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The French tend to self-medicate more and more. But this practice is not without risk. The National Agency for the Safety of Medicines and Health Products is issuing the alert. The point with Damien Mascret, doctor and journalist on the set of 12/13.
The drug agency is launching a campaign to raise awareness of the proper use of drugs, to enable the French to reduce self-medication. She offers lots of advice. The first tip is to respect the prescription of the drug. “Gold, three french on ten themselves adjust the dose or duration of the prescribed medication. In some case, it’s not serious but with others, such as antibiotics if you do not take the whole dose until the end, you risk a relapse a few days more late because the treatment will not have cleaned all the bacteria that remain”says Damien Mascret.
Do not mix drugs alone
The second advice is not to mix drugs. “A French on five take higher doses, or take multiple medications. The risk, it is not only not to increase the efficiency, but in addition to increasing the undesirable effects“continues the doctor and journalist.
Ie third drug agency advice is not to lend their medication to another person, “meven to someone who has the same symptoms as you, because your medication may be dangerous for him for reasons unknown to you. Nevertheless, a nobody on two sometimes does, and one person on ten often does“, Damien concludes Mascret.