�Borrowing and sharing of prescription medications is a serious medical and public health vexation. A survey of most 7,five hundred women of reproductive age found that this is common practice among more than tierce of this population, according to a report published online in advance of print in Journal of Women's Health, a peer-reviewed journal published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. The paper is available free on-line at http://www.liebertonline.com/doi/pdfplus/10.1089/jwh.2007.0769
A study intentional to trace patterns of prescription medicine borrowing and sharing among various groups of adults revealed that women of reproductive long time (18-44 days) are more likely to report this practice (36.5%) than are former aged women (19.5%). In the overall surveil of more than 25,000 women and workforce, 28.8% of women and 26.5% of men reported ever borrowing or sharing prescription medications.
In a paper entitled "Prescription Medication Borrowing and Sharing among Women of Reproductive Age," Emily Petersen, Sonja Rasmussen, Katherine Daniel, Mahsa Yazdy, and Margaret Honein, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC, Atlanta, Georgia) and Oak Ridge Institute for Science & Education (Oak Ridge, Tennessee), report that allergy medications (43.8%) and pain medications (42.6%) were the types of drugs most normally borrowed or shared by reproductive-aged women.
The authors punctuate some of the risks involved in using some other person's prescription drugs, including unanticipated side of meat effects, complications of wrong use, drug-drug interactions, antibiotic drug resistance, and risk of addiction. Of great importance for reproductive-aged women is the risk of infection of teratogenic effects on a development embryo or fetus if the women were to become pregnant while pickings the medication.
"This study confirms what many health precaution providers suspect," says Susan G. Kornstein, MD, Editor-in-Chief and Executive Director of the Virginia Commonwealth University Institute for Women's Health, in Richmond, VA. "It is clear that patients need to be counseled about the potential risks of sharing and adoption medications, especially if they are women of reproductive age."
Journal of Women's Health is a core multidisciplinary journal consecrate to the diseases and conditions that hold greater risk for or ar more predominant among women, as well as diseases that present differently in women. The Journal covers the modish advances and clinical applications of new diagnostic procedures and curative protocols for the bar and management of women's healthcare issues. Journal of Women's Health is the Official Journal of the American Medical Women's Association (AMWA; http://www.amwa-doc.org/).
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Source: Vicki Cohn
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