When you have some complicated diseases that are prone to relapse, or diseases that cannot be completely cured but can only be controlled, you must not stop taking the medicine.
1. Complex, easy to relapse after the cure, or although the symptoms can be intermittently relieved, but can not be completely cured. For example, chronic gastritis, gastric ulcer, chronic hepatitis, tuberculosis, chronic bronchitis, various types of arthritis. These diseases should be careful to stop the drug, after the cure, in order to consolidate the efficacy of treatment, may need to do a period of maintenance therapy. There are some diseases that require medication during the attack period, and can be discontinued during the remission period.
2. Can not be cured, can only control the condition, belong to the need for “lifelong medication” of the disease. For example, hypertension, diabetes, various cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, hypothyroidism, some of the more serious mental epilepsy, psychosis and so on. These diseases require long-term medication, the drug can not be stopped at will.
The significance of doing so is to slow down the progression of the disease, alleviate the symptoms and prevent the occurrence of serious diseases. Medications for these disorders should be taken under a doctor’s supervision and monitored regularly.