Working Together to Protect the Safety of Your Prescription Drugs

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Pooja khaitan Pooja khaitan Partnership for Safe Medicines (PSM) IndiaPartnership for Safe Medicines (PSM) India

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Oakridge International School, Hyderabad Oakridge International School, Hyderabad

Working Together to Protect the Safety of Your Prescription Drugs

A disease is an abnormal condition that affects the body of an organism. It is often construed as a medical condition associated with specific symptoms and signs .

Disorder is a disturbance of structure due to genetic failure as a result of exogenous factors.

TOP TEN KILLERS IN OUR COMMUNITY(1) Heart Disease(2) Cancer(3) AID/HIV Virus(4) Depression(5) Homicide(6) Paralyses (7) Diabetes(8) Pneumonia(9) Pulmonary disease(10) Infant deaths

•Negative/suppressed emotions•Acid forming diet (all meats, poultry, dairy and most oils•Heavy metals such as lead and mercury and other toxic metals used in dental amalgams fillings•Lack of enough water•Processed food Chlorine or Fluoride in water•Chemicals in food such as pesticides, insecticides,

herbicide, etc.

•MEDICINES are substances that are made in laboratories by chemists, biologists, pharmacists

•10,000 compounds are made before a medicine is ready with all correct properties to cure a disease

•Natural resources like plants and trees

•Illness comes from GERMS

•Body’s IMMUNE SYSTEM works to fight off the invaders

•Medicines help immune system to fight the germs

When the doctor gives us medicines, we get better ,

HOW?

What Should the Indian Consumers What Should the Indian Consumers Expect from PSM India Initiative?Expect from PSM India Initiative?

•Different parts of the body have KEYHOLES called receptors

•Medicine is like a KEY

•Medicine is designed to fit perfectly into the correct receptor to make you better

Proposed Way ForwardProposed Way Forward

TYPES OF MEDICINES

1. Antibiotics – they kill germs called bacteria

2. Pain Relievers or Symptom Soothers – help in making you feel better while getting wellEx. Throat lozenges, itch relief creams

3. Controllers – these medicines control illness that don’t go away Ex. Diabetes, asthma, blood pressure

4. Immunizations – important medicines that keep you from getting sick in the first place. Usually given as a shot.Ex. Measels , chickenpox

WAYS TO TAKE MEDICINEWAYS TO TAKE MEDICINE Swallow – Swallow – pill or liquid . Once swallowed the pill or liquid . Once swallowed the

digestive juices in the stomach break it down. digestive juices in the stomach break it down. Medicine passes in the blood stream. Blood Medicine passes in the blood stream. Blood carries it to other parts of the body. carries it to other parts of the body.

IV – IV – if need immediate effect then IV . This makes if need immediate effect then IV . This makes medicine get into the blood quickly .medicine get into the blood quickly .

WAYS TO TAKE WAYS TO TAKE MEDICINEMEDICINE

Shots – Shots – these are these are given under the given under the skin. They are then skin. They are then absorbed into the absorbed into the blood stream. The blood stream. The medicine wouldnmedicine wouldn’’t t work if the digestive work if the digestive juices broke them juices broke them down. down.

Directly on the spot Directly on the spot – – putting ointment putting ointment on an infected cut on an infected cut or dropping or dropping eardrops into a eardrops into a clogged ear. clogged ear.

WHERE DO WHERE DO MEDICINES COME MEDICINES COME FROM ?FROM ?

Scientists in Scientists in Pharmaceutical Pharmaceutical companies companies make make medicine .medicine .

Pharmaceutical Pharmaceutical companies supply companies supply medicine to the medicine to the Pharmacy.Pharmacy.

Medicine is now ready for Medicine is now ready for you to pick up when you you to pick up when you take your take your Prescription. Prescription.

WHAT ARE PRESCRIPTIONS ? WHAT ARE PRESCRIPTIONS ?

They are They are ‘‘vouchers for medicinevouchers for medicine’’ , written , written by the doctor after he decides what is by the doctor after he decides what is wrong with you. wrong with you.

