Often, the doctors advise half a pill two or three times a day. It has been researched that splitting pills is dangerous for patients. How can a patient take half of a pill without splitting. The drug companies should better manufacture pills of small size equivalent to one time dose so as to avoid splitting a pill in two parts.
http://www.sify.com/news/splitting-pills-in-half-is-dangerous-news-international-lbhj4fecfed.html
5 Replies
sarala wrote:
[quote]sleeping bills are dangerous, especially having sleeping pills daily may give side effects.[/quote]
Sleeping pills are definitely dangerous. But here we are concerned with breaking of a pill in parts. Suppose doctor advises half a pill morning, afternoon and evening, what you do. You have to break the pills and eat. This is dangerous according to the report. So, the companies should manufacture small pills so that patients need not break the pill in small parts.
[quote]sleeping bills are dangerous, especially having sleeping pills daily may give side effects.[/quote]
Sleeping pills are definitely dangerous. But here we are concerned with breaking of a pill in parts. Suppose doctor advises half a pill morning, afternoon and evening, what you do. You have to break the pills and eat. This is dangerous according to the report. So, the companies should manufacture small pills so that patients need not break the pill in small parts.
Thanks for sharing link with us Gulshan! I was unaware of this fact and in my experience so are the doctors who many times prescribe such doses!
After release of this study, I guess it is necessary for the doctors to be educated on the pharmacological aspects of such prescriptions that go against the nature of the medicines functionality!
After release of this study, I guess it is necessary for the doctors to be educated on the pharmacological aspects of such prescriptions that go against the nature of the medicines functionality!
Topic Author
G
Gulshan Kumar Ajmani
@gkajmani
Topic Stats
Created
Friday, 07 January 2011 15:39
Last Updated
Tuesday, 30 November -0001 00:00
Replies
0
Views
1.1K
Likes
0