Gastric cancer patients also need to follow principles when taking painkillers

People should have principles. In fact, for gastric cancer patients, they should also follow "principles" when taking painkillers. Of course, this principle refers to how to take painkillers correctly.

Taking medicine is far from as simple as we think. It is not all about drinking it down with a glass of water. In order to minimize the damage of the medicine to the body and maximize the efficacy of the medicine, it is necessary to master the correct method of taking medicine, that is, to master the principles of taking medicine.

For patients with gastric cancer, they should know the three principles of taking painkillers, namely oral administration, administration on time, and step-by-step administration, as follows.

Oral administration: Oral administration should be given priority for gastric cancer analgesia because it is convenient, economical, can avoid the inconvenience of invasive administration, and increase the independence of patients. Only when patients are unable to take medications orally should rectal or transdermal non-invasive administration be considered. If the above routes are not suitable or ineffective, consider parenteral administration.

Administering medication on time: Administering medication on time is one of the principles that patients need to follow. Taking medication on time according to the doctor's orders can help patients maintain a constant and effective drug concentration in the body to ensure continuous pain relief. Patients should not suddenly stop taking medication just because the pain disappears.

Stepped drug administration: There is a lot of content about stepped drug administration. Simply put, it means choosing different therapeutic drugs according to the severity of pain, in order from weak to strong, and gradually increasing the dosage according to the severity of pain, or switching to the next step of drugs.