centuries ago all drugs were written inlatin but nowadays exclusively future directions for exploit has hindered the peculiarity the prescription is written inenglish but the directions for use are written in lighting so i’m going to take you through someof the drug abbreviations that are there so that you can just familiarize yourself withthem and this can help you learn how to read a prescription readily first we’ll talk about when totake the dose and when the prescription is written pm it signifies evening am makes morning c meansbefore males and pc entails after meals hs entails at bedtime and prn intends when needed this mainlyapplies to inhalers and stat represents like you’re supposed to be given one quantity and you take itimmediately when it comes to how to make the dope we have od or or qd which basically entails everyday once a day and bd or offer conveys twice daily tid of tds entails thrice daily that’s threetimes a day after every eight hours you make the remedy and qid planneds four times a day that’safter every six hours you get to take the narcotic nerve when a prescription is written gut itapplies to stops maybe seeing sags or ear droops and you might get something like that bdthis represents a remove should be taken twice a period when it comes to the root of administration thisis also included in the prescription when it’s id it’s intradermal and should be given intradermallyim entails it should be given intramuscularly ing time stands for injection propose it shouldbe given as an insertion iv is intravenous it is intrathecal which is an injection tothe spinal cord ip is intraperitoneal which is injection into the abdominal cavity and ac issubcutaneous these are some of the seeds that you can find in a drug when it comes to theperiod of drug use this is what determines the the figure or the part medication that can begiven this is usually calculated in terms of periods weeks or months in a year for example let’s saythis you know there are always 7 days in a few weeks so how it’s written is that 1 over 7in a drug means 1 day 2 over 7 planneds 2 days i hope you understandthat there are also 52 weeks in a year so when we say 1 over 52 it means thatthe medication should be given for one week when we say 6 over 52 it means thatthe prescription should be given for 7 weeks when it is necessary to months we all know that ayahhas 12 months so when a drug is written one over it means that the prescriptionis a supply for one month another thing you need to note that is a prescriptioncan be written in weeks dates or months let’s say you can say not you can say 1over 12 is equals to 30 over 7 is equals to 4 over 52 that is basically a drugsupply for one month i hope that is clear so let’s try an activity you can try write aprescription for a drug let’s call the drug drug x to be given once daily for eight weeks you can try write that down beforei actually show you how it’s done likewise try and interpret this prescriptionthat i’m going to write down okay this prescription meant that remedy x shouldbe taken 3 times per day for three days and this should be done after dinners the onlyway you can learn how to read and interpret a prescription is mainly throughpractice and training itself yourself with these abbreviations since theyare of latin origin and if you speak latin even better for you you can go deep and tryand understand the abbreviations themselves you
