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Needle injection worsens cancer

PraisesPblaze:
1. I heard it's not good to take drugs with MILK.

2. Heard that one can drink intravaneous injection liquid and it will have same effect e.g adding the liquid to coke, even alcohol (gin).

How true are these?

Outright lies, anyone who tells you to take alcohol and medicine wants to kill you before your time.

Dozis:
1. of phytochemicals, some medicinal and some harmful.

You can state yours

Tell us about the one of "avoiding alc while on medication", please.

I'm curious...

Dozis:
1. Antibiotics dry up blood when you take them and so it must be taken with blood supplements. This is very wrong, antibiotics do not dry blood, ask your doctor or pharmacist whatever you need to know when taking antibiotics.

2. The white vitamin C works better than the coloured one. The difference between the coloured and white vitamin C are the colourants and sweeteners used to manufacture the latter, ordinarily vitamin C does not have a sweet taste but sweeteners and colourants are incorporated into the active drug during compounding/manufacture to improve the taste and aesthetics, that's all.
The sour or sweet taste is not associated with efficacy.

3. Anti helminthics (worm expellers) should be taken after taking sugar or sugary food.
Some people say this is done to entice the worm to come out and eat the sugary food so that the drugs can act on it. This is one of the most hilarious stuff I've ever heard as a pharmacist, however it is not true, just take your worm expeller as prescribed by your doctor.

4. The more expensive the drug the more effective it is compared to another brand of the same drug. This is not always true, most times you are just buying a name or a brand.

5. The particular brand prescribed by the doctor is always the best, doctors are meant to prescribe generics so that the pharmacist will be at liberty to select the available brand and dispense to the patient, most times the patient may not have enough money to buy the particular brand prescribed and the proper thing to do would be to dispense an affordable but effective brand, there are some cases where some patients would be walking from Pharmacy to Pharmacy looking for a particular brand that was given to them in the hospital while there are several other brands that they can purchase that would do same thing.

6. Roadside drug sellers are more affordable than pharmacies and hospitals. This particular myth should be listed as one of the thousand ways to die in Nigeria, patronising quacks is a sure way to meet your maker quickly. In every pharmacy, there are usually up to 5 brands of the same drug and their prices are always different too, this is to cater for needs of everyone, wether high, medium or low class, when you get into the Pharmacy, tell the pharmacist the amount you have, the chances are high that he has the drug you want that you can afford at that price, apart from getting an affordable and effective medication, you also get a sound drug information. Also make it a habit to go to the hospital when you are not feeling fine, don't wait till it's too late, government hospitals are still cheap in Nigeria, just go on time.

7. Herbal medicines are safer than orthodox medicines. Some people forget that most orthodox drugs are sourced from natural sources, moreover a particular plant may contain thousands or millions of phytochemicals, some medicinal and some harmful.

You can state yours

Number 4 and 7. People take a lot unnecessary risks by taking herbal concoctions without even knowing the hyegenic standard of the concoction, worse still without even knowing the chemicals in it. Orthodox drugs are also made from these herbs but they differ in that they are made by extracting the particular phytochemical(s) needed from the herb AND the exact amount of the said chemicals.

I recently discovered that my system is adapting to P alaxin more than othet arthemeter drugs, is this a good thing or a bad thing, what if the company stops producing it.

Mercychen:
Op, that your number 4 is not a myth. It's very true The more expensive a drug is the more effective it will be.
I'm talking from personal experience. It happened to me on two occasions.

One was during the lock down. I was down with malaria and typhoid. Then a chemist recommended lonart because I told him I was on a low budget. After taking it, no single relief. Same thing with the cheap typhoid drugs I took.

I then went to a big pharmacy and the pharmacist told me to go for the expensive drugs ( co
Ciprotab and pialaxin) that I should stop *pinching" money. Lo and behold before I finished the course, I was Hale and hearty.

Recently same thing happened.
I bought 800 malaria drugs. Nothing. I now went back and bought pialaxin, immediately after the first dose, I felt instant relief. So brand matters. All these smaller brands don't really work.

You want to compare becham Amoxil with other brands of Amoxil?
This one is a fact.

God, this was me in September. Bought malaria and typhoid drug for 1100 naira... Be like say I go still die. Stopped it and bought coartem with one antibiotics like that for almost 3500. I felt well in three days

pocohantas:
- Drugs work better when taken with water.

- Emzor paracetamol is more effective than panadol, just because panadol seems coated and not bitter like the former.

