Authors : Madhur Gupta, Arti Kasulkar.
Volume : 16
Issue : 3
Year : 2015
Page No : 603 – 605
Self-medication is basically the practice of taking of drugs or medication without any prescription from the health care providers. A prospective, cross simple random sampling from January found that 90.5% students reported SM in the preceding one year, 83.8% students followed allopathic system of medicine. Cough and cold were the most frequent (84.9%) antipyretics and analgesics (95.6%). It is alarming pace and is important factor for increased resistance to drugs. To eradicate this problem, education of students, public and health professionals