Seniors and medicine

With age, there is a natural change in the body. This can affect the effect of your medicine and the adverse reactions you experience. As a senior, you are often more sensitive to medicine. Therefore, you may experience that you have more or stronger adverse reactions.

As a senior, you may experience that you have more illnesses. This may mean that you need several different kinds of medicine. Different types of medicine can have an impact on one another by either amplifying or decreasing the effect. This also applies to non-prescription medication and natural remedies. You should always tell your doctor what non-prescription and natural remedies you are taking.

You may also experience that medicine which you have taken for years suddenly gives you new or stronger adverse reactions. However, it can be difficult to distinguish the adverse reactions from signs of age or illness. If you experience that your medicine is not working as it usually does or it gives you adverse reactions, you must contact your doctor.