Nigerian nurses and doctors just love inflicting pain. Even if you are pregnant, they will first give you the medicine that would make you want to vomit your unborn baby. Except you go back and complain. They will na grudgingly give you something else. Tufiakwa!

On the part of patients.
- Once you feel better you can discontinue the drug. Tomorrow they will now say the drug is fake or malaria no gree make them treat am.

- Tablets work better than syrups. I have seen parents crush tablets for their kids because they think children syrups are ineffective.

What of taking drugs with cold water?

That pharmacies and chemists are cheaper than hospitals.

creamylicious:
God, this was me in September. Bought malaria and typhoid drug for 1100 naira... Be like say I go still die. Stopped it and bought coartem with one antibiotics like that for almost 3500. I felt well in three days

Lol. @ bold.
I thought I was the only one.

Op, Kam en see.

Dozis:
The normal temperature of the body is about 37 degrees Celsius, so drugs are manufactured bearing this in mind, before drugs in form of tablets are released into the market, one of the final tests carried out on it is the dissolution test, this is carried out in an environment that is similar to the stomach and drugs are expected to dissolve as fast as possible, so taking drugs with cold water may reduce the rate of the dissolution. The best is to take it with normal water.

Better PIKIN

Mercychen:
Op, that your number 4 is not a myth. It's very true The more expensive a drug is the more effective it will be.
I'm talking from personal experience. It happened to me on two occasions.

One was during the lock down. I was down with malaria and typhoid. Then a chemist recommended lonart because I told him I was on a low budget. After taking it, no single relief. Same thing with the cheap typhoid drugs I took.

I then went to a big pharmacy and the pharmacist told me to go for the expensive drugs ( co
Ciprotab and pialaxin) that I should stop *pinching" money. Lo and behold before I finished the course, I was Hale and hearty.

Recently same thing happened.
I bought 800 malaria drugs. Nothing. I now went back and bought pialaxin, immediately after the first dose, I felt instant relief. So brand matters. All these smaller brands don't really work.

You want to compare becham Amoxil with other brands of Amoxil?
This one is a fact.

You are the one getting it wrong, Lonart and P-alaxin are different drugs not just brand, they are both anti-malaria but the constituent is different.

Lonart contain Arthemether-Lumefantrine(A/L) while P-alaxin contain Dihydroartemisine-piperaquine,(D/P) most likely other brands containing (A/L) will not work for you, while that containing (D/P) will

HEBEI:
That pharmacies and chemists are cheaper than hospitals.

Since you no sabi wetin OP dey yarn about melecines,make I kuku answer you.
Dat one true o. No be everything be hospital matter. If you dey run belle now, d pharmacy go help you, no be say you go dey carry shit for body go for hospital. Correct hospital self go get pharmacy.

Op, how about people wey dem rape and people go say dem don use melecines flush the tin comot. Dat one na true?

Dozis:
There are people that do not take any other anti malarial apart from Lonart and they get better with it, your case could be drug resistance.

Ever since I started taking that lonart with antibiotics to cure malaria, I have not had reason to change to other drugs.
This is not an advert, it may not work for others but it works for me.

Interesting

So how is it that when i took the covid vaccine the doctor at my office staff clinic insisted i take paracetamol and not panadol if i start feeling funny?

Dozis:
Lol
Panadol is a brand of paracetamol manufactured by GSK, seriously I don explain tire to people. What I now do is to tell them, "please don't take it with anything containing paracetamol because they both contain Acetaminophen" they believe that line faster because I have mentioned what they don't understand.
The warm water own, I don't even know how that one started.

yahmohy27:
What of taking drugs with cold water?

don't

Grandmeister:
Number 4 and 7. People take a lot unnecessary risks by taking herbal concoctions without even knowing the hyegenic standard of the concoction, worse still without even knowing the chemicals in it. Orthodox drugs are also made from these herbs but they differ in that they are made by extracting the particular phytochemical(s) needed from the herb AND the exact amount of the said chemicals.

When you drink agbo you're taking herbal concoction together with dirt. The agbo may not work but the dirt may introduce harmful germs into your body which will add to your problems.

Biochemist by profession reporting...

Just calm down and learn from a professional, what he said is right. Some drugs are expensive cause of the brand and former patent pharmaceutical companies had on the drugs in the past, which has given them a sort of brand advantage. For example, Beecham.
In your case, it's possible you bought the type of drug the malaria was resistant to or you even bought a fake (there are many fake antimalarial drugs and antibiotics out there), the pharmacist then gave you another generic type and you were ok. P. Alaxin and Lonart are diff compositions. Same with antibiotics.

