"My wish is to stay lively and healthy all my life", of course, this is our common wish. In our daily life, we would like to be more conscious of our health and try to avoid sickness. The word Self-medication means: to stay up-to-date with health and medical matters; whereby acquiring this knowledge, we use it to manage our health by helping ourselves treat light illnesses or cuts and pain. This means we take responsibility of our own body. To do this OTC drugs becomes a very useful partner. So, why is self-medication becoming necessary, now? To name a few reasons; lifestyle disease is on the increase, faster aging of the Japanese society, and increasing medical cost. To add to that, health care information can be found much more readily than before, and more and more people want to protect their own health by themselves. These socio-environmental changes and rise in health awareness is making the importance of self-medication all the more essential. Because we want to make you call this a "Self-medication Handbook", "Self Medication my friend", we will explain to you the proper use of OTC drugs. We want you to use drugs properly, and please enjoy your daily life.
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