Tag: Pharmacy Department

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How to Use Drugs Correctly

I often receive complaints from everyone. What else can [family medication] do besides checking the instructions? You may not know whether this App is used in what. I’ll give you a detailed explanation today, just once. Even if you think it is an advertisement, please watch it patiently. It will be useful to you. Judging from everyone’s usual questions, the following questions are the most concerned: How to use medicine for cold and fever? Which medicines cannot be taken at the same time? Which medicines cannot be taken by pregnant women? Which medicines cannot be used by children and the elderly? What if the old man has hypertension and diabetes but always forgets to take medicine? Which drugs are unsafe? Read More …

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Be cautious when injecting botulinum toxin, hyaluronic acid and other beauty products.

Recently, the food and drug regulatory authorities have cracked many cases of selling and using illegal drugs and medical devices in beauty salons. Take Zhejiang [March 13] case of manufacturing and selling fake drugs and unlicensed medical devices as an example: Suspect Wang Mou Opens Medical Beauty Center in Ningbo, Purchase botulinum toxin injection marked [BOTOX] [Hengli] and hyaluronic acid injection marked [Restylan] from criminals in Shenyang, Hebei, Shenzhen and other places. After investigation, More than 50,000 bottles (branches) of 77 varieties involved in this case are fake drugs or unregistered medical devices. Sixty suspects have been arrested and fake dens and sales networks distributed in more than 20 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) have been destroyed. Through sorting out Read More …

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Placebos cannot cure diseases, and placebos may also [be harmful]

Placebo agent is already familiar to many people. Most of the understanding of placebo comes from [randomized double-blind controlled] experimental settings in medicine. Placebo and placebo effect have caused great discussion and controversy throughout the history of medicine, and have continued to this day. What are the characteristics of placebo effect? As a substance that should not produce any biological effects, it works through what? What factors can affect the placebo effect? Is placebo therapy clinically and ethically appropriate for patients? The history of placebo The word Placebo comes from Latin and its original meaning is [to make pleasure]. It first appeared in the Great Dictionary of New Medicine published in England in 1785 and has clearly pointed out that Read More …

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Food and Drug Administration Reminds Consumers Not to Buy Yang-strengthening Health Products

On September 26, 2014, the General Administration of Food and Drug Administration issued a notice reminding consumers not to buy health food claiming aphrodisiac function. The full text is as follows: Recently, media reports said that Since 2013, the number of cases of producing and selling health food with toxic and harmful ingredients claiming aphrodisiac function has risen sharply. Most of the sales locations are rented houses, small shops and adult stores. Illegal vendors have taken advantage of the psychology that some consumers are ashamed to see a doctor, covet cheap prices and are ashamed to report cases after being victimized, and have taken risks to sell aphrodisiac products to seek illegal benefits. Here, China Food and Drug Administration reminds Read More …

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She prevented [thalidomide] from going public in the United States.

On 24 July 2014, Chevy Chase, Maryland, USA, A deaf and incompetent old man passed her 100th birthday peacefully. The outside world has little attraction for her. In addition to the FDA, The world has long forgotten her. On the list of American heroes of the 20th century, The old man had her unshakable seat, But it has long been forgotten by the world. Her name is Frances Oldham Kelsey. Life’s fame depends not so much on opportunity, Better luck. Kelsey’s luck is that her name is easily misunderstood as a man. She was born in Canada. When I was a child, Her parents wanted her to have the same education as her brother, Send her to a private boys’ Read More …

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Don’t let your cosmetics become a paradise for bacteria carnival.

Every time I come down from the weight meter and joyfully tell my husband how much lighter I am, he will coldly ask, “Have you removed your makeup?” Although I am angry every time, there is no way to deny the fact that cosmetics have become a necessity in my life. Every month, the State General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine will announce to the public the list of [unqualified imported food and cosmetics in the current month], and every other quarter, it will inform the national product quality supervision and spot checks. Every time the list is published, everyone is worried. Especially about the cosmetics test results, we often see a result of [the total number of Read More …

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Take you to know the classification and use of laxative drugs.

Most laxative drugs used clinically are over-the-counter drugs and patients can buy and use them on their own. Children, pregnant women, the elderly, internal medicine, surgery, oncology, there are constipation patients everywhere, laxative drugs, are you using them correctly? I. Classification of laxative drugs At present, the commonly used laxative drugs in clinic can be divided into the following categories, which take effect through different mechanisms. 1. Lubricating laxatives Lubricate intestinal wall, soften stool and make stool easy to discharge, such as liquid paraffin wax, glycerin (10-30ml oral administration each time), peanut oil, soybean oil or sesame oil (15-30ml oral administration each time), etc. The main disadvantages of these drugs are poor taste and weak function, and long-term application will Read More …

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There is no trivial matter in taking medicine: changing the dosage casually is tantamount to taking health as a joke.

Many people have misconceptions about the dosage of drugs. Although the drug instructions say several times a day in black and white, A few tablets at a time, But they don’t care, They mistakenly believe that increasing the dosage of drugs will enhance the efficacy of drugs, So when suffering from illness, he gave himself [strong medicine], He took two tablets of what he was supposed to take, He will take three tablets if he should have taken two tablets. Some patients will also think that [the medicine is three times poisonous], Just take some medicine to relieve some symptoms. Why do you still let your body bear unnecessary toxic and side effects? I know a nursing mother like this. Read More …

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There is no trivial matter in taking drugs: drugs take effect quickly and slowly, and don’t expect [drugs to cure diseases]

The drug effect is fast and slow. When most patients are treated, They are all eager to get rid of diseases. I took medicine from a doctor. After eating for a day or two, I found that there was no obvious effect. Stop the drug, Or increase the dosage, Or dressing change, Some even go to many hospitals repeatedly. This not only wastes energy and financial resources, There may also be delays in treatment. In fact, many times the doctor’s diagnosis is clear, the treatment is also right, and the prescribed drugs are also effective. Only a few words are given to the patient: how long will it take to see the curative effect after taking the drugs? After all, Read More …

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There is no trivial matter in medication: the more expensive and new the medicine, the better.

Don’t blindly believe in new drugs People often say [every price counts], So to the extent of economic capacity, People like to buy things with high prices in order to buy good quality. However, the more expensive the medicine, the better. The price of a drug is determined by its research and development cost, raw material cost, process preparation process and sales links. It is not determined by the curative effect of drugs on diseases. Some new drugs, Due to the high cost of research and development, the pricing will be correspondingly high, but it is not necessarily better than the existing old drugs. For example, people are familiar with the old drug aspirin, large dose aspirin can relieve pain, Read More …