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There is no purpose to be a pharmacist if you can’t save you or those near you from side effects of drugs
This is the first thing that is taught to us in pharmacy schools.Being pharmacist, we are mich concerned about rational use of drug which means right dose of right drug for right disease to right patient by right route of administration. Drugs are the life -saving and life-improving agents but to fully exploit their benefits,safe consumption of them is very essential.
Drugs are being used now like food without taking care of side effects associated to them . From over the founter medicines to antibiotics and to controlled and narcotics drugs, the use of drug is rigorous without any rationality. Peope are not taking but eating drugs. Self-medication practice encounters them with number of problems. Taking medicines even when it is not necessary is diminshing their natural property to heal and treat the disorders.
OTC painkillers are considered very safe. People take them whenever they want without knowing they are the leading cause of ulcer. Antimicrobial resistance is simmering just because of vehement use of antibiotics. People are taking CNS depressants to treat anxiety and depression but their continuous and irrations use further worsens the situation.
I am a pharmacist and I personally avoid taking medicine unless it is inevitable. Medicines can treat your one ailment but they are multifunctional. Having affinity for the receptors of same kind at different body loctions,drugs exert many wanted and unwanted actions. So, I prefer using medicines only when it is essential. That is why I haven’t faced any drug induced problem yet.
I have seen many people suffering from drug induced side effects. Some are predicted while some are unpredicted. Predicted reactions aggravate due to carelessness whike taking drugs while non-predicted which prove lethal for life sometimes can’t be predicted before.The most common situation people face is idiosyncratic reactions. These are hypersensitivity reactions which are not known.Some bodies react very different by drug exposure and a set of hypersemsitivity reaction start which worsen the condition to life-threating situation even.
It is responsibility of pharmacist and physican to guide people about safe use of medicines to protect them from their hazardous effect. While providing medicine to patient, they must take full medical profile of patient to see if their any allergy exists. After prescribing medicines, they must be told about every possibility patient may suffer during his course should advise him to timely report if any indiscrepancy occurs.
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