Prescription Drug (Rx)

A prescription drug (Rx)is a prescription that is prescribed by a doctor who has a prescription and is then purchased from a hospital pharmacy. This medicine usually has a certain toxicity and other potential effects, medication methods and time have special requirements, must be used under the guidance of doctors

The prescription drug is referred to as Rx Medicine, is to ensure the safety of medication, by the National Health Administrative department prescribed or approved by the physician or other prescription rights of medical professionals to write a prescription for sale, and in the physician, pharmacist or other medical professional
Prescription drugs
Prescription drugs
To supervise or direct the use of medicines below. Most of the prescription drugs fall under the following conditions:
1, the listing of new drugs, the activity or side effects of further observation.
2, some drugs that can produce dependence, such as morphine analgesics and some hypnotic diazepam drugs.
3, the drug itself is relatively toxic, such as anticancer drugs.
4, for the treatment of certain diseases required by the special drugs, the brain vascular diseases of the drug, must be diagnosed by the physician prescribed and use under the guidance of the physician. In addition, the prescription drugs only in the professional medical newspapers advertising, not allowed in the mass media advertising.

Adverse ReactionsChina is gradually promoting the "prescription prescription drugs must be prescribed", before the enforcement of this regulation, experts recommend that patients in the pharmacy to buy prescription drugs, should consult the doctor in advance, or to the pharmacy pharmacists to consult the drug, as far as possible to avoid the disaster caused by unauthorized use of drugs. "Small disease into the pharmacy, big illness into the hospital", in daily life, many people adhere to the principle of such treatment. There is a headache, sore throat, too lazy into the hospital line to see the doctor, like the nearest to the pharmacy to buy bags of painkillers, erythromycin, cough syrup and other drugs to deal with. But they may not notice that these drugs are prescription drugs, if not the doctor, pharmacist's instructions to take without permission, it is easy to liver, kidney and other harmful. According to the Chinese drug adverse Reaction Monitoring Center, the adverse reaction of prescription drugs is much higher than over-the-counter drugs. Buy medicine in order to cure, but be cautious, do not buy the danger back home.High RiskChina's ADR Monitoring Center has reported 717 adverse drug reactions in 26 hospitals, the results show: Anti-infective (mainly antibiotic) drug adverse reactions constitute the highest proportion, accounting for 41.28% of the total number of cases of adverse reactions in all 47 drugs, the published "national Non-prescription drug catalogue" Divided, prescription drugs for 42 kinds, accounted for 89.4%, over-the-counter drugs for 5 species, accounting for 10.6%, prescription drug adverse reactions far higher than over-the-counter drugs. These statistical reports are the adverse reactions found in hospital medication and are used under the guidance of medical professionals. It can be envisaged that, without the supervision of a medical professional, the consequences of the use of these drugs by consumers themselves are serious.

Prescription Drug (Rx)