Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Beware on Self Medicating

pain killers

Always consult your physician in taking medicines even if it is an over the counter drugs or not. Remember that drugs that might have work for other people in treating a particular symptoms or disease may or may not work for you.

Last night, one of my batch mate in college was pronounced dead after being in coma for days in the ICU. Due to dysmenorrhea and I mean, the worst case of it, she did self medication to relieve the severe pain she was feeling. Though I'm not sure what particular drugs she used but according to my friend, she took it via direct IV. In fact she's an OR nurse and it just shows that whether you are a health care provider or not, it's still not safe to self medicate. This is just one case of unfortunate incidents brought about by self medication.

As much as possible don't depend on drugs.

It's just sad to know she passed away. Never had the chance to visit her in the hospital thinking of visiting her some other day, but it was too late. I was just shock to hear the sad news from vianne last night. May her soul rest in peace.

1 comment:

coicoi said...

Sorry to hear this bad news