Question

1. What is Self-Medication ?
Ans:-
Self-medication is referred to treating an illness or any other common health problem without consulting a doctor or medical supervision.​

Answer 1

Answer:

: the act or process of medicating oneself especially without the advice of a physician : self-treatment For chronic coughs, self-medication with cough remedies is usually inappropriate, and most doctors discourage their use. —

Explanation:

The most important reasons for self-medication were perceived self-medication harmless (41%), having history of a disease (35.5%), and availability of medications at home (34%). The most frequent diseases for self-medication were fatigue, weakness, and anxiety (24%), and fever (20%).

• Self-medication might seem right at first, but one needs to consider the potential side effects of such uninformed actions. Self-medication can lead to drug addiction, allergy, habituation, worsening of ailment, incorrect diagnosis and dosage, or even disability and pre-mature death.

Good self-medication can also provide benefits such as: Saving scarce medical resources from being wasted on minor conditions. Lowering the costs of community funded health care programs. Reducing absenteeism from work due to minor symptoms.