Self Medication: An Unsafe practice.

[gloreal]

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Hello everyone. Welcome to my blog. I am pleased to participate in thus weeks prompt. Self medication is one practice that we have now made a part of our lifestyle. Self medication is not a safe practice as one can end up killing his or herself taking medications that they have little or no idea about and will end up destroying their system.

The reasons we have trained medical personnel’s is so that one can always meet them for consultations and treatments where necessary. One of the days when I was at a friend’s place I saw him looking for drugs and trying to find out which of the drugs was for typhoid and which was for malaria and I could recall asking him who prescribed drugs for you, what is wrong with you? Have you met a doctor or have you run some tests to know what’s wrong with you before taking the drugs? But he answered I am my own doctor and I said wow. I began asking him how he is feeling from his symptoms I advised him to run some test and good enough he did and when the result was out I discovered that he had serious malaria and the drugs he had was a typhoid id drugs and probably after taking that drugs without taking the appropriate drugs and the right dosage you will come to hear words like drugs are not working.

I was really so happy for the knowledge being medical personnel has exposed me to having. Because I was once in this school of thought that each time I am down in health I just go to the drug store and get some drugs without even going to run some test to ascertain the problem and also to ascertain the extent of the problem and the right drugs to take and after the treatment words like the drugs is not working meanwhile were the cause because were personally taking medications on our pwn prescription. One bad experience

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In the cause of self medication was taking a particular drugs not meant for patients that has ulcer but because I took it by myself without a recommendation or prescribtion I know the pains and the discomfort I had until I was rushed to the hospital and after some findings I was tested to have ulcer and the drugs I took had gone to trigger it. So since then before I could take any medication I have to visit the hospital have some check ups done before any medication as self medication is not a safe practice and we all need to desist from it. Our health is our priority so we should be intentional about our Health.

Thanks for reading through

I am @gloreal.

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[marilour]

It has been a pleasure, until another time. Health and Wellness !LUV !HUG !LADY
Hello @gloreal it is a pleasure to meet you through this sharing. Thank you for bringing to exemplary discussion, the situation experienced with a friend and how you took at that time, the proper conduct of not reinforcing his unbridled interest in exercising self-medication. You have made me aware and sensitized me to the negative repercussions of these actions and how the handling of drugs in the wrong hands aggravates the process. Your efforts were influential, conditioned, and determined the behavioral change in him, explicitly released positivity and benefit, and the influence exerted by you redounded so that finally the accurate and pertinent diagnosis was corroborated, which was concomitantly followed by the specialized assessment with the pharmacological prescription according to his needs and particularities. You have been involved in health education and health promotion, warning about the latent risks of self-medication. It is the responsibility of all of us to be proactive and show our assiduous commitment to the promotion of our health and that of our fellow men, in this case, which takes us to the encounter of knowledge, spreading the risks of self-medication. #healthy-bees

marilour

Ha sido un placer, hasta otra ocasión. Salud bienestar.Hola @gloreal, es un placer conocerte a través de este compartir. Gracias por traer a discusión ejemplar, la situación vivida con un amigo y, como lo manejaste , en ese momento, la conducta adecuada de no reforzar su desenfrenado interés por ejercer la automedicación. Me has concienciado y sensibilizado sobre las repercusiones negativas de estas acciones y cómo el manejo de los fármacos en manos equivocadas agrava el proceso. Tus esfuerzos influyeron, condicionaron y determinaron el cambio conductual en él, liberaron explícitamente positividad y beneficio, y la influencia ejercida por ti redundó, de modo que finalmente se corroboró el diagnóstico certero y pertinente, al que concomitantemente siguió la valoración especializada con la prescripción farmacológica acorde a sus necesidades y particularidades. Usted se ha involucrado en la educación y promoción de la salud, alertando sobre los riesgos latentes de la automedicación. Es responsabilidad de todos nosotros ser proactivos y mostrar nuestro asiduo compromiso con la promoción de nuestra salud y la de nuestros congéneres, en este caso, que nos lleva al encuentro del conocimiento, difundiendo los riesgos de la automedicación.

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Thank you so much for the recommendations. I am pleased i was there at the right time to help him taking the right decision concerning his health and to also bring him to light about the dangers of self-medication.