26/11/2025
✔ Importance of Buying Branded & Evidence-Based Medicines
🛑 All tablets are NOT safe. Fake & adulterated medicines can cause:
• Organ damage (kidney, liver, stomach)
• Dangerous allergic reactions
• Treatment failure
• Antibiotic resistance
• Even sudden death in severe cases
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🟦 How to Protect Yourself
✅ 1. Buy only from licensed, reputed pharmacies
• Hospital pharmacy or well-known medical stores
• Ensure proper bill, batch number and expiry date
• Medicines should NOT be loose / unlabelled
✅ 2. Use only prescribed, evidence-based medicines
• Follow what your doctor writes
• Avoid “special kits”, “pain packs”, “fever combos”, “energy tablets”
• Never use drugs suggested by friends, neighbours or social media
✅ 3. Choose branded medicines from known companies
• Tested for safety and quality
• Manufacturing is traceable and accountable
• Lower chance of adulteration
• Your doctor can verify authenticity
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🟧 Why generic-looking tablets from unknown sources are risky
• Many contain hidden steroids, high-dose painkillers or sedatives
• Can silently damage kidney, liver and stomach
• Long-term misuse causes serious complications
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🟩 Simple Rules for Safe Medicine Use
• Read name, dose, batch number and expiry
• Do NOT mix medicines from different people
• Do NOT buy medicines from WhatsApp / online groups without prescription
• Store medicines properly (cool, dry place)
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🟦 Remember:
Your health is precious.
Buy safe. Take safe. Stay safe.
Branded, evidence-based medicines = safer outcomes.
