Reasons To Take Drugs According To Prescribed Duration And Frequency
Medications are meant to diagnose, prevent, treat, manage, etc of disease. To achieve any of the above, the medication is to be taken as prescribed. The formula, strength, dosage, dosage frequency and duration depends on the severity of the disease, type of drug, age of the patient and so many other factors. One thing many patients find hard to understand is why take a drug more than once. They believe that many drugs especially antibiotics stay in the body for a very long time or even for life hence achieve therapeutic effects. This wrong notion is preventing some from getting better with drugs. This is because they fail to adhere to their prescribed medication. Read Also : Information needed by patient in a drug information leaflet Disease conditions are of two natures. Some are caused by living things while the others are caused by change in the body physiology. The drugs used to treat both work in different ways. Drugs that treat change in body physiology tend to correct it...
