It is impossible to prohibit self-treatment. But to help understand how to use OTC medicines and not to hurt yourself more than the disease, told the doctor-therapist Anatoly Ignatiev.

Rule one. If you feel unwell for the first time, consult a doctor and not with a neighbor. Even OTC drugs should first be advised by a doctor, or, at worst, a pharmacist in a pharmacy. Then you can already use them yourself, as the Internet publication for girls and women from 14 to 35 years old Pannochka. net Rule two. If you are successfully coping with already well-known symptoms of a disease, taking the same drug, do not rush to change it to another (newer, cheaper or more expensive). Even with the same active substance, different medications have differences. Why experiment with yourself?.

Rule Three. Always carefully read the instructions-insert even to a well-known drug. And not only indications and contraindications, but also special warnings, as life goes on and you change.

Pregnancy, breastfeeding, taking other medications for a concomitant disease - all this can be very important in order to treat a familiar medication with caution.

Rule Four. Never violate the prescribed dosage, dosage regimen and duration of administration. And never throw away the packaging of the drug to see if it has expired.

Rule Five. If the usual malaise suddenly changed its intensity, duration, character of the symptoms, again you will have to go to the doctor. Only he will be able to change the regimen of the drug, dosage, or advise to replace the drug.

Rule Six. If you notice that with a habitual ailment, a familiar medicine starts to give a completely unfamiliar effect, you need to go to the doctor and consult, understand the reason for such changes.

Rule seventh. If you buy a complex preparation, carefully read its composition. There may be ingredients on which you are allergic, or you do not transfer them at all.

If you have to combine a simple and complex drug (this is often the case with colds), carefully read their composition. It may happen that there will be the same substance both there and there, which, if taken at the same time, can lead to an overdose.

If there are coincidences, try to calculate a safe dose, and best of all, exclude a combination of such drugs.

Particularly likely in self-treatment of a cold is an overdose of paracetamol, which can also carry a different name - acetaminophen.

Rule eighth. If after taking the medication there were unfamiliar sensations (redness, dizziness, intestinal frustration and t. ) the drug must be canceled.

Rule ninth. Do not try to improve your health by taking the medicine "just in case". If you are healthy, then why do you need a pill, especially since absolutely safe drugs do not happen.

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