AboutDr. Ravindra Bhaskar Ghooi Expertise I can provide information on drugs and medicines, their actions, uses, interactions and adverse effects. To avoid confusion, generic names of
medicines may please be provided. I am a pharmacologist, having worked
on animal and human pharmacology, and presently I am the Dean of Bilcare Research Academy, where we teach courses on clinical research. We dont work on saturdays and sundays, hence questions reachng me on these days will be replied on Monday, please bear with me.
Question here in Venezuela there is 1967 law that says : " in the first aid kit is forbidden to have pills, or tablets" I consulted a physician and he advised me that Atamel (acetaminofen) is a tablet that almost never makes an allergic reaction in any person, but, I ask my self: if in my workplace someone takes pill of this and have an allergic reaction what is more valuable, what the law says or what the phisician says. The problem is in my stores (retail) the workers sometimes ask for a pill to calm a headache and it would be ridiculous to send the worker to a hospital in this case.
Please give me your opinion.
Answer Hi Auripol,
I do not understand why the law makes such a sill statement. Let me give you an examle, if a colleague starts having sweating, nausea and chest pain, what should be done. The first thing is to give him or her a tablet of aspirn dissolved in water, next make the person lie down and give oxygen if possible. Tablets must be kept in the first aid box, I for one would obey the dictate of my science rather than the law. If I am caught they may ask me to pay a fine, otherwise I can save a life. Life is more important than law. Your example of a headache is also very correct. I think doctors dont want people to treat themselves, since the doctors will lose some amount of business if people took their own decision, so they influence the governemnt to pass such stupid laws.
Ravi Ghooi
