Voorbeelden van self-medicate

• The state passed laws permitting asthmatic students to self-medicate in schools.

• Consumers should avoid aspirin use alone to prevent stroke or cardiovascular diseases, and should never self-medicate without the advice of a doctor.

• Adolescents are subject to depression and often start smoking to self-medicate.

• When a patient is not brought into a stable frame of mind, they eventually resume using drugs as a way to self-medicate their symptoms.

• For example, the resources and tools offered online represent opportunities to self-diagnose, self-medicate, and delay appointments with qualified healthcare professionals.

• An illness or symptoms that are self-limiting, where the patient could reasonably self-medicate for, if appropriate, and could reasonably be expected to identify themselves.

• They also found that males were less likely to use drugs to self-medicate than females.

• Many would self-medicate, seek informal consultation, and keep working.

• Individuals who self-medicate tend to be self-reliant people who have less faith in doctors and have lower expectations about the doctor's ability to help or cure.

• This often leaves soldiers with few options other than to self-medicate with drugs and alcohol.

• These pressures lead to psychological disorders, alienation and distress (p 179), causing people to self-medicate with mood-altering drugs and excessive alcohol consumption (p 180).

• Sufferers of post-traumatic stress disorder have been known to self-medicate, as well as many individuals without this diagnosis who have suffered from (mental) trauma.

• Drosophila melanogaster larvae also "self-medicate" with ethanol to treat parasitism.

• Ruminants appear to learn to self-medicate against gastrointestinal parasites by increasing consumption of plant secondary compounds with antiparasitic actions.

• They may self-medicate themselves during attacks of separation anxiety by focusing on these items.

• Many animals are also known to self-medicate using plants and other materials available to them.

• Patients often self-medicate by naturally gravitating toward a high-sodium diet and by dramatically increasing their water intake.

• While these side effects are usually controllable, it is recommended that patients undertake light therapy under the supervision of an experienced clinician, rather than attempting to self-medicate.

• Although the nature of this association remains unclear, it has been argued that the increased level of smoking in schizophrenia may be due to a desire to self-medicate with nicotine.