Useful tips to buy allopathic medicines

A human body is like a machine and as a machine, it sometimes goes out-of-order and needs to repair. A proper treatment or prognosis together with the timely intake of medicines in the right doses recover the humans from problems. Hence, it is your duty to follow the doctor's instructions carefully. Buying these cautiously and taking the right doses at the right time saves you from any unwelcome problems. You need to keep certain crucial things in mind like two medicinal drugs may have the same pronunciation, but they may slightly vary in spelling and greatly in function. Sometimes, a particular medicine may get out of stock or market and before taking any alternate medicine you must make sure to check with your doctor.

Tips to buy allopathic medicines

1. When buying allopathic medicines, first make sure to check the expiry date.


2. Next, it is important to see if the name of the medicine, written on the prescription exactly matches with the name of the medicine you are prescribed by your doctor.


3. Check out, if the dose matches because even a small variation may result in a big difference when it comes about your well-being. Suppose, you are given a medicine of 0.5 doses by the physician. Sometimes, if it is not available, a chemist may give you a dose of 0.25 so that you take two of them at a time. The problem aggravates, when you do not understand this or perhaps forget to consume two at a time.


4. Consider another instance, when you need to take 0.25 medicine dose and the chemist gives you a medicine of 0.50 doses. Here, you have to break the medicine into two equal halves to get your required dose. However, you may have rare possibility of breaking the medicine equally into two halves no matter what mechanism you follow. Though, it is wrong for a chemist to sell medicines if the right doses are not available, but you also need to make your own decision in such situations.


5. Ideally, chemists should intimate the customers if the exact doses are not available to them. After this, a customer should make the decision whether to buy them from the same shop or to search on other medical shops.


6. Another common situation is when a medicine written on the prescription is not available, a chemist suggests an alternative medicine of the same composition. They may have experience to advise or suggest alternative medical drugs, but it is also your duty to check out with your doctor if the alternate medicine is best for you.


7. Besides, when you go to your physician for a medical check-up, it is your duty to see and understand the prescription right way. Normally, doctors explain the patients about the doses and when to take them, but it is also the duty of patients to understand the doses and, if there is any doubt, one must clear it then and there. When one understands the prescribed list in a proper way later it becomes easier to buy and take the medicines.

Better understandings of the doctor's prescription helps

• How long to continue the medicine


• Make sure to understand the doses the right way and when to take and how many to take.


• Find out either to take the medicine before the breakfast, lunch and dinner or after the breakfast, lunch and dinner.


• Ask your physician with courtesy, if the prescribed medicinal drugs are easily available and if not ask him/her to suggest a few other alternate names.


• If you allergic to any types of medicinal drugs make sure to tell the same to your doctor.


• If you face any tummy related problem with a particular type of medicine make sure to tell your doctor about the same.


• If you feel sick again with the same infection, avoid taking the previously prescribed dosages. Visit your doctor for a thorough check-up.