jamesbridget13:
op I beg no vex. There is this leaf called hospital too far. I learnt it's not good for our health when consumed in large amount. Is this true?

Honestly I don't know the leaf

9jajoseph:
OP thanks for educating we the non-Medical experts. About 2 months ago, I have been having some marks all over my body, the marks comes and go over some mins. It doesn't cause pains, just itching. I went to one nurse and she was giving me some anti infection injection and drugs. But that didn't work. I explained my condition to one chemist a week ago and he prescribed some drugs for me. Yesterday I got the drugs. But I checked the works of the drugs he gave me and all of them almost work the same thing.


1. Nefixime 400
2. Surelife Doxycycline
3. Metrozol
4. Loratadine

The first three are antibiotics, the last one is an antihistamine, that helps reduce itching.
Please visit a hospital for a proper diagnosis.

daddytime:


Tell us about the one of "avoiding alc while on medication", please.

I'm curious...

Please avoid alcohol while on drugs, there are some drugs that if you take while taking alcohol, you will experience severe adverse effects that would be worst than the reason you are taking those drugs.

SpecialAdviser:


Thank you sir. I have a particular argument with my doctor. Each time I take sugar, it knocks my waist. Also drinks that have sugar do the same. My doctor is arguing my waist knock is not from this. Problem is that it doesn't take long to confirm this. Once I take sugar, am knocked. What have you to say about this my friend.

Sugar has not been found to cause waist pain.

joyandfaith:


Nice one. I have issue with 4 and 5. From microbial sensitivity, some brands are more sensitive to microbes than others. Hence, doctors prefer certain brands from clinical experience. Also, doctors factor socioeconomic factors of patients in selecting brands. I have seen pharmacists selecting expensive brands for patients because they feel such brands are not fast moving and could expire soon in their stores.

No pharmacist has the right to change a doctor's prescription unless the life of the patient is in danger and even at that you must consult the prescriber first and explain why you will not dispense these drugs, for me if a doctor writes a particular brand I dispense that brand, if I don't have I will tell the patient that I don't have that particular brand but I have it's equivalent, so ask your doctor if I can give the brand that I have.
All things being equal, every brand approved by the regulatory body is supposed to exert same pharmacological effects.

thormywa:



Lol.

No6...so I had catarch for work one day, I work at ikeja GRA na so I enter health plus abi na med plus for adebola shopping mall at Isaac John street to get catarh medication, bro, I kid u u not I was expecting to spend max 5h based on procold or actifed stuff, I was surprised when them tell me cos of catarh medication na 2300 naira. For where na, I gats endure d catarh till close of work and got my procold for 100naira at egebeda

Lol, my colleagues want to meet their target.
But funny enough there are people you will give that procold and they would be looking at you like you're not serious.

Greystone:


From my experience, I can bet that the person who wrote that prescription is not a real registered nurse.

Na Community health practitioners and lab assistants dey form nurse pass

The person was not a nurse, a quack

Lifeisnotajungl:

Op is it true not to take drug that fall on the ground?

It all depends on where the drug fail, if it falls on a clean and polished ground I will pick it and take it but if it falls in an unwholesome environment, I will pick another.
Apart from hygienic reasons, I don't see anything wrong with picking a drug that fail inside my well cleaned and tiled room.

Realhommie:
Can i ask please? I need counsel. Thanks

Okay

Rexymania:
Please can you give me your number, to call in case some crazy nurses are prescribing yeye drugs to a family member of a friend. Na so them almost killed their sister and not mine early this month with crazy prescription. Dele Hospital in Ikorodu! Run away from that hospital! Na quack Nurses dey there!

I always advice people to go to hospital

Oyinlomobambam:


Better explain

Water is always the preferred liquid for taking tablets because it is inert to most chemicals.

Oogway:



Well written Dozin except number 5, whenever i prescribe a particular brand that’s because I want the patient to get that particular brand. Eg If I prescribe Rocephin for a patient that’s because I specifically want that patient to take Rocephin and not any other ceftriaxone so that should the treatment not work I’ll look at a possibility of a differential diagnosis. Most of those cheaper ceftriaxone are not as effective and from experience I can bet on what I said

Yes I understand, that's why I said in most cases not in all cases, my statement was not an absolute deduction.
Happy Sunday

danilmo:


Pls can explain u why Emzor paracetamol seems to work for me better than M&B product??

