Pituitary tumor is a relatively common benign tumor of the brain. Since many patients have mild symptoms, they choose to take medication for treatment. However, in daily life, patients use medications randomly, thus leading to an increase in symptoms without any decrease.
Some young pituitary tumor patients, in order to avoid the bitter taste, take fruit juice instead of warm water, not knowing that fruit juice, milk, soy milk and tea, although they are all liquid, may interact with drugs and affect the efficacy. A large number of statistical studies show that nearly 50 kinds of drugs will react with fruit juice. It is best to take medication with warm white water to ensure efficacy and medication safety.
In addition, many patients with pituitary tumors find it difficult to swallow large pills, so they take it upon themselves to break them up or dissolve them in water before taking them. In fact, there is a big difference in the time and place where seemingly identical pills take effect. “If the tablets are labeled as slow-release, controlled-release, enteric, etc., they must be taken whole, not broken.” For example, some long-acting controlled-release drugs, the active ingredients will be slowly released in the gastrointestinal tract, which will make the concentration of drugs in the body more smooth, the drug effect is also more durable. If broken to eat, will destroy the original drug design, accelerate the release of drugs, so that the blood concentration in a short period of time rose too high, resulting in danger; will also shorten the duration of action of drugs, affecting the efficacy. The best way to determine whether a pill can be broken open and taken is to read the drug instructions. Another thing is to check whether there are indentations on the tablets. Tablets that can be broken open are generally printed with indentations to facilitate accurate separation.