A Comprehensive Review: Drug Interactions and Polypharmacy

Abstract

The aim of our study is to identify the drug interactions due to polypharmacy. We tried to identify the possible risk factors, outcomes and management of polypharmacy especially in older patients. A medication interaction happens when the impact of one medication is changed by the presence of another. Many interfacing drugs can be controlled securely without making any mischief to the patient through cautious checking and dose change. Notwithstanding, prescriptions should possibly be regulated together if the outcomes are perceived and the danger of mischief is exceeded by the helpful benefits. Polypharmacy is portrayed as "the utilization of various meds or potentially the combination of a greater number of prescriptions than are clinically prescribed, speaking to superfluous medication use." Polypharmacy includes the number of meds taken by the patient, the provision of at least one wrong meds, or a combination of both, which can expand the danger for adverse medication occasions (ADEs), underutilization of drug, and redundancy of medication. Polypharmacy Management is an entire framework approach that upgrades the consideration of multimorbid patients through amplifying advantage while decreasing the dangers of improper polypharmacy. Prescription review and assessment is an intercession that should be ordinarily performed by clinical drug specialists to improve medicine harmlessness and drug therapy results, and guarantee ideal prescription use. There should be a proper and strong role and communication of Physicians, Pharmacists, and Patients in society, especially in developing countries. The potential risk factors should be identified like dietary factors interact with the drug therapy sothat adverse reactions can be identified and avoided.