A single tablet only for the whole day.
By DoctorDidi
@DoctorDidi (7018)
India
January 26, 2012 7:39am CST
No one likes to be ill, and once the inevitable occurs, one does not want to swallow a large number of multi-coloured tablets of all shapes and sizes. Today, lifestyle diseases such as obesity, diabetes, hypertension and heart disease are rampant. Unfortunately, these diseases usually occur in combination. So a person ends up taking tablets several times a day to keep the sugar under control, the blood pressure within limits and the lipids in check and while doing so, he often he misses the dose of a disease due to forgetfulness. If a single tablet with ingredients for controlling different diseases could be developed, of course, the tablet would contain different combination of ingredients in accordance with different combination of diseases and the tablet would be prescribed by the doctor according to the combination of the diseases, it would definitely be a milestone in medical science. Do you agree with me?
5 responses
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
31 Jan 12
I think that a single tablet medication system would be a really good thing. However, I don't think that is something that is really feasible for the medical industry because I would imagine that there would have to be thousands of different medications that would have to be combined and thus, there really wouldn't be a profit margin because of the fact that they'd have to make so many different medications.
@WakeUpKitty (8691)
• Netherlands
26 Jan 12
What is necessary is necessary. If you are (seriously) ill you have to take meds. Many meds have side effects and there are cases you have to take something against that too.
Also there are many meds who make it more difficult to keep vitamines and minerals in your body so you have to add them too.
After years of experiences with hospitals and doctors in my country as abroad I know that most doctors are not interested in your individual case/illness at all.
They do same tests as they always do, are not interested to find out why it's not working for you or what causes it, give the same (amount) of meds, no matter if you have allergies. They don't care about differences and this is the reason so many people are (ab)used, get the wrong meds, for a too short time (so you have to go on to the next antibiotic because the former one doesn't work anymore).
Many meds here are now free, no prescribtion it's the way doctors want it (it seems they are soo busy even if they only work 3 days a week from 8 am till 4 pm).
BTW many diseases belong together, so if you have one, big chance you have or develop the other one as well.
@wealthymouli (710)
• India
26 Jan 12
I think a well experienced, dedicated homeopathy doctor will do this. May be they are doing it already across the globe.
@sweetajlo (175)
• Philippines
26 Jan 12
it would surely be a great achievement in medical science, but still there should always be a bad effects on it since it just develop using different ingredients of certain diseases...still there should be more diseases coming then...as knowledge and technology increased humanities would surely suffer for the effects on it.
