self-medication
Americannoun
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This includes reducing infections through better water, sanitation and hygiene, improving vaccine uptake, strengthening hospital infection control policies, educating physicians and deterring self-medication by patients.
From BBC • Dec. 4, 2024
While sick and avoidance behavior can be regularly observed in non-human animals, self-medication in the form of ingestion of specific plant parts is widespread in animals but exhibited at low frequencies.
From Science Daily • May 2, 2024
Now that self-medication has been documented among several ape species, researchers theorize that such behaviors might have been part of the repertoire of the last common ancestors of human and apes.
From Science Magazine • May 1, 2024
The demand for self-medication products and tips has led to questionable health-care advice — and some misinformation — proliferating online.
From Washington Post • Dec. 16, 2022
The layman naturally adopted the theory and the motto of his medical advisers; hence in his self-medication and also under advice he consumes such vast quantities of purgative nostrums.
From Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis by Jamison, Alcinous B. (Alcinous Burton)
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