Ahmedabad: Dr pragnesh Vachcharajani, a general practitioner based in the city, said that for every 10 patients covid they may see, there may be 10 more that happy popping dolo 650 and medicines over-the-counter without medical advice.
“Nowadays, everyone has prescribed medication to be taken – from sore throat pain to the body.
Often, prescription circulates around and medicines taken without a doctor’s knowledge.
This is not a healthy trend,” he said.
When the case Covid reduced in the city during the last two days according to government data, the experts pointed to the base of the iceberg where a lot of the infection may not receive medical assistance at all.
Dr Dilip Gadhvi, president of Ahmedabad Medical Association, said that no such ‘dangerous drugs’.
“Every drug has side effects, and the treating physician to know why some drugs are prescribed for a particular patient.
There may be general medicine, but it should not be generalized.
Drugs are wrong to cause complications,” he said.
Dr Mehul Shah, secretary of the Indian Medical Association, Branch of the State of Gujarat, said that the use of drugs that rational and prudent to be under the guidance of the physician alone.
“Otherwise, we will invite other complications or mask symptoms.
We have seen the effects of steroid use unnecessary in a wave of the past,” he said.
Steroids are very important in the fight against infectious diseases as they come to the rescue of a person during a severe inflammation and cytokine storm.
Used carelessly, they can cause life-threatening side effects such as mukormycosis, as seen in the second wave.