OTC Drugs in the Philippines/ Over the Counter Drugs Meaning.

OTC Drugs in the Philippines

There are many otc drugs in the Philippines like other countries. Here are the common otc drugs in the Philippines.

• Medicol
• Paracetamol
• Neozip
• Biogesic
• Bioflu

Those are the common unless to the other which not always used.

The medicol is also a paracetamol but there is a paracetamol that has no other name but paracetamol only.

The neozip was for cold, the biogesic for cold and flu and the bioflu is same with the biogesic.  These medicinal drugs are safe to use even though has no prescription from physicians and can be buy on any stores, pharmacies and more and the reason those these drugs can be buy with the above mentioned stores due to these drugs are over the counter drugs.

Over the Counter Drug

Those are the over the counter drug, you can buy these type of drugs anywhere in the Philippines, even you are in the Mindanao, in Visayas, in Luzon and even to the islands.

Over the Counter Drug Meaning

In the above is the over the counter drug meaning, even the dictionary and elsewhere defined those these over the counter drugs but the drugs those available in other countries is changing due to not all countries with the same drugs for medication purpose. 

The best to say that the OTC drugs are very easy and safe to consume but if use inappropriately may pose danger to the users especially if the specific drug was not fit according to his effect to the user.

For example: when you felt that you have headache it is appropriate to take drug for head ache and is not fit if you take the drug to cure your stomach ache by drug which design for head ache. Remember all drugs has its own purpose whether what ache should cure.

The over the counter drugs are those drugs which other than drugs which prohibited by law to sell like marijuana, cocain, heroin, crystal meth with jargon or street name shabu and other than to those drugs which needed of prescription by physician before you sell to the customer and these types of drugs are controlled by physician as their prescription to their patients.

The over the counter drugs are drugs which have low prices designed due to these types of drugs are the common drugs that used by consumers to cure their flu, cold, cough and more. Now the question is; how about the food supplement can be considered as over the counter drugs?

The food supplement are those with vitamins and minerals that helps the consumer can get more vitamins and minerals other to than in what they have eaten.

Is it over the counter drugs? The food supplement might not call as drug due to the food supplement has no drug effect to the consumers or humans those consumes food supplement.

The purpose of food supplement is to supply more vitamins and minerals which are very crucial in terms of health. Unlike to the dangerous drugs, which has danger effects to the users, and there is also possible that the prescription’s drugs have tendency to become dangerous if not taken carefully or by physicians’ mistakes.