{"id":2728,"date":"2021-06-17T08:02:38","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T08:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spicefmhoima.com\/?p=2728"},"modified":"2022-01-19T12:05:20","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T12:05:20","slug":"covid-19-experts-spell-out-dangers-of-taking-medication-without-infection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/2021\/06\/17\/covid-19-experts-spell-out-dangers-of-taking-medication-without-infection\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: Experts Spell Out Dangers Of Taking Medication Without Infection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Leilah Bbaale<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2270 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/cov-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/cov-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/cov.jpg 341w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Medical experts have cautioned Ugandans against taking medication being given to covid-19 patients without testing for the virus.<\/p>\n<p>Dr\u00a0David Nahamya, the secretary to the National Drug Authority Secretary says this has been noted in families where one person has tested positive for covid-19 and the rest of the members sign up for covid-19 medicine without first testing.<\/p>\n<p>He says some people with covid-19 like symptoms such as\u00a0fever, cough and flu have started taking medicine bought across the counter, from various pharmacies.<\/p>\n<p>The commonly used medicine by the population who have not tested for covid-19 include Zinc, Panadol, Vitamin C and Azithromycin.<\/p>\n<p>Dr<strong>.\u00a0<\/strong>Nahamya, says people should go slow on taking covid-19 medication without diagnosis since the effect of taking wrong medication for a wrong illness are enormous including drug resistance.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Rosemary\u00a0Byanyima, the Deputy Director of Mulago Referral Hospital said that the Ministry of Health has released guidelines for the treatment of covid-19 which must be followed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Leilah Bbaale Medical experts have cautioned Ugandans against taking medication being given to covid-19 patients without testing for the virus. Dr\u00a0David Nahamya, the secretary to the National Drug Authority Secretary says this has been noted in families where one person has tested positive for covid-19 and the rest of the members sign up for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2728","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-health","7":"category-national"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3420,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2728\/revisions\/3420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}