The m&b seems slow and inefficatious to my satisfaction. I've compared the 2. I'm kinda convinced Emzor has more dose of ingredients than m&b

Just like I replied someone earlier, some people prefer M&B over Emzor paracetamol, most times the issue is more psychological than pharmacological, maybe your mind is already wired that Emzor works better for you than M&B.

Victorclean1:
What a foolish write up. Why call the woman a nurse?. Did u ask her if she is a real nurse or not. Why paint nurses black.

Nurses can take you to court for defaming their profession.

Be sure before you write anything. Am not a nurse but know the implications of defamation as a lawyer

You really need to go back and read very well, this time more slowly to enable a proper comprehension.

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Okay

Theunbothered:


I'm not reading all this nonsense, where is the scientific evidence for herbal medicine?

Covid-19 gives mild to no symptoms for most cases so claiming herbal medicines saved you from the disease is ridiculous.

It's always personal stories from patients who never went to the hospital for a proper or have mild illnesses that will be resolved with bed rest.

I also have personal testimonies about how they ruined patient's livers and pregnancies.

Partteen:


I beg to disagree totally on this assertion. I have taken herbal for 5 years now without any orthodox medications whatsoever and I have significant results. Organic herbal works on the source of the disease and clears it out completely. I caught covid and with my herbal supplements alone taken on empty stomach with just herbal tea and honey for energy. The next day I was at my duty post with just metallic feeling in my mouth. This was monday, by friday I lost my sense of smell and taste and that was why I knew it was covid. Subsequently with dizzy spells, I took another supplement that dialates the arteries for free flow of blood which also enhances oxygen flow.....that was the end of the symptoms completely.

The organic herbal nutrients work best on empty stomach. With recommendations for other health conditions, I have had several testimonies.

The brand is expensive not cheap ......gold is more valuable than its imitation. Take it or leave it.

Obituaries and testimonies abound of the harmful effects of herbal medicines, you'd rather find me dead than take them.
Keep overwhelming your liver in the name of herbal medicines, one thousand chemicals in on one concoction.

Lagusta:


Bros, I can never take flagyl with water o

That drug is bitter meehn

Lol,
Flagyl is a terrorist, I don't take it, I normally use Secnidazole, it's just four tablets at once and I'm done, no need for Flagyl.

Olzeus:
So how is it that when i took the covid vaccine the doctor at my office staff clinic insisted i take paracetamol and not panadol if i start feeling funny?

Panadol is a brand of paracetamol, it's just his preference

adaperry25:
As men of Honour

We join hands

Go to hospital and seek medical help, nairaland is not a hospital.
Nigerians should normalise seeking medical help when needed.

NoToPile:


I was even surprised when I saw P alaxin, I react to that drug serious nausea, the doctor then told me to stop it immediately and then sometime later it was prescribed for my mum, told her not to take it because if I react to it there's a possibility she will. She didn't listen and the exact same effect she also had to stop the drug ,no other way I can explain it than nausea but its a not so nice feeling.

Since then (more than 10 years now) we all run from p-alaxin .

its the artmeter lumenfantrine drugs for malaria that we seem to tolerate well and the cheap ones even work too.

Some drug side effects are idiosyncratic, ie they are peculiar to individuals, I only use P-Alaxin (dihydroartemisin and piperaquine) or its equivalent and I don't feel any side effect.

Mercychen:
Op, that your number 4 is not a myth. It's very true The more expensive a drug is the more effective it will be.
I'm talking from personal experience. It happened to me on two occasions.

One was during the lock down. I was down with malaria and typhoid. Then a chemist recommended lonart because I told him I was on a low budget. After taking it, no single relief. Same thing with the cheap typhoid drugs I took.

I then went to a big pharmacy and the pharmacist told me to go for the expensive drugs ( co
Ciprotab and pialaxin) that I should stop *pinching" money. Lo and behold before I finished the course, I was Hale and hearty.

Recently same thing happened.
I bought 800 malaria drugs. Nothing. I now went back and bought pialaxin, immediately after the first dose, I felt instant relief. So brand matters. All these smaller brands don't really work.

You want to compare becgam Amoxil with other brands of Amoxil?
This one is a fact.

There are people that do not take any other anti malarial apart from Lonart (Artemether and Lumefantrine) and they get better with it, your case could be drug resistance.

Shell SPDC.....
It is either Shell for short or SPDC which means Shell Petroleum Development Company

PraisesPblaze:

Thanks.
But taking drugs with coke is ok right?

