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
Even though there is evidence of certain self-medication behaviors in animals, so far it has never been known that animals treat their wounds with healing plants.
From Science Daily • May 2, 2024
In their paper, the researchers suggest Rakus’s behavior might be “a form of self-medication that reduces pain, prevents inflammation, and accelerates wound healing.”
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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