What is the difference between acarbose, miglitol and voglibose?📏📏📏

Acarbose, miglitol and voglibose are commonly used clinical α-glucosidase inhibitors. Although they all belong to the same type of hypoglycemic drugs, there are some differences between them and the choice of drugs is also different.What is the mechanism of action of α-glucosidase inhibitors?α-glucosidase inhibitors reversibly inhibit α-glucosidase. They inhibit the degradation...

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What are the classifications and differences of commonly used antifungal drugs?👀

More patients develop deep fungal infections (invasive fungal infections) due to the increased use of immunosuppressive drugs, antibiotics, organ transplants, and medically invasive procedures. Therefore, the use of antifungal drugs is also increasing and the rational use of antifungal drugs has become important.What are the antifungal drugs for invasive fungal infections?Antifungal...

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What is the difference between the new hypolipidemic agents alirocumab and evolocumab?😵😵😵

A new type of hypolipidemic agent that is a PCSK9 inhibitor developed in recent years. It is effective in lowering low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) levels alone or in combination with statins. Alirocumab and evolocumab (both are injections) are two commonly used PCSK9 inhibitors in clinical practice.How does the body clear LDL-C?LDL-C is transported from surrounding...

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What medicines should not be taken with milk?🥛🥛🥛

Milk is a great natural nutritional supplement. It is also a drink that many people drink every day. Although drinking milk has many benefits for people, it will affect the absorption of drugs when it is taken with many drugs at the same time. It may even interact with those drugs and make them less effective. One of the main reasons is that milk can form a thin film on the...

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How to choose external medicine for skin disease?🙌🙌🙌

Whenever the seasons change, many people will have some skin problems(such as skin allergies, eczema, tinea manuum, tinea pedis, etc.). There are many different types of ointments available at community pharmacies for skin inflammation. Many patients don't know what are the uses and differences of these ointments? This article will introduce the relevant knowledge of topical...

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What should be paid attention to when taking levothyroxine for a long time to treat hypothyroidism?😮😮😮

Levothyroxine is a thyroid hormone drug. It is generally used clinically for the treatment of hypothyroidism, non-toxic goiter, thyroid hormone supplementation after surgical resection of thyroid cancer, and adjuvant treatment of hyperthyroidism with antithyroid drugs. The following will introduce the precautions about the use of levothyroxine.The basic knowledge...

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What are the differences between the 7 angiotensin II receptor antagonists?😵😵😵

Angiotensin II receptor antagonists are one of the commonly used antihypertensive drugs in clinic. They bind to angiotensin II receptors and inhibit the release of active substances that increase blood pressure. It will have the effect of lowering blood pressure. Allisartan, candesartan, irbesartan, losartan, olmesartan, telmisartan and valsartan are seven commonly used...

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What are the indications, dosage and precautions of warfarin?💊💊💊

More and more new oral anticoagulants are being developed. As an older oral anticoagulant, warfarin has disadvantages such as large individual dose variability, narrow therapeutic window, interactions with many drugs and foods, and the need for drug monitoring in patients when used. Warfarin has so many disadvantages. Should it be eliminated from anticoagulation? Although...

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What diseases can vitamin B6 be used for?😵😵😵

In 1926, it was discovered that a lack of a vitamin in mice's diet caused them to induce pellagra. In 1934, a doctor discovered an ingredient that had therapeutic effects on dermatitis in mice and named it vitamin B6. It wasn't until around 1938-1939 that vitamin B6 could be isolated and synthesized. It is a water-soluble vitamin. Pyridoxamine, pyridoxal, and pyridoxine...

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