Self-medication shouldn't be appreciated

Everyone knows it well that health is wealth, and everyone wants to be healthy, although everyone is not ready to work to keep themselves healthy. Sometimes we can see even if we take care of ourselves properly and we need medicine to recover, and that's normal.

In recent times, people seem very smart, and they have knowledge a little through the help of technology. We can easily search about a medicine online and figure out the details of a medicine. I think it's good to know more about medicine, but there is a risk of applying it in any case because I need to keep it in mind that we are not experts in that field and we don't know how many doses we need to take for our health recovery. That's the problem of the current generation of people because some people think they are experts in every field, which is not right. Let's talk a little about our senior people. Although they don't trouble themselves to know more about medicine, they have the belief that a single medicine can be applicable for all similar cases. I have seen many people who suggest others take the same medicine that worked for them. The health condition of everyone is not the same, and the same doses of medicine are not applicable to others. Applying the medicine to others can be risky even if the symptoms of the disease remain the same.

Does it mean self-medication is bad? If someone asks my opinion, then I must say that it's a bad practice mostly. But it has an advantage within a limit. Every time our illness is not serious. Fever, cough, and similar types of diseases are very natural. As well as I know who doesn't need to take high doses for those diseases. For those cases, I think self-medication can be effective, and it can help us to save some money. I never encourage anyone to do self-medication when the case becomes sensitive, and without any kind of confirmation, self-medication can be life-threatening. In my case, I really get sick, and for headaches or pain, I don't take any kind of medicine because I love to recover naturally, and only in cases of fever do I take some normal medicine. If I became seriously ill, then I must go to the doctor for a consultation, and there is no doubt about it. My parents and grandmother also do self-medication, but till now nothing bad has happened to it, and it's about a serious issue. I never allowed them to do self-medication. I can understand the risk, and my siblings also play a great role in it. But I can share an incident that happened with one of my relatives. The incident was very simple but paid a huge price for it. I can't remember clearly about the incident because I was a kid in the time but I can remember what happened.

One of my relatives were pregnant and she was facing some pain in her body. Rather than make constant with a doctor she asked about some kind of pain killers or similar type medicine from another relatives. She has taken the medicine and after few hours her body condition became worse and she was hospitalized immediately. Unfortunately the situation was so bad that she lost her baby and she also faced major injury for what she needed to stay in hospital for 20 days. I don't know what kind of medicine she has taken but it cost a life and additionally the expenses of hospital was not less either.

I know I don't know everything in details about the incident but I can clearly say that it was happened because of self-medication and taking the wrong medicine.

I know self medication is not deathly or life threatening every time but we need to keep it in mind that danger comes sometimes and one time is enough to give us the suffering for whole life. Do you think it's necessary unless it's a minor case.