1Assistant Professor, Dept. of Community Medicine, Sree Balaji Medical College and Hospital, Bharath Institute of Higher Education and Research, Chennai, India
*Corresponding Author: Dr. P. Mohan Kumar, Dept. of Community Medicine, Sree Balaji Medical College and Hospital, Bharath Institute of Higher Education and Research, Chennai-73, Email: suvasammohan@gmail.com, Mob. No: 9566169453
Online published on 27 March, 2020.
The idea of self-prescription has increased all inclusive acknowledgment as it urges a person to treat minor disease with successful and straightforward cures. It is even elevated in order to have self-confidence in preventive, therapeudic and rehabilitative consideration. Self-medicine can conceivably progress nicely and furthermore hurt the individuals. This is particularly huge in those nations where physician recommended medications are accessible over-the-counter (OTC) because of absence of requirement of guidelines. An enhanced danger of intensifying of existing ailment pathology just as danger of collaborations between doctor prescribed prescription and concealed dynamic elements of OTC medications are constantly present with self-medicine.
Medication, OTC, urban
