Chinedum Babalola Quotes

There are a lot of opportunities for women; the world is focusing on women. So, by now, I do not expect any woman or young girl to complain of not being given an opportunity because there are a lot of opportunities out there for all young girls and women in the world as we speak; all we need to do is to find opportunities and grab them.

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.

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

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.

The first study was on proguanil, a prophylactic antimalarial in healthy and sickle cell individuals. The study found that in persons with sickle cell, about one per cent of them breakdown the drug slowly while it was five per cent in healthy persons. This shows that there is genetic difference between the two groups of people.

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.

One thing that is important to note is that drugs are poisons; there is no drug that really does not have its side effect. That is why the drug regulatory body based on pharmacovigilant sometimes recall some drugs from the market if high levels of adverse drug reactions are reported.

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.

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.