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
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.
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