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High blood fat or dyslipidemia for a long time will affect many dangerous complications such as cardiovascular disease, obesity, diabetes. Therefore, proper and timely treatment is essential. So when blood fat is low, should I take medicine again? Follow the following article to get the answer.1. Should I take medicine to lower blood fat?
First of all, you have gone to the doctor and have been prescribed medicine to treat high blood fat, you need to follow the instructions of the treating doctor. Like drugs to treat other conditions, drugs have the effect of lowering blood fat but can also cause side effects. Therefore, before prescribing the drug, your doctor will order you to do blood tests. If blood fat is slightly higher than normal, it is not necessary to treat with drugs immediately. Instead, doctors often prescribe treatment with diet, increased exercise... and scheduled follow-up appointments, so that the doctor can assess whether your high blood fat status can be improved or not. . If the above method does not work, then treatment with drugs is required.
On the other hand, the majority of patients do not have an increase in total blood fat, but only an increase in toxic fats such as triglycerides, so they are prone to other diseases such as myocardial infarction, hypertension. Triglycerides are fats derived from the liver that are synthesized from the wrong response (even due to the patient's extreme fasting leading to a lack of energy). Therefore, the more you fast, the easier it is to increase your triglycerides or have a temporary decrease, then increase again.
Therefore, it is necessary to prescribe treatment with blood lipid-lowering drugs (after having ultrasound results and blood test results). The treating doctor will not prescribe blood lipid-lowering drugs for you when the readings are within the normal range.
You need to pay attention not to use another medicine for a long time without periodic re-examination. The follow-up examination plays an important role for the doctor to check the condition of the disease after a period of taking the drug. At the same time, the treating doctor will take measures to adjust the drug and the appropriate dose according to your medical condition to effectively lower blood fat.
2. How to take effective and standard blood lipid-lowering drugs?
When you are experiencing mild dyslipidemia, without diabetes, coronary heart disease, high blood pressure, etc., you do not need to use lipid-lowering drugs right away, but you need to change your birth habits. active, lifestyle, by:
Changing daily nutrition according to the guidance of medical professionals; Increase physical activity; Try to quit harmful habits (smoking, drinking, etc.). After following a diet and physical activity for a while, but the high blood fat test results still do not drop to the desired level, you need to use the drug treatment exactly as prescribed by your doctor.
How to use drugs to treat high blood fat as follows:
The fibrates should be used during or after the main meal. Statin drugs should be taken before or after meals. While being treated with lipid-lowering drugs, it is still advisable to strictly maintain the recommended daily diet and exercise. It is necessary to limit the consumption of animal fat and foods containing a lot of cholesterol; should eat more green vegetables, fruits, olive oil, whole grains, nuts, legumes and fish... Do not eat grapefruit while taking statin drugs, because grapefruit juice has contains a chemical that can bind to enzymes that break down statins in the digestive system. Drugs such as clarithromycin, amiodarone, cyclosporine, itraconazole, gemfibrozil, saquinavir, ritonavir... can interact with statin drugs, increasing the risk of unwanted side effects.
3. Some other notes when using lipid-lowering drugs
When you are using the drug, you may feel unusual symptoms such as muscle aches and pains, muscle weakness (due to the side effects of rhabdomyolysis, especially, sports people are more likely to experience signs and symptoms). this). In addition, you may experience swelling, heat, redness, pain, and stiffness in certain tendons, especially the heel tendons (due to newly discovered tendon damage side effects, stop using the drug and consult a doctor). Because all lipid-lowering drugs have side effects, people who are newly suspected of having mild hyperlipidemia should not arbitrarily buy drugs for treatment to avoid complications. after being examined, diagnosed and prescribed by a physician. Only stop using the drug, then stop using the drug. With the question of whether to take the drug again to lower blood fat, the answer is that the patient needs to follow the doctor's instructions and have a follow-up appointment on time. Blood lipids are properly lowered to the normal index, the doctor can appoint the patient to stop taking the drug and build a healthy diet and physical activity to protect health.
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