please be careful – a lot of young people are being prescribed anti-depressants nowadays and these can have adverse effects if you take them with other drugs or even the wrong kind of food. Other pharmaceutical drugs can even cause other serious medical problems if taken by people for whom they have not been prescribed.
next time you do this, before you take anything look at the whole packet and put the name of the drug into Google. If there is more than one name try all of them, as many prescription drugs have a commercial name for an individual maker and a generic name (which is based on the chemicals used to make the drug).
You will usually end up being able to find a number of sites with info about the drug – which will show (along with a description of the tablets) the following
Indications – what the drug is prescribed for
Recommended dose
Contra-Indications – when a patient should not take the drug
Side-Effects – medical problems which could be caused by taking the drug
These sites are intended for medical professionals so some of this info will be in medical jargon. You can look this up as well and its your decision in the end whether to take this drug – but if you don’t understand all of it its probably best not to take the risk!
Whatever happens check the substance first before you take it. Otherwise there may not be a next time…
BTW what is gatorade? We don’t get it here in England…
