I don't even realise my blog has been left unattended for more than half a year! Time really flies too fast than we can imagine. Too many things to accomplish but too little time. (Poor time management, huh?)
After resting for too long, I'm going to start with a short sharing.
After return home from the clinic, you bring along the medicine that prescribed by the doctor. Of course, with the hopes that every single pills or capsules that you are going to swallow will make you recover the soonest. You just don't want to feel sick anymore.
Just my advice, before putting the medicine into your mouth, please spend a little time to google it. For those who has been with the doctor for very long time, you may give him/her a greater deal of trust. I was once prescribed asthma medicine for my cough.
However, the truth is, polyclinics are running by a group of GPs. Different GP may have different understanding on the medicine that they are going to prescribe on you. And the medicine they are going to prescribe to you is whatever they have in their stock at that moment. They may answered your request, "I don't have this medicine, but I'll prescribe you a similar one, xx" Or they don't have it at all. For throat infection, instead of going for antibiotics, I always rely on taking Difflam but many clinics doesn't has this. Some GPs would rather suggest you to take antibiotics right away.
There are many search engines can support this but the simplest one is by using http://www.wikipedia.org/ and this is what I found when I key in Bromhexine ==> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bromhexine
And for those who are not very good in English, you may use http://www.baidu.com/
Key in the same word : Bromhexine and you can find the info. in split second.
http://baike.baidu.com/link?url=BvXMwMzFdsF2pYWzjllQJlT5hs8VUU8vO9bnvCnB9vZKxNKWZBfrJdTt7jvrLaEDbIA4RFHcwr2UIFSPlYGhN_
Understand what you are taking may save your time and money, perhaps may speed up the recovery.
This is crucial especially you are given antibiotics which you are required to complete the course, and how if the antibiotics given may not target the exact problem that you are facing.
After checking, and once you have doubt on the medicine that is now in your hand, please consult your GP.
P/s: I used Bromhexine as an example as this medicine is commonly prescribe to cure common colds and cough.
