WORLD PHARMACIST DAY 2016 - I CARE FOR YOU

WORLD PHARMACY DAY 2016 - CARING FOR YOU 

World over, it's another year to commemorate and celebrate the relentless service of pharmacists in the health care sector, this year is themed "caring for you". 


Alot of people out there confuse or misinterprete their services especially in developing nations like Africa and Nigeria is not an exception to this. Many miscontrue the services of a pharmacist as luxury. Would you really blame these set of people?  The answer is a  resounding NO. There is little/insignificant level of awareness to the general public about the distinct roles and functions of a pharmacist. 


WHO IS A PHARMACIST? 

According to Wikipedia; pharmacists, also known as chemists, druggists, are health care professionals who practice in pharmacy, the field of health sciences focusing on safe and effective medication. He is adequately knowledgeable about biochemical mechanisms and actions of drugs - usage, therapeutic roles, side effects and potential drug interactions. 


Recent studies has revealed that over 50% of Nigerians engage in self medication, it is therefore imperative to summarize the distinct roles of a pharmacist. 

Pharmacists perform vital roles in the health care system through the medicine and information they provide. Some of these roles/functions include:

1. Provides expertise on drug composition (physical, biological and chemical properties). 

2. The manufacture and usage of drugs. 

3. Achieve positive outcomes from the use of medications to improve a patient's quality of life with minimum risk. 

4. Pharmacists cure diseases. 

5. Eliminate/reduce symptoms. 

6. Arrest or slow down a disease process. 

7. Prevent disease, diagnose disease. 

8. Alter physiological process for desirable result in the patients health. 

9. Dispenses medications by compounding, packaging and pharmaceuticals. 


From the above distinct roles, it is apparent that not everyone can prescribe medications. The next time you have that headache, fever and other symptoms don't just engage in self-medication. Speak to your pharmacist because they care for you. 


N. B- A chemist by Nigerian context(those who run patent medicine stores) is not in anyway a pharmacist, they've sent many to the grave beyond with their wrong prescriptions. Don't fall victim. 


In subsequent post, I'll be discussing the adverse effect of self-medication and the dangers of drug/substance abuse. Tramadol, codeine, rephnol, weed(marijuana) Etc. Watch out! Have a beautiful Sunday. 

Oluwatimilehin Oke Email: healthertainment@gmail.com Whatsapp: +234-703-798-6229 BB PIN: 563D9C56 BB CHANNEL: C001C7A18 Twitter & Instagram: @timi0301

Revealed! WHO Confirms Diabetes Now Completely Reversible (SEE HOW)

Stop diabetics

So many death caused by Diabetes has been revealed to be due to ignorance or lack of knowledge on it. Diabetes can be traced back to rapid increase in overweight, obesity and physical inactivity. Total deaths from diabetes are projected to rise by more than 50% in the next 10 years. Most notably, they are projected to increase by over 80% in upper- middle income countries. Here are some facts by WHO (World Health Organization) revealing that Diabetes is completely reversible:

1. T1D [ Type1 Diabetes] is characterized by a lack of insulin production.

2. T2D [ Type2 Diabetes] results from the body’s ineffective use of insulin. T2D is much more common than T1D, and accounts for around 90% of all Diabetes worldwide.

3. Reports of T2D in children- previously rare- have increased worldwide. In some countries, it accounts for almost half of newly diagnosed cases in children and adolescents.

4. A third type of diabetes is gestational diabetes. This type is characterised by hyperglycemia, or rapid blood sugar, which is first recognized during pregnancy.

5. 80% of diabetes deaths are now occurring in low- and middle- income countries.   The full impact is much larger, because although people may live for years with diabetes, their cause of death is often recorded as heart diseases or kidney failure.

6. Lack of awareness about diabetes, combined with insufficient access to health services, can lead to complications such as blindness, amputation and kidney failure.

7. Diabetes can be prevented. Thirty minutes of moderate intensity physical activity on most days, a healthy diet and nutritional supplementation can drastically reduce the risk of developing T2D.

8. Diabetes has a devastating effect on virtually every system in the body, which sets the stage for a variety of diabetic complications. But, as I will explain, this devastation is largely preventable.Diabetes is a nutritional wasting disease. The elevated blood sugar levels that characterize diabetes cause excessive urination. In fact, diabetes mellitus is taken from two Greek words meaning “to pass through” and “Sugar” referring to excessive glucose-laden urination.

9. High blood sugar levels, which are caused by either lack of insulin or insulin resistance (type 1 or type 2 diabetes, respectively), overwhelm the kidneys’ capacity to reabsorb glucose as well as all water-soluble nutrients. Elevated blood sugar levels essentially act like an osmotic diuretic, washing out virtually everything.

10. Every time blood sugar rises and urination increases, patients with diabetes lose water, magnesium, zinc, B12, B6, folic acid, and many other nutrients. Although water is replaced by drinking, nothing is done to replenish the water-soluble nutrients that are also swept out.

Diabetes Is Completely Reversible.  

Replacing lost vitamins and minerals is critical. As a result of these continual nutritional losses, diabetes is the number one cause of blindness, amputation, and kidney failure, and it dramatically increases the risk of both heart attack and stroke.

I believe that if you were to give a healthy person an osmotic diuretic every day without replacing nutrients, they would develop these (and other) diabetic complications.

All of the components in our natural solution help to replace lost nutrients as a result of excessive urination. No wonder this natural solution is working wonders.

Oluwatimilehin Oke Email: healthertainment@gmail.com Whatsapp: +234-703-798-6229 BB PIN: 563D9C56 BB CHANNEL: C001C7A18 Twitter & Instagram: @timi0301