Chinedum Babalola Quotes

All I can say is that I worked hard and as I was working hard, the titles kept coming. I became the first female pharmacy professor in UI when I was the director of General Studies and that was a whole lot of responsibilities because I was in charge of all the students, both regular and distant learning.

Pharmacy is one of the best professions in the world and was rated by Forbes in January 2015 as the best health care profession in the USA.

Also, the rate at which the body is able to breakdown a drug could be genetic modified. So, it is possible based on a person’s genetic makeup to predict those that may react to some drugs. This makes some people’s reaction to particular drugs genetically.

There was also a need for staff development, and for this reason seminars were organised to equip the staff with the appropriate knowledge needed to carry out their duties as expected.

Pharm D means Doctor of Pharmacy. Pharm D programme globally is a curriculum that was developed to make the pharmacy profession more patient-oriented. All along, the pharmacy curriculum in Nigeria was more products-oriented. But there is more to the role of pharmacists than handing over medicines to patients.

Given that the drug–drug interaction occurs at the absorption level, such problem is ruled out when it is given in the injection form. Also, the time of their administration can be separated by between two to three hours to ensure the full benefits of the two drugs are assessed.

They should be able to clack the patient like a doctor to know medicines taken, how they are feeling, any need to change their medicine or dosage regime and so on. This is about individualised medicine. Nobody should die of drug reaction, if things work as they should. Handling over medicines, a pharmacy technician can do that. But information the patient needs about the drug should be provided by the pharmacist.

While in school, I was privileged to be among the best students and even got a Federal Government scholarship.

Also, one of my children also reacted to septrin syrup as a baby. At two years, when he was given Fansidar, an antimalarial drug that also contains Sulphur, he almost died. Because the tongue was red and the inside of the mouth was red, they suspected measles. Unfortunately, nobody suspected a reaction until much later that a consultant paediatrician doctor linked his condition with Stevens – Johnson syndrome. Based on this experience, I started a study on pharmaco-genetics, which entail looking at how gene can help predict a person’s reaction to a particular drug.

Work on quinine suppository has been on for so many years. Preliminary studies on the quinine suppository in rabbits indicated that it had antimalarial properties. However, the bioavailability is low. At the moment, one of our investigators is currently working in the USA on increasing its bioavailability to get an optimum product that will release the necessary level that they need. This will then be followed by more clinical trials.

So, Pharm D will be a more encompassing programme that will make a pharmacist able to handle all of these and pharmacists of this generation. Of course many people will be helped and many ill-healths arising from drug will be averted.

This is called adverse drug reaction and it could occur with the intake of many drugs because no drug is 100 per cent safe. A particular one is the hypersensitivity to sulpha-containing drugs. It also occurs with drugs that contain amino compounds

However, where the body’s ability to breakdown sulpha-containing drugs to safe compounds is slow, it ends up being changed into products that are not safe. This causes the adverse drug reaction that people experience.

Quinine is one of the oldest drugs in the pharmacopeia and during the time, chloroquine was failing, quinine came useful for the treatment of severe malaria until the ACT came on board. Being a drug that can be used to treat cerebral malaria, a life threatening form of malaria, only the quinine suppository would be useful in the rural areas where chances of giving it by intravenous injection may not be possible.

Practice of combining antibiotic with anti-malarials is very common in Nigeria, are there possibilities of such a practice affecting the effectiveness of these drugs? From studies carried out many common antimalarials reduce the effectiveness of common antibiotics, thus promoting resistance in disease-causing germs to these antibiotics.