Report the side effects of your medication
As local health professionals observe Med Safety Week, residents are being urged to report side effects and adverse drug reactions (ADR) of medicines.
A side effect is any unintended effect of a particular medicine that is related to the properties of the drug while an adverse drug reaction is a response to a medicine which is harmful, very unpleasant and unintended, and which occurs at doses normally used in man.
Chief of Drugs and Pharmaceutical Services, Gracia Wheatley-Smith reminded residents that even though medicines help, they can cause harm so it’s important people monitor themselves closely when using prescription medicines and report any side or adverse reactions they experience.
Wheatley-Smith said these experiences can be fatal, life-threatening, permanently and significantly disabling. She also said side effects may require hospital visits, prolonged hospitalisation, can cause congenital anomaly and may require intervention to prevent permanent impairment or damage.
She said regulators want to be aware of side effects and adverse drug reactions so they can use this information to help prevent harm to future patients.
According to the Chief of Drugs, reporting side effects and adverse drug reactions help to improve the safety of medicines for all users and in some cases can result in better tailored prescribing advice by doctors.
“By reporting side-effects and adverse drug reactions, patients will be actively participating in identifying emerging safety issues with medicines so that the ministry can take actions when necessary and protect you and others from harm,” Whealtey-Smith said.
The community is urged to report any side effect or ADR to the Chief of Drugs and Pharmaceutical Services via telephone at 284-468-9850 or email at [email protected].
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AND WHAT THATS GOING TO DO , THAT WILL BE AFTER THE FACT , THESE DOCTORS ON COMPUTERS ONLY WITH A LICENSE TO PRESCRIBE MEDICATIONS , WON’T TELL ABOUT THE SIDE EFFECTS , BUT QUICK TO PUT YOU ON ANOTHER ONE WHEN YOU DONE DEVELOP ONE OR MORE SIDE EFFECTS , AND I HAVE BEEN BLOGGING AND SAYING IT FOR YEARS .SOMETIMES IS THROUGH A SECOND OPION TO KNOW THE REAL TRUTH / MAKE SURE YOU READ THE LEAFLET INSIDE TO KNOW WHAT YOU ARE PUTTING IN YOUR BODY / SOME MAY EVEN CAUSE CANCER
who do we report the side effects of the recent vaxes or is that exempt?
Where has this person Wheatley been for the last couple of years whilst government have been coercing the public to take part in a medical trial for a gene altering serum that has a higher mortality rate than the disease it was meant to prevent?
and what about the toxic air we are forced to breathe from the burning dump! No difference… medicine or breathing poison?
The side effects of the vaxx and using the ventilators wrong is death.
It would be better IMO to have an actual database for reporting as opposed to calling or emailing an individual. Are calls recorded? And sending an email to an individual might not even get recorded or dealt with in a timely manner to get logged. Whose idea was it suggest those two options? On a regular day you can’t even get them by phone.
What about those symptoms and conditions developed by BVI Residents after taking the covid 19 vaccines. There is a big debate about it right now in the UK Parliament and confronting the Big Pharma of UK for answers.
The reality is that all medications have some form of side effect and the occurrence and severity depends on the user. Which befuddles they mind why experimental vaccines were forced on many. Just look at the excess deaths in highly vaccinated countries and ask yourself what’s going on?. I know personally of persons who have had severe side effects and even death with zero accountability and zero compensation.
Sad but true.
You guys are a “day late, and a penny short”!
If only you guys inquired during AstraZeneca’s ” crime wave” among us in the territory, you could be believed..
Toooo late, mahn!
Sooo many have died..
My,my,my!