Parents do not send your children to a pharmacy, when it comes to filling prescriptions or to buy over-the-counter medicines. A current work makes the help of the Federal chamber of pharmacists be attentive. Also if the Little ones are happy to take such errands, you know the often necessary background.
Against the messenger service to children and young people a lot: " speaks according to Thomas Benkert, Vice-President of the Federal chamber of pharmacists,;How to advise a pharmacist to an adult patient, if he speaks only with the child? Children are not able to understand, for example taking notes and therefore not aligning”, he says. If the pharmacist has questions about other medications of the patient, to assess, for example, possible interactions, is not able to answer a child probably. Another Argument against the tax on children and young people the risk of Abuse of drugs.
Basically, pharmacist children and adolescents, medication with, and only when, in individual cases, there is nothing. This decision depends, among other things, the age of the child, the medicine and whether it is a First or repeat regulation. The pharmacist was able to advise the patient at a first contact to his medication, this is a fact that for a messenger service to children and young people can speak.
Benkert: "The best advice is always held in a personal conversation in the pharmacy." Anyone who can’t go to his pharmacy, you can ask for a courier service by employees of the pharmacy. In the year 2018, the pharmacies provided about 250,000 messenger services.
BAK/RF
An Overview of all the messages you get on aponet.de current.