Self medication

[kc6729]

Welcome to my prompt this week.
This topic is really a good one that will teach many of us plenty thing's and the good and bad things about self medication..

Self medication is not ok for us unless you are a medical practitioner that knows the dosage on the administration of some medication.

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Taking self medication without the prescription of a doctor or midwife is very bad because it might lead the person taking the medication to abusing of the drug and when drugs are abused it can lead to so many things and these things are as follows:
Destroying of the liver function and when there is a destruction in the liver there will be problem in detoxification and this will lead to accumulation of toxin in the blood and this will cause what is called acidosis in the blood thereby leading the individual to having hypoxemia..
Another problem that can result from self medication is death and this is the most dangerous aspect of it.
When and individual don't know the particular dose of a drug, taking the over dose of it can lead to shutting the heart and other body parts down entirely thereby leading to death..

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Self medication is very bad
I was in the hospital one day one woman was brought to the hospital and the woman was having seizure, so after taking the history of the woman, it was observe that the woman took over dose of her medication due to self medication, this happened that the woman was convulsing seriously and was vomiting some white thing from her mouth.
If not for the intervention of the doctor and nurses with other medical professionals this woman could have lost her life..
SELF MEDICATION IS VERY BAD SO LET'S TAKE CAUTION OF IT.

Thanks for reading my blog @kc6729 i really appreciate.

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Comments

[daverick]

Self-medication is a risk and very bad. It's so unfortunate that we don't take it serious because somehow many get away with the act, without some sort of impact on them.
Hope we always seek medical attention before taking drugs to avoid this problem.

[kc6729]

Thanks very much

[cajiro]

I think the risk of self-medication is more latent for certain minor illnesses that we think we can handle. Therefore, whatever our illness, we should always turn to those who have the knowledge to give us the best guidance 🙂

[kc6729]

Thanks

[depressedfuckup]

If someone takes drugs to the point of overdosing, I would be tempted to classify that under abuse and not self medication. That us just too extreme . I’ve only seen cases of ODing in movies, but I imagine it must’ve been a horrific sight to witness.

Thank you very much for sharing

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[kc6729]

Thanks for reading ok

[nhaji01]

Actually, many people die from self medication but we tend to attribute it to other factors.

We need to know what is wrong before we can even take a drug for it. You can’t be taking a wrong drug for a wrong problem.

[kc6729]

Exactly 💯

[jjmusa2004]

Even medics seek medical care when the need arises and thus, nobody is immune to seeking professional care for the slightest of medical ailments

[nsigo1]

Let's say no to self medication, it's not good