Fake cough syrup available in the market can damage kidney liver keep these 10 things in mind before buying syrup

Cough If it happens, you would also be drinking cough syrup considering it as a panacea. Often without the advice of the doctor, you must have bought the syrup yourself from the market and have told the names of 4-6 syrups as advice to other people, but the important thing is that the syrup you are buying from a chemist in the market Is it real or fake? Have you identified it? If not, then keep in mind that fake cough syrup is also available in the market and it can damage your precious organs, kidney and liver, far from being beneficial in cough.

Let us tell you that recently a fake cough syrup factory has been busted in Palwal, Haryana. State Narcotics Bureau has recovered bottles full of fake cough syrup of Wings Company’s Onrex. Banned codeine phosphate was being mixed in these bottles which is poison for liver and kidney. In such a situation, before buying cough syrup, if you Dr. Neeraj Gupta, Professor, Department of Respiratory, Delhi Safdarjung Hospital And Kailash Gupta, President of All India Chemist and Druggist and Distributors Federation If you follow his advice, you will be in profit.

, Do not buy syrup without prescription- Take any cough syrup only after the prescription of the doctor. Do not buy cough syrup by asking anyone. Dr. prescribes the right medicine only after knowing your other diseases. Many times there are some such diseases in which there are some such cough syrups which are advised not to drink. Such as glaucoma of the eye, many types of allergies, taking such syrup can be harmful for asthma or asthma patients. Although this caution is written on those syrups.

View .QR code- Keep in mind that the QR or unique code is printed on the original medicines. If you are in doubt, you can scan this code with a mobile phone to get information about the manufacturing date, location and entire supply chain of the drug. If this code is not there on the syrup cover or syrup, then it can also be fake. According to the rules, barcode has to be applied on medicines costing more than Rs 100.

, Check the seal and dates of the syrup- Before buying cough syrup from the market, do check its manufacturing dates and expiry date. Many times sellers of fake medicine do not change the description above the syrup, due to which the right or wrong can be easily detected. Along with this, also check the seal of the syrup whether it is fine or not.

, If you do not get relief from cough, then take the syrup to the doctor. If you have bought cough syrup from the market and are not feeling relieved even after drinking it for several days, then you can take it once and show it to your doctor. Seeing the doctor, you can guess whether it is real or fake or can change the syrup in the prescription.

, Be careful if you get too much sleep Usually, after drinking cough syrup, you feel relaxed and sleepy because it contains alcohol, but every time you feel sleepy after drinking the medicine and it is coming more, then it could be something else. Be careful even if you feel dizzy and stop drinking the syrup.

, If you have vomiting-diarrhea or stomach-ache, then stop using- If you have only cough before, but after drinking cough medicine, stomach pain, vomiting or diarrhea have also started, then it can be the effect of fake medicine. Stop using the medicine immediately, it can affect your kidney and liver.

Do not give syrup to children below 6 months. Cough syrup is not given to children below 6 months, but there are drops for them. Salt, medicine or whatever things are mixed in the drops are according to the children, so if you give cough syrup to small children when they cough, then it can be harmful.

, Drink cough syrup for maximum 3 days- Dr. says that cough syrup should be used for a maximum of three days. If the cough is not stopping or there is no relief at all, then the syrup may be fake. Do not drink this syrup again.

, Do not take syrup near expiry date. If the expiry date of any cough syrup is only after 10-15 days, then do not take that syrup. Buy syrup with new manufacturing date.

Change the color of the syrup. If you have already taken the same syrup, which you are buying for the second time, but its color is seen to be changed, then do not buy it. It can be adulterated or fake.

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