Drugs

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Special Care
 
Name of medicine: When purchasing, it is good given the name, composition and characteristics of the product received is correct.

Shelf life: The old product may not have the same therapeutic properties of the product standard and can even be harmful to health, so it is important to check the expiration date printed on the packaging of the product. Consumers should not use product with expired shelf-life and must not accept products with packaging mashed, torn or no label.

Strength or power: The drugs of the same name and brand can be sold in packs or adult children or with higher dosages or low, so the recipe should specify and consumers should check if the product purchased is exactly the same prescribed by doctor both in strength and in composition.

Price: Pharmacies and drugstores are required by law to make available to the consumer a list of drugs that have prices controlled by the government, all medicines have printed on their packs the maximum amount of sale to the consumer. In the more prices are available, each establishment has its price, it is worth searching.

The details of the package leaflet are important and provide various information to the consumer, as specified in the formula, method of use, contraindications, side effects and other precautions for use.

Registration and number of the lot: All medicines industrialized bring their number of registration at the Ministry of Health. Check the existence of the record number and batch number is a security measure that could be crucial in the investigation of problems with the drug.

Manufacturer and responsible pharmacist: In the same way you should always include the package name, address and GCC of the manufacturer and the name and registration of the pharmacist in charge.

Quantity: The packaging and package leaflet of medicinal products should be an indication of their weight, net volume or quantity of units.

Pharmacy

Pharmacies and drugstores in the consumer always find a pharmacist present, because the law so requires, which may guide you on the replacement of one drug by another that contains the same active compound, that is similar but is made by another laboratory, has a different name.

However, it is not to request this information from the pharmacy clerk, but to require the presence of the pharmacist who is able to provide these clarifications.

As the product should be handled or split the consumer must find a pharmacy that is the establishment that is permitted to handle medical prescription formulas, or avian, or revenues crumble medicines manufactured by laboratories with medical authorization.

 
Drugs

The drugs must necessarily have legal registration and meet the standards set on:

• composition;

• safety and effectiveness;

• activity;

• quality and purity, according to existing standards, as determined by specific legislation on medicines.

Furthermore, all medications should bring in the package leaflet or carton:

• method of composition;

• routes of administration (oral, injectable);

• information;

• contra-indications;

• side effects and adverse reactions;

• reactions and care should be observed;

• expiry date;

• care of conservation;

• instructions for use;

• mode of action.

If you miss any of this information, the product can be a "black medicine".

This type of medicine is a threat to their health and their lives.

You also have the right to demand that the doctor write the prescription to be legible, that is, you need to understand what he said.
 
Drugs or Altered without registration

If you buy a remedy and note any change in its color or consistency, or that do not have the record of the Ministry of Health may require the replacement of the product or refund the amount paid on the spot where you purchased the product.

If not satisfied, look for a body of consumer protection that may serve as an intermediary between you and the provider.

You can also communicate the fact to sanitary or the Regional Council of Pharmacy to supervise the establishment.
 
Medicines without label

Lack of information is very dangerous because you do not know what is taking and how to use the medicine.

Not provide necessary information is a crime (Art. 63, CRC). This hits the protection of their basic rights to life, health, safety and not be properly informed (Art. 6, CDC).

Here are some care you should take:

• Always buy products with a doctor's prescription;

• do not take medicines on their behalf. This practice is called self and is very dangerous and can cause intoxication or addiction;

• carefully examine the labels and / or leaflets, and check the necessary information;

• if you buy a product with no label and / or leaflet, in addition to the previous care, you can report to the police, the Regional Council of Pharmacy or the Promoter of Justice in the city.
 
Laboratories

Laboratories for chemical analysis by SUS agreements may not charge for reviews.

In private laboratories no control over the price. Therefore, search before making the tests.

The Consumer Defense Code has standards for laboratories comply.

The owners of laboratories are suppliers such as other traders.

So, are responsible for misleading advertising, unfair contract terms and other practices specified in the Code, including liability in case of error or damage.


Some Recommendations

• Medicines should be kept away from children and pets to avoid poisoning.

• Medicines should not be compared with bullets or juice when administered to children.

• Medicines should be stored in local, fresh, airy, well ventilated and protected from light and moisture. Never on top of refrigerator, cabinets for bathrooms or with food.

• The packaging of medicines should never be reused.

• The surplus of drugs used should be thrown out, mainly antibiotics, eye drops, nasal and otological medicine.

• Patients who use more than one drug at the same time, should not keep them out of the pack to avoid confusion.

• Never be without prescription drug use, even if it has been prescribed on a previous occasion.

