Self Medication can be kiss of Death: "Experts says"

PESHAWAR:A Self-Medication has been observed as a global phenomenon and potential contributor to human pathogen resistance to antibiotics. The adverse consequences of such practices should always be emphasized to the community and steps to curb it. Rampant  irrational use of antimicrobial without medical guidance may result in greater probability of inappropriate, incorrect or undue therapy, missed diagnosis delays in appropriate treatment pathogen resistance and increased morbidity. Self medication has been observed as a global phenomenon and potential contributor to human pathogen resistance to antibiotics. Self medication leads to wastage of financial resources and often results in lack of therapeutic outcome. Major problems related to self medication are wastage of resources in resource limited settings for health care environment increased resistance of pathogens and causes serious health hazards such as adverse reaction and prolonged suffering Health news reported.The prolonged suffering contributes in increased out of pocket spending for treatment Antimicrobial resistance is a current problem world wide particularly in developing countries where antibiotics are available without any prescription Self medication is very common in Asian countries and influenced by many factors such as education gender social-economic status felling of sympathy toward family members in sickness lack of time in seeking health care availability and accessibility of health services affordability of health services ignorance miss belief extensive advertisement and availability of drugs in other than drug shops are responsible for growing trend of self medication . Some of the mechanism to address the problem of self medication could be public health awareness probram addressing he harmful effects of self medication at various levels of the healthcare systems counting medical education to the community pharmacist pharmacist nursing staff medical and paramedical staff developing a framework for continuous review and monitoring of medicinal products on the basis of safety efficacy and potency which could lead to further enforcement and implementation of laws and regulations governing medicinal products and planning interventions to promotes rational use of medicines through mass media such as television  magazine and newspapers. One tends to look up the Internet solutions and medicines based on ones interpretation of the limited knowledge that may be online. of self medication one might suffer form potential threats arising because of self medication which should be detrimental for bone life dont use madicen in you own prescription .