Medications are not candy, and antibiotics are certainly not, and it is important to understand them and have adequate control over them.This is exactly why many people are unable to obtain and take There is no prior medical prescription.
In recent hours, a woman became the subject of an article on her social networks, in which she complained A pharmacist did not want to sell some medicines to her two-year-old son There is no doctor’s prescription for them, and doctors don’t recommend them.
“His cough kept both his father and me awake”
“Yesterday I had an argument with the girl at the pharmacy because she didn’t want to sell me medicine for my two-year-old son in Spain,” the woman began to explain. The little boy had been suffering from gastroenteritis for three days and had a bad cough “due to the virus”:Don’t let my father sleep with me“.
He assured that he had been to the hospital before and Doctor recommends paracetamol Reduce fever and give plenty of fluids to relieve congestion.
However, since she didn’t have a prescription, the doctor refused, explaining that “in Spain they don’t usually give antibiotics or cough syrup to children under three years old.”I come to you in despair.I don’t want anything free“For the health of my son and his parents, we don’t sleep,” he replied, despite the fact that no doctor prescribed any medication.
The pharmacist course has accumulated more than 20,000 likes
Pharmacist Guille Martín (@farmaceutico_guille) did not hesitate to respond to the woman at the request of her followers and left with a real lesson. “The answer is always the same: Don’t argue with a pharmacist because you might lose”, began to spread.
Furthermore, he assured that if “something” requires a prescription, “it’s because it requires a prescription, not a whim.” “If you have a two-year-old and he gets sick, take him to the pediatrician unless you don’t want to continue having him,” he advises, concluding by clarifying that antibiotics are not effective against viruses: “I don’t know what’s wrong with giving a child five antibiotics. Whenever his fever goes up a degree… No! “