Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Is it Safe to Purchase Medicines online?

Online medicines safe or not, is always a question in mind of every individual while doing purchase online. We purchase many things online, but buying medicines online always is a matter of concern. Medicines along with the their healing effects also has some of the side effects that is what everybody is concerned about, so buying medicines online is always makes a person to think twice. Online purchase of the medicines is very beneficial for the customers, but some people are taking the wrong benefits from it and are selling the fake drugs to the customers. Every coin has two sides and same is the case with the online pharmacies, it also has positive as well as negative impacts. Online purchase of the medication according to me is a safe, only when you buy the medications from the genuine pharmacy.

Online pharmacies came to existence in the year 2000, when the Pfizer started selling its erectile dysfunction drug Viagra through the internet. This helped the Pfizer to reach the large number of customers and multiply its profits. So, the new phase in the pharmaceutical industry was started. Suddenly many of the drug manufacturers started their own websites and the online business of the medicines started booming day-by-day. But, some fake companies took the benefit of this and started selling the inferior quality drugs to the customer. So, the companies were alerted by the Food and Drug Administration that only the approved drugs should be allowed to be sold online. This rule is still not followed by the many online pharmacies, which still are following these fraud practices and creating the bad impression about the online pharmacies in the vision of customers.

Online pharmacies are in general a very good source of medicines in reality because it gives the maximum benefits to the customers. Previously the patient use to get only the prescription of the medication and he use to buy it. But, due to the online pharmacies he could better understand about his illness and then even get the better information about the medications. With the help of the online pharmacies he gets the better information about the medications, which includes the precautions, warning, and side effects. The patient was not aware of all these information previously. But, one thing I would like to stretch on is that buy and take only those medications online that are prescribed by doctor or health care provider, please don’t buy the drugs by your own.

The important benefit of the online pharmacies is that the medications that they sell here are cheaper in cost than the medicines you get at your local vendor. These things attract more customers toward the online pharmacies. But, now there is need that customer should be alerted about the things that must be checked to verify whether it would be safe to purchase the medications from the online pharmacy or not. The first thing the customer should check is that whether the drugs sold by the online pharmacy are FDA approved or not. If the drugs are not approved by the online pharmacy then please don’t purchase such drugs as they may have adverse effects on your health.

Customer should also check whether the online pharmacy whether the online pharmacy is real or just a pharmacy that’s selling the fraud drugs or want to encrypt your credit card information. The best thing to do these is call the pharmacy and ask for some their previous customers details or the references that would prove them as a genuine pharmacy. Also, please don’t buy from any of the pharmacies that are promising for the outstanding or unbelievable results. So, once you clarify all these points and you are satisfied then you could certainly go for it.

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