• People who take someone else's medicine may be harmed if they take the wrong dose or take a medicine that is not meant for treating their condition.
• Women who take medicine to try to end a pregnancy are misusing the medicine, and may poison themselves.
• Poisoning accidents can happen when safety warnings are ignored and chemicals are used in the wrong way. For example, there is usually a warning on a bleach container that bleach should not be mixed with any other cleaner.
• If people ignore the warning and use bleach with another household cleaner, they may be poisoned by the gases given off.
• Another example of misuse of a product is when insecticides that are meant to be used on plants or buildings are used to kill insects living on people, in their hair or on their bodies.
• Sometimes people poison themselves by misusing medicines. They may take more than the doctor prescribed because they think, wrongly, that a larger dose will make them better more quickly.
• Taking someone else's medicine is also a kind of misuse.
(Contributed by Dr Sudhir Gupta)
• Women who take medicine to try to end a pregnancy are misusing the medicine, and may poison themselves.
• Poisoning accidents can happen when safety warnings are ignored and chemicals are used in the wrong way. For example, there is usually a warning on a bleach container that bleach should not be mixed with any other cleaner.
• If people ignore the warning and use bleach with another household cleaner, they may be poisoned by the gases given off.
• Another example of misuse of a product is when insecticides that are meant to be used on plants or buildings are used to kill insects living on people, in their hair or on their bodies.
• Sometimes people poison themselves by misusing medicines. They may take more than the doctor prescribed because they think, wrongly, that a larger dose will make them better more quickly.
• Taking someone else's medicine is also a kind of misuse.
(Contributed by Dr Sudhir Gupta)
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