends on what kind of chronic disease it is.