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Patient Information
Be involved in your health care: Speak up if you have questions or concerns about your care.
Share your medical history: Tell a member of your health care team about your past illnesses and your current health condition.
Bring all of your medicines with you: Bring all of your medicines with you when you go to the hospital or to a medical appointment.
Share any food or drug allergies: Tell a member of your health care team if you have ever had an allergic or bad reaction to any medicine or food.
Understand what to do when you go home: Make sure you know what to do when you go home from the hospital or from your medical appointment.

September 4, 2010

Bring all of your medicines with you

Bring all of your medicines with you when you go to the hospital or to a medical appointment.

Some medicines combine with each other in your body and produce bad reactions. To protect you, your health care team must know about everything you take. This includes the drugs you take with a doctor’s prescription. It also includes other medicines you buy, such as:

vitamins
herbs and herbal remedies
food supplements
“over the counter” or non-prescription medicine you buy at the drugstore

When you are going to the hospital or to a medical appointment, put all of your medicines in a bag and take them with you. Always keep your medicine in the bottle it came in.

If you cannot bring the medicines with you, another good thing to do is to keep a list of everything you take. Keep this list up to date and bring this list with you when you go to the hospital or to a medical appointment. Your doctor and pharmacist can help you make this list.