Mercychen:
Op, that your number 4 is not a myth. It's very true The more expensive a drug is the more effective it will be.
I'm talking from personal experience. It happened to me on two occasions.

One was during the lock down. I was down with malaria and typhoid. Then a chemist recommended lonart because I told him I was on a low budget. After taking it, no single relief. Same thing with the cheap typhoid drugs I took.

I then went to a big pharmacy and the pharmacist told me to go for the expensive drugs ( co
Ciprotab and pialaxin) that I should stop *pinching" money. Lo and behold before I finished the course, I was Hale and hearty.

Recently same thing happened.
I bought 800 malaria drugs. Nothing. I now went back and bought pialaxin, immediately after the first dose, I felt instant relief. So brand matters. All these smaller brands don't really work.

You want to compare becham Amoxil with other brands of Amoxil?
This one is a fact.

Olzeus:
So how is it that when i took the covid vaccine the doctor at my office staff clinic insisted i take paracetamol and not panadol if i start feeling funny?

Panadol is a brand of paracetamol, it's just his preference

Dozis:
There are people that do not take any other anti malarial apart from Lonart and they get better with it, your case could be drug resistance.

Very true. Lonart is the best. If I have malaria all I have to do is mention Lonart and the parasites go beging dey shiver dey catch cold dey beg me. Whoosai. I no go gree for the malaria. Na so the malaria go run once them see the Lonart

Mercychen:
Op, that your number 4 is not a myth. It's very true The more expensive a drug is the more effective it will be.
I'm talking from personal experience. It happened to me on two occasions.

One was during the lock down. I was down with malaria and typhoid. Then a chemist recommended lonart because I told him I was on a low budget. After taking it, no single relief. Same thing with the cheap typhoid drugs I took.

I then went to a big pharmacy and the pharmacist told me to go for the expensive drugs ( co
Ciprotab and pialaxin) that I should stop *pinching" money. Lo and behold before I finished the course, I was Hale and hearty.

Recently same thing happened.
I bought 800 malaria drugs. Nothing. I now went back and bought pialaxin, immediately after the first dose, I felt instant relief. So brand matters. All these smaller brands don't really work.

You want to compare becham Amoxil with other brands of Amoxil?
This one is a fact.

Expensive in this terms is relative, most time what is important is diagnosis. One may spend 20,000 naira or more for a particular treatment but will get no result, and when same person is asked to pay 4,000 naira by another person for same treatment, the receiver would disregard it thinking of how much that was previously spent. At the end, the 4k treatment will work.

Meanwhile, I think Lonart is more expensive than P-Alaxin.

folks4luv:
Just calm down and learn from a professional, what he said is right. Some drugs are expensive cause of the brand and former patent pharmaceutical companies had on the drugs in the past, which has given them a sort of brand advantage. For example, Beecham.
In your case, it's possible you bought the type of drug the malaria was resistant to or you even bought a fake (there are many fake antimalarial drugs and antibiotics out there), the pharmacist then gave you another generic type and you were ok. P. Alaxin and Lonart are diff compositions. Same with antibiotics.

I'm not a pro, agreed but as e do me for body na him I dey talk.

I'm not a pharmacist.

mu2sa2:
When you drink agbo you're taking herbal concoction together with dirt. The agbo may not work but the dirt may introduce harmful germs into your body which will add to problems.

Exactly!

Anwons:
Expensive in this terms is relative, most time what is important is diagnosis. One may spend 20,000 naira or more for a particular treatment but will get no result, and when same person is asked to pay 4,000 naira by another person for same treatment, the receiver would disregard it thinking of how much that was previously spent. At the end, the 4k treatment will work.

Meanwhile, I think Lonart is more expensive than P-Alaxin.

This is my personal experience. So you expect me to believe ops theory over my experience? Hm.

By the way, in my area, P-Alaxin is more expensive.

Kobojunkie:
ROFLMAO


Illiteracy na serious disease!

What is Funny therr dat you are Laughing n Shining ur teeth?

Pple only believe dat Because the White has a proper drug taste
While the Orange taste nice in the mouth, almost like you are licking Sweets!

This is an eye opener

I've always thought the more expensive a drug is, the more the potency.. Most times I go for expensive anti malaria drugs neglecting the cheaper ones, thinking they are less effective

Does cough syrup really work for common cold cough? Not the infectious cough like TB.
Is it a myth that we should just let the cough run it’s course.