Yes. Theres a perfect way to take medication that cuts down, even eliminates side effects. Instead of swallowing a pill or liquid, you wear the medicine on your skin. Medication patches look like dime-sized adhesive bandages with a concentration of medication embedded in the gauze. Minute amounts of the medicine seep through the pores in the skin into your bloodstream at a steady rate.
The motion sickness patch is a welcome advance in delivering drugs to your system. With the exception of time-released pills, the medicines you swallow give you a large dose immediately. But as the hours go by, less and less of the drug acts on your system, and, after a few ours, the medicine is used up. Thats not very helpful for long trips. On the other hand, the patch releases no more than the smallest dose you need right from the beginning. And this same small amount continues to be delivered to your system for as long as twenty-four hours. Because of this, the unpleasant side effects some people experience are eliminated.
If youre using a motion-sickness patch, youll have less tendency to get sleepy or nauseous.
Theres also a patch for angina patients. The benefits of a nitroglycerine patch are especially valuable. Angina is caused by the narrowing of the coronary arteries by atherosclerosis. The blood, and thus the oxygen to the heart muscles suddenly decrease. When this happens, a coronary patient feels a recurrent, suffocating pain in the chest and a shooting pain in the left arm.
