Is that a Medical Fashion?

Ankit Balyan
Aug 22, 2017 · 7 min read

The growing living standards has got everything to one’s doorstep, may it be the latest fashion, amazon or Myntra might help you, or be it drugs, I guess you know who will help you, don’t you? No offense, but literally those offensive people will give you any drug you want because we don’t give a damn to the stupid intellects who spent two years of their life preparing for some exam, get selected, study like I don’t know what for over 5 years, practice for over 10 years only to be called quacks whose advice on a subject which they specialize in is not worthy enough to be taken. Because the real doctors are actually those chemists who give you medicines on the basis of the diagnosis done probably by our fathers, and prescription signed by us ourselves.

I hope you know which drugs I m talking about, I am not accusing the chemist turn doctors of selling you those weeds but the usual medicines particularly antibiotics which we take without realizing the hazardous complications that could besiege us. In a recent talk with an mbbs doctor, he told me that it is illegal to sell antibiotics without prescription, now you will say that you knew that already, but what I am saying is that despite knowing this fact why were you indulging in this illegal process. A little research brought to light some things which we can’t even imagine could happen by taking a medicine as common as the drug most of us take, Allegra, yes, this is presently the best known drug for curing inflammation of your throat and nose and is easily available with no requirements of any crappy prescription. Those who think I am making a mountain out of a molehill, please read further..

  1. Antibiotics (anti: against, biotic: life), this does not mean that they are harmful to us but actually they are against the bad bacteria which may harm us, or are causing us a disease. But antibiotics are not that specific, they might destroy the good bacteria, which Yakult is always talking about, along with the good ones. And we perspicacious people take these medicines so frequently that we end up harming our helpful gut dwellers and bring their population to dangerously low levels.
  2. Some people are allergic to antibiotics such as intravenous penicillin injection, and before doctors (real ones) prescribe such antibiotics to the patient, they make the patient undergo an allergy test and then only prescribe it to someone. But we, the beautiful people, if take them without undergoing that test, then it could be life threatening, and let me tell you, death might sound beautiful in poetic sense but to be very true it is not at all beautiful.
  3. Another reason which might sound a little confusing and less related to you is the concept of super bug. Most of us take these medicines and stop the course in between as soon as we stop experiencing the symptoms, but the fading symptoms is just a signal that you are getting cured not that you have got cured completely. The body still has the pathogens which gradually adapt to the antibiotics, and soon after they become resistant to it, in the end costing us the effectivity of these medicines. The problem just increases as the number of effective antibiotics gets lower. The pathogen soon after is called the super bug, or the resistant bug.
  4. Many Diseases produce overlapping symptoms. Many times the initial symptoms of some serious ailment are suppressed due to the consumption of medicines without consulting the doctor. Such diseases prove to be life threatening in future, though they can be easily cured if spotted earlier which we people don’t want to happen, so, we take medicines on our own thinking the doctors are some stupids.

I wish I could change the mentality of all those elites who have become more intelligent than the doctors but here is my small piece of advice so that at least some of us could understand the reality that we are not doctors till we do mbbs, i.e., Bachelor of surgery and medicine, MBA or BSc does not give you any right to shit around regarding medicines. PEACE out!!

The growing living standards has got everything to one’s doorstep, may it be the latest fashion, amazon or myntra might help you, or be it drugs, I guess you know who will help you, don’t you? No offence, but literally those offensive people will give you any drug you want because we don’t give a damn to the stupid intellects who spent two years of their life preparing for some exam, get selected, study like I don’t know what for over 5 years, practice for over 10 years only to be called quacks whose advice on a subject which they specialize in is not worthy enough to be taken. Because the real doctors are actually those chemists who give you medicines on the basis of the diagnosis done probably by our fathers, and prescription signed by us ourselves.

I hope you know which drugs I m talking about, I am not accusing the chemist turn doctors of selling you those weeds but the usual medicines particularly antibiotics which we take without realizing the hazardous complications that could besiege us. In a recent talk with an mbbs doctor, he told me that it is illegal to sell antibiotics without prescription, now you will say that you knew that already, but what I am saying is that despite knowing this fact why were you indulging in this illegal process. A little research brought to light some things which we can’t even imagine could happen by taking a medicine as common as the drug most of us take, Allegra, yes, this is presently the best known drug for curing inflammation of your throat and nose and is easily available with no requirements of any crappy prescription. Those who think I am making a mountain out of a molehill, please read further.

Antibiotics (anti: against, biotic: life), this does not mean that they are harmful to us but actually they are against the bad bacteria which may harm us, or are causing us a disease. But antibiotics are not that specific, they might destroy the <strong>good bacteria</strong>, which Yakult is always talking about, along with the good ones. And we perspicacious people take these medicines so frequently that we end up harming our helpful gut dwellers and bring their population to dangerously low levels.

Good Bacteria

Some people are allergic to antibiotics such as intravenous penicillin injection, and before doctors (real ones) prescribe such antibiotics to the patient, they make the patient undergo an allergy test and then only prescribe it to someone. But we, the beautiful people, if take them without undergoing that test, then it could be life threatening, and let me tell you, death might sound beautiful in poetic sense but to be very true it is not at all beautiful.

Another reason which might sound a little confusing and less related to you is the concept of super bug. Most of us take these medicines and stop the course in between as soon as we stop experiencing the symptoms, but the fading symptoms is just a signal that you are getting cured not that you have got cured completely. The body still has the pathogens which gradually adapt to the antibiotics, and soon after they become resistant to it, in the end costing us the the efficacy of these medicines. The problem just increases as the number of effective antibiotics gets lower. The pathogen soon after is called the super bug, or the resistant bug.

Many Diseases produce overlapping symptoms. Many times the initial symptoms of some serious ailment are suppressed due to the consumption of medicines without consulting the doctor. Such diseases prove to be life threatening in future, though they can be easily cured if spotted earlier which we people don’t want to happen, so, we take medicines on our own thinking the doctors are some stupids. Also what we always take as some bacterial infection, might be a viral infection, and do you know what antibiotics can do to rhinoviruses which are causing you that common cold,to be very true, they can’t do anything.

I wish I could change the mentality of all those elites who have become more intelligent than the doctors but here is my small piece of advice so that at least some of us could understand the reality that we are not doctors till we do MBBS, i.e., Bachelor of surgery and medicine, MBA or B.Sc does not give you any right to shit around regarding medicines. PEACE out!!

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