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Hi friends, I am Sandip Herma, a hospital pharmacist. I want a healthy journey with my readers. Sometimes you have to sharpen me and sometimes I'll polish you all guys.

Here OTP means one time password to open some secrets and thoughts regarding health. This OTP is extreme necessary for us and that's why we are here to decode our OTPs. We are here to just enjoy the medicinal and healthcare facts rather than bombarding the bla.. bla.. bla.. of information. I hope you'll enjoy the journey and as I mentioned it's not my journey it's our journey. Whatever I write on this blog is the experience of my side but I don't want to keep it my blog. I wish all the readers who are landing here put their thoughts on my blog posts in the comment box or personally on my social media platforms. I also want to learn from you all readers.

Journey can't be perfect by just alone, it's us. So please edit my ideas by providing your valuable suggestions on my Med Thoughts. Hope this blog will add some value to your life as well as mine.

First some random medicinal and healthcare thoughts hit my mind but at the same time I was wondering about Indian healthcare system from the pharmacist's point of view. As a pharmacist I want to explore my experience with the world to nullify the distance between a common man and a health care professionals like doctor, nurse, pharmacist or whoever. If I can help it a little bit by this blog, It would be my pleasure. So let's start the journry.

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The horror show with antibiotic resistance

Nowadays antibiotics are the crucial medicines among all the drugs. All are oversmart enough to consume Azithromycin when sore throat or AmoxyClav when wound with pus or Clindamycin ointment for acne. But they don't know what these mighty molecules are going to be done with the future. All the infections may not require higher antibiotics. Sometimes infection may be due to virus. Here antibiotics are useless or I would say harmful. Antibiotic resistance will be a new disaster before global warming if we don't care. Can you imagine the scenario when your children will be suffering from fever and the medications will not be working for them? Can you imagine the situation of ICUs where all the heroic antibiotics may lose their ability? Can you imagine the era when a surgery will be near to impossible? Yes, we are entering into the era of superbugs. Superbugs will be the new challenge of mankind to survive. As Charles Darvin said everybody has right to survive and thes...

Is traditional pharmacy still superior than online pharmacy?

The most important luxury developed by human in 21st century is home delivery of anything. A man has evolved a lot but at the same time he is going into the idle state of lifestyle. Though it's a good thing actually to make the life easier, it can't be true for all of the products we use. Especially the things which deals with human life can't be ignored easily. It is the coolesst thing nowadays to order online. In metro and mega cities the culture is developed already to the food dishes and now it's entering into the small towns too. It's not a hazardous thing to stop someone using online delivery services. But when it's a matter of medicine, It surely needs some attention. Over the years, the way people purchase medicines has evolved significantly. The advent of technology has given birth to the concept of online pharmacies, which has revolutionized the traditional pharmacy industry. Online pharmacies, also known as e-pharmacies, allow customers to order med...

Are Diabetes and Hypertension overrated?

A man aged 45 was taken to the hospital. The reason was just fall down due to vertigo. It wasn't his first time. Seldom such events were found in the history. The reason could be any serious thing but actually it was pretty simple. He was on antidiabetic medicines for last 6 months. The medicine was started just after two readings of fingertip sugar within 3 days on different time frame after and before lunch. Was it enough data to diagnose a giant one? Actually the diabetic readings were just temporary. Medications worked wrong for him and hypoglycemic shock was the reason of his fainting. Just some sugar cubes or a chocolate could be the treatment of that time for the conscious patient otherwise you just had to drip in plain dextrose infusion. World is suffering from non communicable diseases (NCD) widely. Lifestyle is the key substance behind this ' NCDemic '. Cancer, hyper or hypothyrodism, obesity, hypertension, diabetes etc are the well-known players of this team. Bu...

How can we fight against antibiotic resistance?

So finally health ministry of India took interest to initiate the fight against antibiotic resistance. Colistin(also known as polymyxin E) has been banned in food producing animals, poultry and aqua farming just before a week. This antibiotic was used so much wildly as prophylaxis for growth promoter in poultry. Colistin was directly affecting the meat consumers and that's why its resistance in human was spreading fastly. So three claps for ministry to show some intent. But it's not the fight of ministry alone. It's us who can make the large impact on the future of antibiotics. We are aware about the horror side of antibiotic resistance but by some small acts or some large facts we can solve it slowly slowly. Here are some recipes to initiate the fire. 1. Hand washing You may be tired of listening the yelling of handwash by your parents from the childhood, but believe me they were on right path. Just by washing your hands before you eat anything, you may win 5...

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