Hello Everyone in this Great community
I hope this post met you all well
Health is wealth, you wouldn't know how much your health is very important until you fall sick, and then you start fully appreciating what God have given you,
Lemme tell you the truth about having good health and being in the right mental health,
Whenever there is Good Health then there is hope, or lemme put it as whenever there is life there is possibility or potential to do whatever we want.
This is why whenever we fall sick or have some type of illness, even our best food becomes our enemies, to move around becomes a problem and then there is General discomfort and Body weakness.
The Good news is that whenever we fall sick we can easily get a cure to some of the sickness, thanks to God for Mother nature.
There are herbs and medicinal plants that help to cure them, I remember the last time I traveled home,my mum is a big fan of herbal medicines, she prefer we use herb whenever we are not feeling well,I can even identify some herbs and what the can be used to heal or cure, although these herbal options are quite helpful, they also pose some health threat too because there is no formal way to check the dosages, and how to prescribe medications through them.
Due to this lack of Dosage and prescription many people try as much as possible to avoid taking herbal medicines, when you overdose you might likely have some complications like damaged liver or dysfunctional medicine effects.
This is why modern days medicine comes to play.
All thanks to the Modern Technology, we now have different tablet, pills, even oral Medicine that are specified for different types of illness.
They are all carefully encased in capsules and pills just to be taken in a particular order so as to get the best results.
These medications are supposed to be taken according to the instructions of the Medical experts, whether Doctors, Nurse, surgeon, dentist e.t.c.
Depending on what the illness is,you have to collect prescription for them.
They ( the Medical professionals) Know better, so you take the instructions from them.
Now whenever you either Don't take instructions from medical experts or professional, on the medicine you take, that is what we call self medication.
Self-medication can be defined as the use of medicines by people who did not take professional advice. This means that they are Obtaining and taking drugs without the advice of a doctor.
The term Self-medication means medicating yourself without the supervision of a health-care professional.
At one point in time self medication can result to drug abuse.
Let's take for example, you have headache, you assume the best thing to do is take paracetamol. You took paracetamol because you felt that was the best medicine to use was paracetamol, but what was really affecting you was Typhoid, so you kept using paracetamol, the sickness kept intensifying, your situation got worst after months, the illness went so deep you couldn't move again,
this Is just a case of self medication gone bad. Of course if your guess was To use paracetamol and it was just mere headache you have, you might just be lucky enough to be cured without much issue.
The above example was just what happened to me when I had severe headache, I thought it was Malaria that was disturbing me, so I brought various malaria medicine, my situation got so worst, after 3 month of consuming different drugs, I finally went to the hospital for general checkup, the cause of the illness was Ulcer,a very severe ulcers, I took the prescription from the hospital, after one and half week I was completely healed.
Unless you are vividly knowledgeable about the cause of your illness and you are well educated on how to use the medication that can cure it, Don't try to use medication without a Medical Professional.
