Dashun Foundation Webinar – A brief talk on smart medication use (淺談用藥精明)

Dashun Foundation Webinar series (大舜慈善基金會 - 「舜」心學堂 線上講座系列) was held on 6 May 2025. The guest speaker was Mr. Peter Suen (孫耀燦藥劑師  明心醫療集團創辦人) and his topic named “A brief talk on smart medication use (淺談用藥精明)”. Peter Suen’s company is HKSQ corporate member. 

Firstly, Mr. Peter Suen introduced some fundamental concepts of medication use including drug allergy, adverse drug reaction (ADR), side effects, undesirable side effects and drug-drug interactions.

Then he briefed different forms of medication such as oral solid dosage forms including tablet, capsules and powder/granules.

Liquid for oral use included liquid, solution, drops, syrup, etc. Sometimes you need to shake the solution because the suspension is not evenly distributed.

For external applications, medication forms had ointments and creams. Is there a rumor that ointments are more effective than creams? This is not true. It depends on your skin condition. If your skin is dry on the surface, you can use ointments to retain moisture. Otherwise, you can use creams to reduce the moisture level of the skin to normal levels.

More direct effect is injections. It covers four types of injection such as intramuscular, subcutaneous, intravenous and intradermal.

The last one is for inhalers. The powder/gas/solution should be suitable weight and size that could be inhale into the airway. If too heavy, all medicine stayed in your tongue.

All forms are related to Pharmacokinetics that including absorption, distribution, metabolism and elimination.

Finally, Peter briefed four purposes of consumption of medicines and they were cure, release symptom, control situation and prevention. 

Lastly, he mentioned some alert issues for use of drugs in elderly.

We had Q&A session at the end. For more detail, please visit Dashun Foundation Webinar Series (「舜」心學堂) and this video would be posted later.

Reference

「舜」心學堂 - 大舜基金 - https://www.dashun.org.hk/zh/dashun-learning-space/

ActiveCareGroup - http://www.activecaregroup.com/

HKSQ corporate members - https://hksq.org/list-of-hksq-corporate-members/

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