How to assemble a home first aid kit and not to run into counterfeit drugs
Android Ios / / December 19, 2019
Buying over the counter medications, you run the risk to buy a fake. "Your Pharmacist" - a convenient mobile application that will verify you purchased the original product or useless fake, and at the same time will help keep track of medications in your home medicine cabinet and control the reception of medicines are strictly for recipe.
Why in the home medicine cabinet should be an order
Do you remember what medicines you have at home and what is their shelf life? On a positive response I did not expect: very few people seriously bother with such information. It seems that there are some tablets, like not past, that's nice. Such carelessness sooner or later goes sideways.
Once the author of this article has managed to fall off the high temperature and other delights of SARS. It's okay, it is quite common. If absolutely pripechot, the temperature can be brought down with paracetamol banal, which is in every home medicine cabinet.
The results of examining the contents of a tin box of biscuit, which contained drugs, were curious. There found a and paracetamol, and furatsilin for a sore throat, but the shelf life that the fact that the other has expired. When the apartment to move, holding the wall, go to a pharmacy - not an option. Of the entire arsenal of tools available to combat the disease in my possession remains only warm drink. Interesting experience, do not want to go through that to anyone.
Moral: in the medicine cabinet should reign perfect order.
Iterate over it from time to time on the subject of drugs, the expiration date of which came to an end, and if a certain drug is ended immediately replenish its reserves. Nothing complicated, but in fact everything about it forget. If you are not relying memory, save your mobile app "your Pharmacist». It will help keep the condition of your home medicine cabinet under constant review.
How it works
"Your Pharmacist" - a kind of personal pharmacist he will check whether you are going to buy a fake, remember, when you want to take medicine, and will tell you exactly how it should be used.
Price: Free
Price: Free
If you have children or elderly relatives, the need for certain medications at home - at least banal funds from burns or drugs that reduce the pressure - and not subject to questioned. With the application you can create a first aid kit for their parents and timely purchase drugs that are already on the wane.
The algorithm is as follows: check of the barcode, if the drug is included in the register of medicinal products withdrawn from circulation, if everything is in order - add a first aid kit. Be sure to specify the expiration date, and note how many pills left in the pack.
For each drug, "Your Pharmacist" prepared a detailed instruction - before taking the drug can consult the list of contraindications and clarify the dosage. secret developers told us that the app learns more quickly and tells what it means lacking in your medicine cabinet.
When the parallel need to take multiple drugs with different dosage, it is easy to get confused when and what to drink. Carrying a recipe - not an option. Practice shows that sooner or later it will simply be lost. "Your Pharmacist" will help keep all the recipes at your fingertips: simply photograph them and should be checked with the recommendations given by your doctor.
As is the case with a home first aid kit, this feature will be useful for those who follow the health of children or elderly relatives. If they forget, for whatever scheme you need to take medicines, you will always be able to control the treatment process.
How to check the quality of the medicines you are taking
According Roszdravnadzor the Russian Federation - the body that monitors compliance of the mandatory requirements of medicines to their quality - it was seized a total of 1938 episodes of medicines in 2016 from circulation funds. This poor-quality drugs and fake, and counterfeit pharmaceuticals.
Do not want to bump into the low-grade horror stories, but the fact remains that not every medicine, acquired in our pharmacies, you can call those. Fake, it appears even ethanol.
«your Pharmacist"- Russia's only mobile service for authentication of medicinal products. With it, you can easily and quickly determine whether there is in your home medicine cabinet substandard drugs.
The process takes just 15 seconds: you scan the barcode on the packaging of the drug, and then enter the serial number.
"Your Pharmacist" checks to see if a drug such series in the register of medicinal products withdrawn from circulation Roszdravnadzor, and make the appropriate verdict.
Even if the drug gets into the registry after you've added it to the first-aid kit, the app will let you know that this drug has not passed the test Roszdravnadzor. The significance of such reminders be overestimated, because in the case of drugs error price can be very high.
Total
"Your Pharmacist" is useful and fans to keep everything under control, and forgetful citizens. Even if its capabilities were limited to drug testing, he already would have been extremely useful. Add to this list of drugs in the medicine chest, recipes and storage instructions base - the result is obvious. "Your Pharmacist" - the application of the category of must-have.
Price: Free
Price: Free