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Chapter 145 Three types of medicines cannot be taken with hot water
In daily life, many people often pick up water or drinks when taking medicine, not to mention cold water or hot water, but modern medical research believes that drinking hot water is not suitable for taking the following three medicines.

1. Digestive medicines, such as pepsin mixture, trypsin, multi-enzyme tablets, yeast tablets, etc. The enzyme in this kind of medicine is an active protein, which will solidify and denature after being heated and lose its catalytic effect, which cannot reach the aid purpose of digestion.

2. Vitamin medicines, vitamin C in vitamins are water-soluble preparations, unstable, easy to restore and destroy when heated, and lose their efficacy.

3. Drugs such as cough syrup. The cough medicine is dissolved in the syrup, covering the surface of the inflamed pharyngeal mucosa, forming a protective film, which can reduce the inflammation of the mucosa, block the irritation and relieve the cough. If you take it with hot water , will dilute the syrup, reduce the viscosity, and cannot form a protective film, so it cannot relieve irritation and relieve cough.

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The bitter taste and strange taste of the medicine make many people daunted, so people thought of mixing it with sugar.However, not every drug can be mixed with sugar.Some bitter stomach-invigorating medicines, such as Jianwei Powder and Gentian Rhubarb Mixture, use the bitterness of the medicine to stimulate nerve endings, help digestion reflexively, and promote appetite.If mixed with sugar, it will reduce or even lose the therapeutic effect of the drug.In addition, drugs such as isoniazid, paracetamol, and acetaminophen should not be taken together with sugar, because sugar can inhibit the absorption and utilization of these drugs in the body and reduce the efficacy of the drugs; cortisone drugs can increase liver glycogen and increase blood sugar. If you take sugar at the same time, it will increase liver glycogen and blood sugar and cause diabetes.

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