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Self-medication has been the start point of self-recklessness and wrong doings. It is a blunder in medical school and a slap to pharmacology. I had a friend who got sick and was given self administration of malaria drugs and typhoid drugs by his mum, without any test being carried out on him.
In anatomy we call these assumption of treatment diagnosis surface anatomy, he wasn’t getting better, even after a month of constant treatment of malaria, when it became serious he went to the hospital to carry out some tests which showed he was anemic and his pack cell was very low.
Before treatments were administered to find out the cause of the anemia after he spent a month in three different hospitals, he passed away. Then again I had thoughts running through my head, maybe if I had sat him down and given him a friendly advice about the dangers of self-medication, he would have taken life more serious and would still be alive today.
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Please do we have to lose the people most precious to us before we realize and take the dangers of self-medication as one of our major priority.
Administering drugs to yourself because you feel feverish, high body temperature or even pains and assume its malaria is wrong as it could also be anemia, leukemia a new intake of a fetus(pregnancy). And during pregnancy taking of self-medication is dangerous to the health of the fetus, it could result in teratology by environmental teratogens (deformed children).
Most drugs have terrible side effect that most people’s body physiology cannot handle. Creating an awareness of self-medication can/will save millions of lives today tomorrow and even the future depends on this.
However, self-medication could be a negative impact on the lives of younger ones and a danger to personality, individual member of the society.
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