Abstract

GENERAL FACTS OF MEDICINES AND DISPENSING CONSIDERATIONS – AN OVERVIEW

Ramanathan M.* and Manikandan S.

ABSTRACT

Day by day Medicine consuming is increasing due to the proportional gradient of infectious and non-infectious (non-communicable) disease. Medicines makes lot of beneficial things to human, even though it have some own limitations. Medicines are double edged weapons have to handle cautiously. Patient counselling is important for those who take long term medication, eg. Hypertensive, Diabetes, Neurological disorder etc. Pharmacist and patient interaction will minimize the noncompliance and thus produce better outcome. Making patient awareness about disease and medicine is the responsibility of pharmacist. Patient noncompliance can be solved by appropriate counselling, instruction, console and compassion. This overview briefly focus on patient awareness and basic drug related information for better patient compliance. This briefly discussed points are relevant with any of the medicine which is basics for the purpose of patient better understanding about their medicines.

Keywords: Awareness, counselling, console, compassion, noncompliance and noninfectious.