Medication
By jidesh
@jidesh (283)
Canada
April 4, 2008 2:52pm CST
We live in a world where we have medicine or antibiotics for almost everything. You have a headache? Take some aspirin. You have strep throat? Drink some antibiotics. Can't sleep at night? Take a narcotic. Liquids, pills, inhalants, and more. You turn around and take more medicine. When do we say enough is enough? People are taking aspirin every day, bacteria is getting resistent, and people are hooked on sleep meds. If we keep up taking medicine after medicine, something bad might happen with our bodies, and then everything is going to move in on us. Where do you draw the line?
I think medicine is for absolute necessity. (Some horrible infection or something.) I try to follow an example my mother's side of the family has set. My grandparents never took medication. And they're alive and healthy in their 70s. More natural cures need to be made instead of pills and pills and pills.
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@kezabelle (2974)
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4 Apr 08
I only give medicines to myself and my children when absolutley needed, for example my little girl has a nasty ear infection its so bad her ear drum was bulging she has antibiotics and also parecetemol for the pain and temperature. Me im suffering with a cold right now but I dont take anything for it fresh air for colds is the best thing I think anyway so we went to the park.
I think there should be more natural remedies or solutions to problems like being unable to sleep and medication should be a last resort only
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@Ldyjarhead (10233)
• United States
4 Apr 08
I take very little medication.
If I get a bad headache, one tylenol will do the trick.
On the rare occasion that I need a true painkiller, I can take less than half of the recommended dosage and that is more than enough.
I rarely if ever take cold/flu meds. They don't do anything but treat symptoms, so I tough it out. (Actually, since I don't use chemicals in my cleaning/personal care products anymore, I rarely get sick!).
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@a_robinnep (529)
• Nepal
5 Apr 08
We live in the world where every medicine is available. I take medicine when its need. I think care of health is good.
@jhonymax2cool (424)
• India
5 Apr 08
hi i think u r right but v can't forget the fact that in todays world everybody wants things to happen fast just like that.this makes us very hooked to pills cause they react fast .u have a haedache u take a aspirin gone just like that.but in case of natural medicine or herbal or homeopathy u have to wait for it to cure .although its very effective and has least side effects but it takes time and thats when v decide that pills are better of i cant wait to get well.so i think it would take time for us to switch to nature's cure rather than pills.v know the line is there v just dont wanna get to it cause its our nature(that is human nature,to go for fast and easy way).
@tops76 (289)
• India
5 Apr 08
Yes jidesh,I agree with you that we should take take medicines specially those allopathic medicines in extreme case. As far as possible we should rely on natural medicines, medicines made from the extracts of herbs. I don't know about the western culture but from the region from where I belong, we largely rely on natural way of treating the symptoms. And in most cases about 95% cases it is successful.
Apart from this there are some other alternatives are there like YOGA, MEDITATION, Clay Therapy etc. which is gaining popularity as alternative method for curing an ailments.
@sunshinelady (7609)
• United States
5 Apr 08
I agree with you one hundred percent. The thing about medicines also is the side effects a lot of them have. Sometimes the side effects are worse than the sickness. My son believes the same way. He is a person who does a lot of research and he doesn't like what he has learned. He has often said that medicines are a big pharmacitical business. They don't want people to be well. They wouldn't be making any money.
@gemini_rose (16264)
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5 Apr 08
You are so right, doctors seem to prescribe antibiotics for the slightest thing these days. My eldest is 16 now, but when he was little he was always ill, being a first time mum I always used to take him to the doctors for everything and he would always be prescribed antibiotics. I started to think to myself that eventually these would not work if he kept having them. SO the next time he was ill I just tried home remedies instead and they worked just as well. Now I do not go to the doctors unless it is absolutely necessary and I try things the old fashioned way as much as I can without the help of medicines.
