There are many individuals who suffer from diseases
like arthritis and tennis elbow. Instead of going to the
doctors, often individuals resort to self medications. This can have drastic
effect on their health. Some of the disadvantages of self medication are
discussed below.
One of the biggest disadvantages of self medication is
that you will end up using the medicine which will not heal the disease. You
are not a practitioner and hence you will not have enough idea on what will
suit you the most. As a result what happens is that many people often aggravate
the disease and they go to the doctor at a much later stage. This is the time
when the disease has become profound and will be causing much harm for the people.
It has been seen that many a time people avoid going to the doctor and start
self medication. The disease which could have been treated and cured easily if
detected in the initial stages do not get detected and hence the people start
suffering from the disease in the future.
The second disadvantage is that often the people
neglect the disease in the initial stages and let it develop into a gigantic
form. Then treating the disease becomes a problem for the doctors. But many
people fail to understand this. The self medications often lead to other health
problems and hence this causes double problems for the medical practitioners
who end up treating such individuals. The money that the people initially saves
by not going to the doctor actually drains out when they have to shell out more
to get themselves treated in the later stages from the same disease.
The third disadvantage is often consuming the wrong
medicines may make the person paralyzed for life. This has happened in many
cases where the patient has resorted to self medication and become paralyzed
for lifetime.