Misconceptions about home medication

With the development of social economy, people’s living standards continue to improve, many drug advertising into the family, so that many families are gradually equipped with a variety of drugs, self-administered, but because the vast majority of family members are not engaged in medical and health work, and do not know the indications of these drugs, toxic and side effects, doses and regimens, which cause many adverse consequences and hazards, and even lead to tragedies, now will Common family medication misconceptions are listed below: a. Allopathic treatment Headache, foot pain, where the discomfort is treated. If you feel pain in the upper abdomen, you think gastritis, gastric ulcer, long-term medication as advertised, and so the pain is intolerable, only to go to the hospital for examination, the results may be diagnosed with other diseases, and may even be some malignant disease and delayed, missed treatment, regret. Second, the dose is too small Now many people feel slightly sick, always like to take a few tablets to prevent, so there is in order to prevent disease or fear of toxic reactions to drugs and the use of small doses of medication, which is not only ineffective, but also produce resistance to drugs. Third, the dose is too large Some people are eager to cure the disease, thinking that the greater the amount of drugs, the better the effect, not knowing that this is very easy to cause drug poisoning, and even life-threatening. Fourth, the course of treatment requires a certain amount of time called the course of treatment, but now some patients feel better after taking the drug, they will stop the drug, the substance of some diseases are still not cured, should still take drugs to consolidate, otherwise it is easy to make the disease repeated. Five, intermittent regular medication is to maintain a certain concentration of drugs in the blood in the body, but some people eat and stop, so it is obviously difficult to cure the disease or even make the disease recurring and aggravated. Sixth, the time to stop taking certain drugs when stopping non-stop, will cause toxic side effects; certain drugs that need to be taken for a long time (such as hormones) suddenly stop, leading to the aggravation of the disease or into a dangerous. In addition, frequent medication changes, multiple drug combinations, or the belief that Chinese medicine and proprietary Chinese medicine are not toxic, remedies are beneficial and harmless, etc., are biased.