Medications for chronic conditions

What Are Chronic Conditions?

For those suffering from chronic conditions, they’ll know how debilitating they can become if not properly managed.

Fortunately nowadays there are several medications  which can help. There’s also lots of non pharmacological interventions which can improve quality of life for patients.

We’ve explored chronic illnesses in the article below.

A chronic condition is a long term health condition which cannot be cured; however they can be effectively managed through the use of drugs or other treatments.

Types Of Chronic Diseases

Chronic conditions can affect different systems in the body.

• Some chronic conditions of the lungs and airways can include Asthma or COPD
• Some chronic conditions can affect your joints like Gout.
• There are others that affect your metabolism like Diabetes and conditions like High Blood Pressure (Hypertension), increased blood cholesterol (Hypercholesteremia) or Heart Failure that can affect the heart and blood vessels.

Medications For Chronic Illnesses

Since different chronic conditions affect the body in very different ways, there are different medications for chronic diseases, depending on the condition that one may have.

Medications for conditions like Asthma and COPD include Ventolin, Fostair and Carbocisteine. These medicines help to open the airways and reduce blockage and inflammation, all to allow better breathing.

Other medications can help regulate the body’s metabolism to manage chronic conditions. Metformin regulates glucose metabolism and helps with diabetes, whereas ezetimibe and atorvastatin impact cholesterol metabolism and help with increased blood cholesterol.