This section will give customers helpful tips and info on how to safely use their prescription drugs, especially those used every day for long-term health problems. If you have any questions about how to safely use your medicine or about the specific drugs you take often, please feel free to talk to the licensed pharmacist at your IALOP pharmacy.
Taking your drugs the right way is very important for your health. In fact, many trips to the doctor or hospital can be avoided by sticking to your medication routine and not making common mistakes when using your daily drugs. Here are some tips to help you take your prescriptions safely and effectively.
Because your health problem doesn't go away, it's very important to stick to your therapy - which means taking your medicine exactly as prescribed every single day. In fact, it is estimated to be a $300 billion dollar problem, according to Prescriptions for a Healthy America.
When you take several drugs, they can interact with each other inside your body. Drug interactions can make your drugs work less well, cause unexpected side effects, or make one drug too strong. Pharmacists and doctors are trained to review and spot potential drug interactions, so always talk about all the medicines you take with your healthcare provider or pharmacist.
Surprisingly, your bathroom medicine cabinet is not a good place to keep your prescription drugs. Why? Because the moisture in your bathroom, which comes from taking baths and showers, can harm many medicines and make them work less well.
IALOP and its pharmacies believe that everyone should be able to get safe and affordable medicines. It's our honor to serve our U.S. customers, and as part of the global online market that can give access to people everywhere, to work with other web groups and law enforcement to protect customers and help others use our strict safety standards too.
As we celebrate the 5th anniversary of our Canadian pharmacy group, we are celebrating the lives we improve in both Canada and the U.S. Especially, the lives of Americans, who can safely get the daily drugs they need from our members. The big savings they get - savings of 50-70 percent compared to what they would pay in the U.S. - lets them get the medicines they need at prices they can pay, to live healthier lives.
These days, it's harder to tell what's real and what's not. In a time when it's easy to trick people, customers need to be careful to know what's real and what might not be. This is especially true in the world of online drug sales.
Daily maintenance drugs are prescriptions usually used to treat health problems that are considered chronic or long-term.
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a name used to describe diseases that get worse over time and affect the lungs, like emphysema, chronic bronchitis, and non-reversible asthma, which make it hard to breathe. Symptoms of COPD include coughing, feeling tired, being short of breath and wheezing.
Diabetes is a health problem that causes the level of sugar (glucose) in the body's blood to be higher than normal.
High blood pressure, or hypertension, happens when the pressure in the arteries is too high.
Ulcerative colitis is a type of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) that causes long-lasting inflammation and ulcers in your digestive system.