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Written by : Pharm. Peter Gbuchie. For a layman, A  suspension  is a liquid with small pieces of  drug . The  drug  is not complete dissolved in the solution. Sometimes people get carried away by the name or the price of the drug,instead of focusing on how best the drug will be administered to achieve its therapeutic effect. When you buy any drug suspension, e.g. popular antimalarial suspensions like Lonart suspension in the pharmacy, it is important to ask your pharmacist how best to use it to benefit from the product and get value for your money. Buying a good drug and administering it wrongly can be similar to buying a fake product, if the suspension comes in a powdered form, in this case you will need to reconstitute it with purified water using the right volume of water, the product should have a mark on it where the water should be added up to, you need to add the water in parts and shake vigorously and then rinse the bottle sides to get to the required marked volume. After

Written by Pharm. Peter Gbuchie Find The Missing Millions... The world celebrates World Hepatitis Day on the 28th of July every year, this year 2020 it was celebrated with the theme find the missing millions. Hepatitis is simply the inflammation of the liver. If you wrote an Examination, you are graded with A,B, C,D or E. This makes you remember the five types of Hepatitis. Very easy right. The liver is a very vital organ of the body, it helps to take away the "yama yama" from your body. So when next you are passing on the road and you hear that herbal drug seller saying: "buy this body cleanser, e dey comot all the dirty for your body", just sing for him " egugu be kiaful,na express you dey go", it does not make sense taking those preparations which even add to the yama in your system, giving much work to our lovely liver. The Liver also breakdowns the carbohydrates,proteins and fats. It helps to excrete waste products from the body. For the Hepa