A customer awareness initiatibe about medicine safety. We explore issues with its adverse side effects and its impact on environment, the types of toxic medicines and consumer awareness safety guidelines

2. Drug Toxicity
• Drug toxicity is a common and serious health
problem effecting all age groups. Elderly
people are more vulnerable
• It causes symptoms as mental disorientation,
dizziness, blurred vision, memory loss,
fainting, and falls
• To avoid drug toxicity, patients should be
proactive by keeping a careful record of which
drugs they’re taking — including over-the-
counter medications

3. Why Drug Toxicity ?
• Most drugs are eliminated from the body
through the kidneys and liver, but after 40’s
we start accumulating fat and lose muscle
mass, accompanied by a progressive decline in
the ability of our kidneys and liver to process
and clear medications. All of this makes us
more prone to drug toxicity
• There is a tendency for physicians to prescribe
a medication for every symptom, and not
every symptom requires a medication

4. Drug Toxicity - Types
Three classes of medications that account for
almost half of all emergency-room visits for
adverse drug reactions
1.anticoagulants (warfarin, aspirin, clopidogrel)
2.antidiabetic agents (insulin, metformin, glyburide,
glipizide, chlorpropamide)
3.narrow therapeutic agents (digoxin, phenytoin,
lithium, theophylline, valproic acid)
Others are – Barbiturates, Flurazepam, Meprobamate ,
Pentazocine, Trimethobenzamide

5. EcoToxicity
• Environmental exposure of medicines results in
more antibacterial resistance that has been
observed in waters and soils posing a serious
threat to human and animal health
• Antibacterials have been shown to affect soil
microbes, which have an important role in
breaking down pesticides.
• Steroids from contraceptives are strongly
suspected to affect the fertility and development
of fish, reptiles and aquatic invertebrates

6. What you can do?
• Do not self medicate, whatever may be your
condition. Consulting a doctor is easy
• Read the safety inserts that come with the
medication. Don’t go be prescription alone
• Remember every symptom does not need a
medication. Don’t pop the pill at the drop of a
hat
• Explore
alternative medicines like Homeopathy, it
offers a gentler and holistic way of treatment

7. What you can do?
• Do not self medicate, whatever may be your
condition. Consulting a doctor is easy
• Read the safety inserts that come with the
medication. Don’t go be prescription alone
• Remember every symptom does not need a
medication. Don’t pop the pill at the drop of a
hat
• Explore
alternative medicines like Homeopathy, it
offers a gentler and holistic way of treatment