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Preparations - analogues and preparations - synonyms.

Leaving on vacation or on a business trip, usually prudent people stock up on medications that they take regularly or from time to time. But for all occasions you cannot stock up on a medicine, and the disease can suddenly take hold. What to do in a situation when the drug you need has run out, and the pharmacy offers you a preparation with a different name? Or are you abroad, where medicines have unfamiliar names, and there is no way to explain to the pharmacist what exactly you need?

There is a way out, and it is informatively laid down in the instructions for the medicinal product. The main thing is that you have such an instruction at the right time.

What you need to pay attention to the pharmacist:

On the line "International nonproprietary name", the name of the active substance that has a therapeutic effect is written here. There are preparations – synonyms that have a different name from your drug, but the active substance will be the same as the one written in your instructions on this line. But, along with this, there are preparations – analogs that can have a similar treatment effect (not always effective), and this line will contain the name of a completely different main substance that is part of the drug.

The same information is contained in the line of the instruction "Active ingredient". It is on its name that pharmacists pay attention when they choose not an analogous, but the same drug, but with a different production name.

On the line "ATC CODE" (Latin abbreviation for Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical).

ATC (OR ATC) is a code that allows you to identify to which group of drugs, according to the nature of the therapeutic effect, this drug belongs. And, since each drug usually corresponds to one code, the pharmacist will use it to determine which drug is a synonym you need to replace your drug (for example, for a preparation manufactured in another country and having its own specific name).

Always take medicines on the road in a production box and with instructions. As a last resort, attach the instructions with an elastic band to the container, to the tube or to the medicine bottle.