I guess i can simply ask for drugs instead of injections in all treatments?

To avoid stories, just use water.

Mryacks:
Don't swallow meds with cold water...is this true?

The normal temperature of the body is about 37 degrees Celsius, so drugs are manufactured bearing this in mind, before drugs in form of tablets are released into the market, one of the final tests carried out on it is the dissolution test, this is carried out in an environment that is similar to the stomach and drugs are expected to dissolve as fast as possible, so taking drugs with cold water may reduce the rate of the dissolution. The best is to take it with normal water.

PraisesPblaze:
1. I heard it's not good to take drugs with MILK.

2. Heard that one can drink intravaneous injection liquid and it will have same effect e.g adding the liquid to coke, even alcohol (gin).

How true are these?

Milk is very rich in calcium and calcium has this ability to adsorb (have substances adhere to its surface) other drugs thereby forming an unabsorbable complex which reduces the amount of drugs entering the system, so it is not advisable to take drugs with milk. This is not the case with all drugs but we just generally advise that you take with water.

Intravenous drugs are meant to be administered straight into the blood stream, so they are produced in the highest pure form and sterility. Some drugs are destroyed by the stomach juices limiting their absorption into the body so taking these drugs orally makes them ineffective.
If you can swallow an intravenous drug why not take the oral equivalent of the drug and it's not advisable to take any drug with alcohol

Una business, nobody takes him serious

pocohantas:
- Drugs work better when taken with water.

- Paracetamol is more effective than panadol, just because panadol seems coated and not bitter like pcm.

Nigerian nurses and doctors just love inflicting pain. Even if you are pregnant, they will first give you the medicine that would make you want to vomit your unborn baby. Except you go back and complain. They will na grudgingly give you something else. Tufiakwa!

Lol
Panadol is a brand of paracetamol manufactured by GSK, seriously I don explain tire to people. What I now do is to tell them, "please don't take it with anything containing paracetamol because they both contain Acetaminophen" they believe that line faster because I have mentioned what they don't understand.
The warm water own, I don't even know how that one started.

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1. Antibiotics dry up blood when you take them and so it must be taken with blood supplements. This is very wrong, antibiotics do not dry blood, ask your doctor or pharmacist whatever you need to know when taking antibiotics.

2. The white vitamin C works better than the coloured one. The difference between the coloured and white vitamin C are the colourants and sweeteners used to manufacture the latter, ordinarily vitamin C does not have a sweet taste but sweeteners and colourants are incorporated into the active drug during compounding/manufacture to improve the taste and aesthetics, that's all.
The sour or sweet taste is not associated with efficacy.

3. Anti helminthics (worm expellers) should be taken after taking sugar or sugary food.
Some people say this is done to entice the worm to come out and eat the sugary food so that the drugs can act on it. This is one of the most hilarious stuff I've ever heard as a pharmacist, however it is not true, just take your worm expeller as prescribed by your doctor.

4. The more expensive the drug the more effective it is compared to another brand of the same drug. This is not always true, most times you are just buying a name or a brand.

5. The particular brand prescribed by the doctor is always the best, doctors are meant to prescribe generics so that the pharmacist will be at liberty to select the available brand and dispense to the patient, most times the patient may not have enough money to buy the particular brand prescribed and the proper thing to do would be to dispense an affordable but effective brand, there are some cases where some patients would be walking from Pharmacy to Pharmacy looking for a particular brand that was given to them in the hospital while there are several other brands that they can purchase that would do same thing.

6. Roadside drug sellers are more affordable than pharmacies and hospitals. This particular myth should be listed as one of the thousand ways to die in Nigeria, patronising quacks is a sure way to meet your maker quickly. In every pharmacy, there are usually up to 5 brands of the same drug and their prices are always different too, this is to cater for needs of everyone, wether high, medium or low class, when you get into the Pharmacy, tell the pharmacist the amount you have, the chances are high that he has the drug you want that you can afford at that price, apart from getting an affordable and effective medication, you also get a sound drug information. Also make it a habit to go to the hospital when you are not feeling fine, don't wait till it's too late, government hospitals are still cheap in Nigeria, just go on time.

7. Herbal medicines are safer than orthodox medicines. Some people forget that most orthodox drugs are sourced from natural sources, moreover a particular plant may contain thousands or millions of phytochemicals, some medicinal and some harmful.

You can state yours

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