Usually, we can go to the drugstore to buy some cold medicine and stomach medicine to treat our minor physical problems without going to see a doctor. However, if you buy antibiotics from regular pharmacies, you will be rejected. Why?
Drugs are divided into prescription drugs and over-the-counter drugs. Among them, over-the-counter drugs can be purchased by consumers from pharmacies and taken by themselves according to the instructions; Prescription drugs must be prescribed by a doctor before they can be purchased, and they should be used according to the doctor's advice.
Drugs are different from ordinary daily necessities. They are closely related to people's health, and different drugs are tailored to treat different diseases. Once used incorrectly, it may delay treatment and produce side effects. In order to ensure safety, only those drugs that are not easy to use and have good safety will be approved as over-the-counter drugs and allowed to be used by consumers themselves.
The safety of antibiotics is not poor, but they are also listed as prescription drugs and cannot be purchased and used without authorization. This is because when there are inflammatory symptoms such as fever, do you need to use antibiotics? What kind of antibiotics should be used? Such problems are difficult for ordinary people to solve, and people with medical knowledge and experience are needed to make the right choice.
For example, if there are symptoms such as fever and red throat at ordinary times, many are caused by virus infection, and antibiotics are powerless to the virus. Even if they are eaten, they have no effect on treatment. When symptoms appear, if you go to the drugstore to buy antibiotics, it is difficult to make the right choice. If antibiotics are used wrongly, although it may not have great side effects, it may delay the treatment of the disease. The wrong and excessive use of antibiotics will also promote the emergence of drug resistance faster. When the drug-resistant bacteria invade the human body again, the treatment will become very difficult.
Therefore, when you are ill, you should not go to the drugstore to buy antibiotics, but go to the hospital to ask the doctor to formulate a treatment plan.