Potential Dangers When Multiple Prescription Pills Are Taken All At One Time
* Taking multiple prescription pills all at one time can create unnecessary dangers when medications are not reviewed for interactions, timing, food requirements, or duplicate ingredients.
* A common sense failure occurs when people assume that if each medication is safe individually, they must also be safe when taken together. Pills may interact, increase side effects, interfere with each others absorption, or cause an unintended combined side effect.
* Another failure is ignoring instructions from the doctors and pharmacists or failing to ask whether medications, including over-the-counter drugs and supplements, can safely be taken at the same time.
* Common Sense says that more medications require more attention, communication, and organization, not simply swallowing everything together and hoping for the best.
NO COMMON SENSE
ANALYZE THE EXAMPLE
* Which supports and barriers were in play?
* What were the dynamics?
* Who, or What, won the Tug-of-War?, Why?
* Discuss the outcome with your friends and family.
* Use Post #4 as a reference for the relationships and dynamics between supports and barriers.
