2023-08-22 04:19:36
Mélanie Gomez / Photo credit: Christine Sandu/Unsplash 06:19, August 22, 2023
In the event of high temperatures, certain medications can prevent or interfere with the thermoregulation of the body, by aggravating, for example, a phenomenon of dehydration. It is important to follow the advice for storing and transporting these medicines and you should not, above all, stop your treatments.
Many molecules affect our natural ability to regulate our body temperature to stay at 37 degrees. If you take anti-depressants, anti-migraine or antiepileptics, be careful, they can limit the formation of sweat. However, sweating is the best way to refresh our body.
You should also be extra vigilant if you are taking treatment for hypertension. Some drugs have a diuretic effect and increase water loss, because that is their role. It is therefore important to drink more.
Do not stop treatment
There are also treatments whose release in the body is disrupted by the dehydration itself. “There is lithium, it is things that we give for morale, digoxin for the heart, certain antiepileptics and also oral anti-diabetics like metformin which is widely used, or statins, drugs for cholesterol. Of course, all these medicines, we don’t stop them”, reports doctor Franck Mignot, general practitioner in Paris.
“But we remain very attentive because we know that these are drugs whose quantity can suddenly increase in the blood when you are dehydrated. And there, we have very painful, even dangerous side effects”, adds the doctor to the microphone d’Europe 1. There is no question of stopping or modifying their dosage without medical advice. Your pharmacist can give you personalized advice.
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