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Over use of Drugs and Antibiotics for Common Cold: Survey Study on Young Population

Sunil Kumar , Sunil Kumar1 , Hardeep Singh Manhas2 , Prem Lata3 , Paramveer Singh4 , K. S. Rana5 , Gaurav Singh6

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Journal of Global Medical Education and Research 3(2):p 45-50, JULY-DEC 2020. | DOI:

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Sunil Kumar, Hardeep Singh Manhas, Prem Lata et al./Over use of Drugs and Antibiotics for Common Cold: Survey Study on Young Population/Journal of Global Medical Education and Research. 2020;3(2):45-50.

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Unnecessary rampant usage of antibiotics by people is becoming an alarming issue in India and surrounding Asian countries. Antibiotics are easily available to common population in India. Many people because of lack of awareness about usage of antibiotics, use antibiotics without any proper prescription and even if prescribed for a particular bacterial infection do not complete the prescribed course of antibacterial drug and this is creating a big issue in the medical health sector, as microbes are becoming drug resistant and stop responding to the existing drugs. Common cold is a harmless viral disease of nose and upper respiratory tract and it cures on its own within a week. But to speeding up the recovery, many people who are quite unaware of usage of medicines, start antibiotics even without the prescription of authorized health care official. Situation is alarming in rural areas specially. Drug resistance is creating a huge hindrance in the proper treatment of major diseases. Awareness of usage of antimicrobial medicinal drugs among young population specially from rural areas is very important to deal with the issue of antibiotic resistance. Aim: Aim of the present study was to check the awareness of drug/ antibiotics usage in random youngsters. They were asked to answer a questionnaire regarding the use of drugs and antibiotics for the treatment of common cold. Results: Total 100 students were enrolled for the study. A written consent was taken from all the participants. Students in the age group of 18-30 years were included in the study. It was observed that only 22 % of thestudents were actually aware of antibiotics usage. 20% of the students enrolled had no awareness about antibiotic usage. 56 % of the enrolled students were not sure about their awareness on the antibiotic usage. 2% of the enrolled students did not disclose their information. Conclusion: So it was concluded that there is a huge need of public awareness about antibiotic usage. It was observed that every student prefer different field of medicine when they catch common cold, homeopathy 7 %, Allopathic 26%, Natural Healing 36 %, Home Remedy 25% and Ayurveda 6%. 40% students confirmed treatment for common cold using different remediesspeeding up their recovery. Natural healing was also adopted by most the students followed by Allopathic, Home remedy, Homeopathy, Ayurveda. Key words : Overuse; Drugs; Antibiotics; Common cold.

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