• Never to use the same recipe more times, without the knowledge of the physician.

• The medicine needs time to act. It is quite wrong to imagine that increasing the dose of the drug effect will be faster. Rather, this may result in severe consequences to the health of the user.

• Do not use any medications on broadcast advertising in newspapers, TVs and radios. The drugs are only useful when the body really needs them, if used correctly and with balance.

• The consumer should never insist on the doctor for a prescription drug it. The doctor always knows what the most appropriate remedy to the patient.

• The drug should be given taken during the period specified by the doctor.

• The patient can not change the way you take and do not stop treatment without knowledge of the physician.

• In the case of antibiotics, the perfect fulfillment of the treatment should be more rigorous, because they are not taken properly and do not heal, lose the effect when they are needed again.

• Women of phase feeding, the elderly and children should take extra care when using drugs.

• Pregnant women, more than other patients, should only use products with medical supervision.

• If during treatment, the drug causes a reaction that was not warned by the doctor, he must be warned immediately.

Self-medication

The highest incidence of problems with self-medication and intoxication are related to a hypersensitivity or allergic reactions manifested by minor irritation.

In some situations or in certain patients these complications can be fatal, but the normal is the aggravation of disease.

Because the use of the drug without medical supervision may hide some symptoms and some time later the disease re-occur in more severe.

Furthermore, if the consumer fails in treatment, reducing or stopping the use of the drug before reaching the dosage and length of treatment prescribed by a doctor, you can have the appearance of other diseases due to aggravation of the first. Example: a simple cold, for example, can turn into pneumonia.

Data from medical

It is a prescription required because of information obtained from the patient and any tests, which should temper the use of the usefulness of the drug with the least chance of side effects.

This balance does not follow only the type and characteristics of the product, but also how to use and dosage in relation to time.

So the recipe contains, in addition to the drug, its total amount, the dosage, times and methods of their use.

When you receive a prescription, consumers should note that the information and comments are legible, you understand all its contents and if there is nothing more to clarify. The revenue, at least, should include:

• Name and address of the patient;

• Name of product, type and quantity prescribed time, take it, duration of treatment and how to use it;

• Date, signature and registration number of the doctor in the Regional Council of Medicine.

It noted that only the doctor is trained and has a duty to clarify any doubts the patient may have about the disease, the drug prescribed and recommended treatment.

For convenience and economy the consumer can ask the doctor to make the recipe also include the generic name (active compound) to the drug, with convenience, can replace it without any problems.

The replacement of any medicine prescribed by a doctor can only occur in this case, when the substitute product contains the same active compound of the product replaced.

Drugstore

Although the drug also has a pharmacist available to inform consumers, their activity is directed to distribution and not the handling of medicines.

The drug, other than the pharmacy, can only sell the products manufactured and packaged by laboratories and can not handle drugs or crumble.

Today, however, the vast majority of drugs are also pharmacies, or have areas suitable for handling and fractionation of medicines.

Language of Tarja

For immediate understanding of the risk and degree of need for prescription medications must be distinguished with a language of stripe printed on their packaging.

The black label indicates that the product is high risk, can not be used without medical prescription and can only be sold with the presentation of the recipe.

The revenues of these types of product are retained in the establishment of the drug distributor and are collected periodically, by public health services.

Red stripe: red stripe with the product is lower risk, ie although it is also sold only on prescription, does not pose risk of life, but side effects.

While the consumer has the product at home, or will buy it regardless of present prescription, it is important to get medical advice to use it because, even being recommended for some types of diseases may exacerbate its effects other areas of health .

The absence of stripe is not an indicator that the product can be used without contra-indication, but that can be sold without the presentation of a prescription, so the consumer must maintain the same care recommended for all medicines with stripe.


Prescription Medicine

When the doctor prescribes a particular drug is not only giving a remedy that can alleviate a disease, but opted to define a type and product which does not or does not increase other problems or disabilities of the patient. So the doctor, before prescribing a medicine for evil identified in the patient, also takes care to choose a product whose chemical composition is not aggressive to other points of weakness in their health, an opportunity endless series of questions such as:

• If you are allergic to any medicine, mold, dust, perfume, etc;

• If it is in use of any drug;

• If you have the habit of using alcohol;

• What are the sports that practice;

• What kind of food or drink frequently USA;

• If there are cases of disease in the family: hypertension, diabetes and others;

• If you have noticed changes in menstrual cycle;

• If the patient is pregnant or during breastfeeding, etc..

This information may not be related to an apparent cold, but the medicine that can combat it should have chemical characteristics that do not endanger other potential health problems if not expressed until the time of consultation.

 

 

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