They tell us They tell us which medicinewhich medicine we need, we need, how muchhow much we need to take and we need to take and how how oftenoften we should take it. we should take it.

MIND YOUR MEDICINE

So medicines sound like a pretty good thing ?

YES, BUT ONLY IF USED CORRECTLY .

CAUTION

•Too much is harmful •Read label•Old and Expired •Wrongly prescribed•Always follow doctors instructions

BEWARE OF FAKE AND SUBSTANDARD MEDICINES

Use of sophisticated technologies for fakes

MAKE SURE YOUMAKE SURE YOU

ALWAYS BUY ALWAYS BUY

MEDICINES BY MEDICINES BY

SHOWING A SHOWING A

PRESCRIPTIONPRESCRIPTION

Never purchase Never purchase medicines without medicines without a prescription !!a prescription !!

Medicine SAFETY RULES :

CHECK LABEL: is it crooked ?does the packaging look clean and correctly sealed?

APPEARANCE of MEDICATION : are the pills cracked ? Does it appear a shade different from earlier prescription?

TASTE: does it have the same taste as before ?

DANGEROUS DRUGS HAVE BEEN GLOBALLY DISCARDED BUT ARE AVAILABLE IN INDIA

PHENYLPROPANALAMINE : cold and cough; Reason for ban: Stroke ; Brand name : Vicks Action-500

ANALGIN: pain killer; Reason for ban: Bone Marrow; Brand Name : Novalgin

FURAZOLIDONE : antidiarrhoeal .Reason for ban: Cancer ; Brand Name : Furoxone, Lomofen

NIMESULIDE : fever; Reason for ban: Liver failure ; Brand Name : Nise, Nimulid

AVOID THESE TABLETS AS THEY ARE VERY DANGEROUS D coldVicks action- 500ActifiedColdarinCo someNiceNimulidCetrizet-D

They contain Phenyl- Propanol -Amide PPA.Which Causes strokes, and these tablets are banned in U.S.

NEVER TAKE MEDICATION ON YOUR OWN …..ALWAYS CONSULT A DOCTOR BEFORE YOU POP PILLS !!Remember…. a doctor knows BEST !

Health & Safety of the Patients Should Always Prevail Over Profit

Access to SAFE

MEDICINES is a

HUMAN RIGHT

Just One unsafe Medicine Threatens Patient Safety… we all must work together to educate and to help

protect patients around the globe

Every Govt. must be committed to the safety of

prescription drugs and protecting consumers against Spurious, counterfeit, falsified,

substandard or otherwise unsafe medicines

Comprised of more than 50 non-profit organizations, the Partnership for Safe Medicines (PSM) India is a

public health group committed to the safety of prescription drugs and protecting consumers

against Spurious, substandard or otherwise unsafe medicines.

Please feel free to visit us at

www.safemedicinesindia.in

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Q.1. Medicines are made ….a. in schools

b. in laboratories c. in space

Quiz Time

Quiz Time

Q.2. Medicines help the _______system to fight germs .

a. Respiratory b. Digestive c. Immune

Quiz Time

Q.3. MEDICINE IS LIKE A ……

a. bookb. bat

c. key

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Q.4. __________kills germs called Bacteria .

a. Antibiotics b. Batman

c. Chota Bheem

Quiz Time

Q.5. Once swallowed,what breaks the medicine in the stomach ?

a. hammer b. Stone

c. digestive juices

Quiz Time

Q.6. Pharmaceutical companiessupply medicine to whom ?

a. The Pharmacyb. The Scientists

c. The circus

Quiz Time

Q.7. What is a voucher for medicine called?

a. Prescription b.Subscription

c. Television

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Q.8. When taking medicines whose Instructions must we always follow ?

a. Friend b. Doctor

c.News channel

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Q.9. When buying medicines from a Pharmacy, what must we check?

a. Your favourite colourb. Expiry date of medicine

c. Time of purchase

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Q.10. We must always buy medicines by showing a __________ .

a. Prescription b. School certificate

c. Ben 10 gadget