Drug Abuse & Self-Medication - Know the Risks

[00:00:02]I'm an health educator in FMC.

[00:00:10]>> [music] >> One, if you don't you take especially antibiotics, it will kill your immune system.

[00:00:17]>> [music] >> Two, it will cause liver problem. It will cause kidney problem because what is now only you they give yourself self-medication. IF YOU WATCH, LIVER PROBLEM and kidney problem What do they cause? Are you yourself You are the one that say What do make these people they get a liver problem and kidney problem? Now big man disease, oh.

[00:00:35]SO NOW THE DRUGS SO WE THEY TAKE so you know they be like say you know they come tell doctor say you they sick. [music] You know come hospital make they give you the right drugs. Only you they do self-medication.

[00:00:45]Then another thing I want BEG UNA FOR.

[00:00:47]ANOTHER thing when they cause effect, TOO. UNA KNOW ALL THOSE PEOPLE WHEN THEY SELL LEAVES WHEN THEY SELL HERBS for road. Ah, we go just GO THERE GATHER.

[00:00:55]WITHOUT YOU COMING TO hospital to check say whether what you they do you so now like this. Una go just branch. Una go just go there buy the leaf. They say this one now sharp, now this one and this one they good for this one. When you take this one, ah, your sperm go boost. When you take this one, you don't get the leg before three days. Man no be God, oh. God now God. So make we reduce all those self-medication and make we no they abuse them. Then two, if medicine work for your second, say your neighbor, he go clinic, they they come give am medicine for your mama when it no work.

[00:01:27]Then you your pikin they hot, then you go ask mama say I beg that medicine when they give you that TIME FOR CLINIC WHEN it work for your pikin, I beg give me my pikin body they hot.

[00:01:36]Forget say the pikin blood group and your pikin blood group might not be the same thing. So please, WE SHOULD STOP SELF-MEDICATION AND I WILL ADVISE US as parents. I BEG MAKE WE TRY CARRY OUR CHILDREN FOR COME KNOW THEIR VARIOUS BLOOD GROUP AND THEIR GENOTYPE so that we go know the right treatment to they give them.

[00:01:54]Papa fit be O positive.

[00:01:56]>> [laughter] >> Mama fit be A negative. IT NO MEAN SAY THAT DIFFERENT.

[00:02:00]THAT'S WHY I WORK for papa not be she work for bikini. So now we try this FMC for proper checkup and proper medication. You know they hear me so that what we have to educate ourselves and tell this morning.

[00:02:13]My name is called Oparinde. So now we going to talk about topic we talk about drug abuse and self medication.

[00:02:23]So what do they call drug abuse? Drug abuse by drug you say you they take excessively. One when you say they not prescribe give you. You understand? You just get to take to do it to make you calm or to make you sleep. That now what they call drug abuse. Then self medication. Self medication and medication you say you they take when you say one you not go to hospital you not do diagnosis. You understand? Maybe you they get headache only you go prescribe paracetamol for yourself. Number one you not know what it cause the headache because you say make I take paracetamol whether I go calm down to know. You understand? That one they call what self medication. Now make we educate ourselves for this FMC continue to call educate you now. Say self medication and drug abuse now bad practice you say we they do for ourselves. You understand? Then this self medication of a thing now what you say don't get our day to day life when you say we they grow as people community and [music] nation as a whole. You don't understand?

[00:03:19]So we want tell you now say one when you go sick >> [laughter] >> or YOU THEY FEEL WHAT KIND thing for your body or maybe now boil come out for your body. Instead of you to go and prescribe drug for yourself or maybe your neighbor now prescribe drug for you. I beg make you come hospital or make you go run test.

[00:03:36]When they run the test they will know the particular thing when you cause the headache number one. The particular thing when you cause that boil when you come out for your body or the particular thing when you cause that thing when you be say you they feel. You understand? So that one you say you not self medicate.

[00:03:50]You go hospital you meet doctor professional to prescribe drug for you. because to the the pain my head my head that two of them take so you say go reach for me I think I take You understand?

[00:04:04]You don't I do that because normally two you supposed you supposed to not the three You understand? So when they tell you say make you take them uh money uh two for money two for afternoon two for evening I beg no take them fast like that some now they calculate with two hours I beg okay since I calculate okay I don't take I don't take two in two hours my head is never come down you go another two I do this fast again when you say around five my auntie doubt me some person they get small house for their body only they get boil for their body only they don't feel for themself I beg buy apple cross or go buy uh apple cinnamon make you take You don't know what it cause them oh no you don't the thing that is inside your body when you cause them when they say you get your typhoid fever so be you know that one so if you go to go to take you are the thing you supposed for for infection when you get you take the one for cough and cold you know go treat that thing that problem go still remain now make you tell me make you come hospital doctor now they say so make you now come hospital say five two doctor make doctor feel treat for them