13 Ways To Prevent Recurrent Urinary Tract Infections

13 Ways to Prevent Recurrent Urinary Tract Infections

Prevent Recurrent Urinary Tract Infections – Are you continuously having symptoms of Urinary Tract Infection even after treatment? Are you still feeling that burning sensation while urinating or the cloudy foul-smelling urine? This may be a result of Recurrent urinary tract infection (rUTI). Nevertheless, a recurrent urinary tract infection is defined as an infection of the urinary system that occurs three consecutive times within 6 months.

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What is Prescription – Types | Parts | How to Avoid Errors with Prescription

All Drugs according to Paracelsus are poisons, the difference between a real poison and a drug is just the dose. Therefore, the medical team tries to limit the misuse of these potentially harmful substances known as the Prescription Only Medicines (POM).Β  Nevertheless, the instruction is that the pharmacist must receive authorization from a Legitimate Prescriber before issuing this type of drug.

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Drug Therapy Problems – Causes | Classes | Consequences | Role of pharmacist

According to Paracelsus, a Swiss Physician, β€œAll things are poison and nothing is without poison; only the dose makes a thing, not a poison.” This means that irrational or erroneous use of drugs can be very detrimental to health and one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality associated with drug therapy problems (DTPs).

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Anabolic steroid abuse – Health implications & How to withdraw

Steroid abuse has been on the high increase in society today. Inappropriate use of Steroids can produce so many Adverse drug reactions which can be life-threatening on a long term use. The problem of steroid abuse affects different strata and ages of the society ranging from professionals, Business people, Athletes, fitness trainers, and even school-age children.

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Pharmacovigilance – How To Report An Adverse Drug Event

Pharmacovigilance

So many questions come when trying to ascertain the safety of our drugs in circulation. Such questions include; are all drugs safe? who is to decide which drugs than t are safe and the ones that are not? If eventually there is any that is not safe, who are we to report to? how can we monitor the safety of drugs? These and so many other questions with regards to drug safety fall under the scope of pharmacovigilance.

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