Give ways through which medicines are misused

      

Give ways through which medicines are misused.

  

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Mutiso
• Not following instructions given by a doctor e.g. taking more/less than instructed. Taking little amount is called under dose which can lead to germs to become resistant to an extent that the same medication can not cure a disease. Taking more amounts is called over dose which can cause poisoning or even death.
• When taking medicine not prescribed by a doctor.
• Share or take prescribed medicine meant for other people.
• Incomplete taking all medicine given by a doctor.
• When taking medicine given to us, some other time in thought we are suffering from the same disease as before.
• Taking medicine not stored under the required conditions.
• Taking medicine when not sick.



- Overdosing or under dosing
- Using another persons prescription
- Not following the prescription given by a doctor
- Using medicine for the wrong disease
Mutiso answered the question on October 7, 2018 at 15:29


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