Have you ever get Flu ? Everyones must be ever get flu. But, have you ever read the information in its package ? You've ever read but you don't understand it ?
In this post I'll try to explain about information in flu medicine.
a. Indication (Indikasi) : it means the use of the medicine. The use of medicine must match with its indication. Or in other words, indication means the diseases or symptoms that could relieved by the medicine. Read the indication and you'll get it !
b. Contraindication (Kontraindikasi) : it means a body condition where someone can't take the medicine. For example, if you find a medicine which the contraindication is hypertension, it means that a person who has hypertension can't take the medicine because if he/she takes the medicine, it will lead him/her to something more dangerous.
c. Decongestion (Dekongestan) used for relieve congestion nose.
d. Analgesic (Analgesik) used for relieve pain.
e. Antipyretic (Antipiretik) used for releive fever.
f. Antihistamine (antihistamine) used for lose the allergy.
g. Tachycardia (takirdi): it means heart beat increment. On the other hand, bradycardia (bradikardi) means heart beat decrement.
h. Arrhythmia (aritmia) : it means disorders of the rhythm of the heart.
i. Urine retention (retensi urin) : the decrement of urine that excreted because urine retention.
j. Palpitation : a condition where occurs the strength increment of heart contraction, the heart beat stronger.
Ok, for a while that's all i can tell u..
If you still don't understand about the informations in a medicine, ask a pharmacist to explain it for you. Don't be shy or taboo because it's your right to get a counsel from a pharmacist and it's a pharmacist duty to give a counsel and education about medicine to the patients.
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