http://www.practiceofpharmacy.com/health-databases-where-are-they Thu, 29 Jul 2010 10:52:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.practiceofpharmacy.com/health-databases-where-are-they/comment-page-1#comment-1023 admin Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:03:22 +0000 http://www.practiceofpharmacy.com/health-databases-where-are-they#comment-1023 "Take before meals" is a lazy short cut way of saying, I believe, that <br /> the drug has no bad side effects on an empty stomch and is therefore <br /> most effect <br /> if taken that way. From my experience a doctor (Alopath) would say  it <br /> doesn't really matter but of course it does, at least a bit. If you <br /> take it right before eating it will soon be mixed with the food and <br /> some of it might go down the tube so to speak instead of into the blood <br /> undiluted. But taking it just before a meal is better than just after <br /> and probably be better than waiting until 2 or 3 hrs. after, (since by <br /> then it is getting close to 1 hr. before the next meal. <br /> "Take before meals" is a lazy short cut way of saying, I believe, that
the drug has no bad side effects on an empty stomch and is therefore
most effect
if taken that way. From my experience a doctor (Alopath) would say  it
doesn’t really matter but of course it does, at least a bit. If you
take it right before eating it will soon be mixed with the food and
some of it might go down the tube so to speak instead of into the blood
undiluted. But taking it just before a meal is better than just after
and probably be better than waiting until 2 or 3 hrs. after, (since by
then it is getting close to 1 hr. before the next meal.

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