{"id":1233,"date":"2012-12-06T13:38:13","date_gmt":"2012-12-06T13:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icaro.med.br\/?p=1233"},"modified":"2025-06-23T22:05:21","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T01:05:21","slug":"do-you-really-always-need-medication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icaro.med.br\/en\/do-you-really-always-need-medication\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you REALLY need medication all the time?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>See if you have any of these (or know someone who does):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1 - Adult with high blood pressure, frequent colds, tonsillitis and hoarseness;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2 - Patient who can't lose weight, is dissatisfied with their skin\/aesthetics and has been to several doctors without success;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3 - Women with \u201clazy bowels\u201d, who only work with laxatives;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4 - An athlete who develops breast lumps, even with a suspicion of local cancer;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5 - Nurses who try to take care of themselves, but suffer from depression\/anxiety and low immunity;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6 - Executive, always very busy, very tired and irritable;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7 - Candidates who experience headaches, dizziness, difficulty concentrating and general low productivity in their studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These are very common cases, aren't they? And tell me if what happens to them most of the time isn't something like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>They first try to ignore the symptoms, hoping that they will get better on their own;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>If they don't go away, they learn to live with them, still hoping they'll get better on their own;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>If it becomes long-lasting or bothersome, self-medication or home remedies of various origins\/recommendations are common;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>When a doctor is consulted, most of the time the patient leaves with one (or more) diagnoses and prescriptions for medication, after a quick consultation (often with a very superficial anamnesis), often without any previous complementary tests.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>However, reflect with me on the cases above:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2705 <strong>Case 1:<\/strong> All the signs\/symptoms reported can be caused (or made much worse) by low daily water intake;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2705 <strong>Case 2:<\/strong> All the signs\/symptoms reported can be caused (or made much worse) by inadequate nutrition;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2705 <strong>Case 3:<\/strong> All the signs\/symptoms reported can be caused (or made much worse) by low fiber intake;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2705 <strong>Case 4:<\/strong> All the signs\/symptoms reported can be caused (or made much worse) by physical exercise practiced inappropriately (for example, in excess, so-called \u201covertraining\u201d);<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2705 <strong>Case 5:<\/strong> All of the signs\/symptoms reported can be caused (or made much worse) by insufficient\/inadequate sleep (as is common in those who work on call);<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2705 <strong>Case 6:<\/strong> All the signs\/symptoms reported can be caused (or made much worse) by chronic excess stress;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2705 <strong>Case 7:<\/strong> All the signs\/symptoms reported can be caused (or made much worse) by inadequate breathing, leading to low cerebral oxygenation;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In other words, for ALL these patients, the prevention and treatment of their disorders necessarily depends on improving their lifestyle habits, i.e. the way they take care of their own health (<a href=\"http:\/\/icaro.med.br\/a-base-de-tudo\/\">http:\/\/icaro.med.br\/a-base-de-tudo\/<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, back to the initial question, for YOU to think about: do you REALLY need medication all the time?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cheers,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Icarus<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veja se voc\u00ea apresenta algum destes (ou conhece algu\u00e9m &#8220;sofrendo&#8221; assim): 1 \u2013 Adulto com press\u00e3o alta, resfriados frequentes, muitas &#8220;amigdalites&#8221; e rouquid\u00e3o; 2 \u2013 Paciente que n\u00e3o consegue perder peso, insatisfeito com sua pele\/est\u00e9tica, j\u00e1 passou por v\u00e1rios m\u00e9dicos, sem sucesso; 3 \u2013 Mulher com &#8220;intestino pregui\u00e7oso&#8221;, que s\u00f3 funciona \u00e0 base de laxantes; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-saude-geral","category-bases-da-saude"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icaro.med.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icaro.med.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icaro.med.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icaro.med.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icaro.med.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1233"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/icaro.med.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24774,"href":"https:\/\/icaro.med.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233\/revisions\/24774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icaro.med.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icaro.med.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icaro.med.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icaro.med.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}