'The reverse side' of the drug

Drugs can save people, at the same time can cause unforeseen harm to those who use arbitrarily and recklessly; Do not use the disease properly and do not follow the physician's instructions.

The fact that drugs are available, but people are not equipped with medical knowledge in a thorough way, patients automatically use drugs to increase the state of induction to create a premise for drug allergies.

Besides, many drugs when they were born only found benefits on treatment effects but did not see the disadvantages of such drugs. Later, along with time and clinical reality, they reveal the potential for human toxicity. Typically penecillin, at first people kept complaining about its bactericidal effects, but today, penecillin has become one of the most allergy-causing drugs.

Skin damage due to drug allergy (Photo: Science and Health)

Thus drug allergy is a catastrophe, sometimes very dangerous, causing damage to most organs, from the skin to the internal organs . Emergency care and treatment can sometimes become complicated, prolonged and fatal, especially for immediate reactions that patients are far from medical facilities.

However, the prevention of drug allergy is not easy, sometimes even physicians themselves cannot anticipate the response of each patient to a certain drug. But mastering the knowledge and preventive measures is still necessary, certainly helping us to limit many disasters that should not have happened.

First of all, it is necessary to have the right concept about medicine: even if it is rare and expensive, how much is it still a foreign substance, strange substance catches the body must be selected, transformed, absorbed and excreted. Some drugs cause side effects of varying degrees, others may become inducible antigens, creating a precursor to allergies when patients re-use them. So when it's really necessary to use it.

When taking the drug, it must comply with the physician's instructions about dosage and time of use. For example, how many times to take the medicine during the day, when to take the medicine (before or after a meal), abstinence . These compliance cannot be arbitrary. For some drugs, especially for patients with allergic sites, there must be strict regulations: skin reaction test before injection, periodic blood test, liver and kidney function, to detect early Pathological changes may occur.

Patients must also know for themselves to detect the early manifestations of allergies: fatigue, discomfort, hangover, itchy rash, fever, lymph nodes . to alert the physician to promptly stop the medication and manage. If there is a drug allergy, it must be written in the health record so that the physician and the patient absolutely cannot reuse the drug later on because the allergic reaction is more severe later.

For physicians , when prescribing a prescription , it is necessary to determine their lofty responsibility, which can be helpful to the patient and at the same time can cause immeasurable harm to them if they are negligent. So must be very careful, meticulous, consider for each patient, each drug, not for profit but waved a lot of unnecessary drugs, strictly implement the reaction test regime , tracking periodically specified.

Pay attention to the patient's complaints in order to take appropriate timely measures.

With the scientific, serious and careful spirit of physicians as well as patients, they will contribute to overcoming the side effects, especially allergies of drugs.

Doctor Ngo Xuan Nguyet