Abstract
Antibiotics are medical products designed to cure or avoid bacterial infections that should be administered to patients based on a licensed health care professional's directive. Self-medication is defined as the usage of medication, whether orthodox or traditional, for self-cure. The practice of antibiotics self-treatment is a global phenomenal. Indulgence of antibiotics self-medication had crippled the lives of many people with increase antibiotics resistance bacterial and disruption of gut microbiota. The practice of antibiotics self-medication was sustained and reinforced by easy information access on antibiotics uses and the accessibility of antibiotics in the environments. The menace of this practice is abruptly stoppage of the treatment when symptoms disappeared because of inadequate idea of the ailment. The best way to discourage antibiotics self-medication is to take the campaign to all stakeholders in antibiotics dealings to reduce the inflow of antibiotics and as well as to educate patient on the inherent dangers.
Highlights
Globally, public consciousness has been raised of the routine use and prevalence of self-medication antibiotics, as well as health risks associated with the prescribing of antibiotics by non-infectious disease doctors and antibiotics dispensed without proper prescription by pharmacies (Jamhour et al, 2017)
Antibiotics are medications designed to cure or prevent bacterial infections, which are prescribed to patients by a licensed health care professional's directive (Ajibola et al, 2018)
Self-medication had become a general practice. People find it easy to purchase antibiotics from chemist without prescription or any advice from physicians because of their previous success in similar treatment and ability to mention the name of the antibiotics of their interest
Summary
Public consciousness has been raised of the routine use and prevalence of self-medication antibiotics, as well as health risks associated with the prescribing of antibiotics by non-infectious disease doctors and antibiotics dispensed without proper prescription by pharmacies (Jamhour et al, 2017).Sulfa medication was the reining medicine embraced all over the world prior to the plentiful development of penicillin in the 1940s (Keeney et al, 2014). Antibiotics are medications designed to cure or prevent bacterial infections, which are prescribed to patients by a licensed health care professional's directive (Ajibola et al, 2018).
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