Prepare a clean level work surface to get started
Tools
A plate, bowl, & spoon, or a mortal & pestle & spoon
Holding prescription bottle, orange translucent plastic, white plastic screw cap
Turn the white cap counterclockwise, & place it upside down on clean surface, careful not to drop anything into the cap while it is resting on the surface
Take the bottle and tilt and tap it gently until a single pill or capsule deposited on plate or into motar for crusting into dust without contamination
Crush the tablet into dust by using the pestle to apply downward circular grinding pressure, or use the back of the spoon to carefully align over the pill, then progressively clamp down on the pill with the spoon so its trapped between the spoon and plate, then increasingly apply pressure until the pill fractures & crushes, repeatedly doing this until its a finer powder dust able to mix with water
To this dust a small amount of water added and mixed to form a paste or slurry
With the slurry or paste of medication dust in water, apply this to the inner side of your forearm skin
Now let this mixture dry for about 10 minutes, spreading it into a thin layer with spoon to help it evaporate
Not wait at least 24 hours, keeping an eye on it, taking notice for any rash or redness or burning or pain, any of which would indicated you should not take that medication internally or orally
If you notice any symptoms on your skin, call your doctor and or the pharmacy & tell them about this test
Tell them how you performed the test, procedure, methods, materials, the skin reactions noted
Ethical & Moral to Share this Medication ADR Self Test Information
How to test a new medication you have never taken before to prevent a dangerous, harmful or possibly fatal ADR or adverse reaction, this procedure should have been taught to everyone in school, since nearly everyone will take an OTC medication like Tylenol (Acetaminophen) or Ibuprofen ((RS)-2-(4-(2-methylpropyl)phenyl)propanoic acid) or a new prescription like Metformin (1,1-dimethylbiguanide)
Designing this Guide
In this guide I made every attempt to be verbose enough that a lay person without formal training can take a pill of medication, crush it into dust mixing water into the dust, then spreading resulting paste or slurry onto the inner skin of their forearm to test for a possible ADR before every taking a new medication for the first time not knowing if they are allergic to the medication or any of the medications ingredients.
If Medication a Liquid
If the medication comes in an injection, auto injector, pen, or similar, you can contact the manufacture or your doctor or pharmacy to ask for a free sample to test. In this example you would need a few milliliters or 1/4 teaspoon of medication, or a few drops if more potent, or less if very strong, ask for guidance, how can I test for an ADR before taking the full dose for the first time, be inquisitive and text the instructions, or ask for a hand out or email of instructions, become informed, read & re-read until you understand. Many people die when they take a new medication for the first time because they didn't know they were allergic, and had no idea how to test for a possible ADR with the above method.
My Credentials, College Educated Scientist
I have extensive experience in researching, designing, building DIY, experiments to test hypothesis, simultaneously collecting data with any of many sensors, then using analytics statistics on collected data to isolate variable of interest and reduce noise, repeating the experiment many times to verify the results are not an anomaly, to create integrity, all of this design in my heat, in a document like this, before I even get started, a pre-lab, where all the research, mechanism, methods, materials, design of setup, build list, instruction to make it, how to set it up, which sensor & data collection methods, how many data points for statistical significance, which graphs and charts to use, outline for the abstract and paper, all done ahead of time many days if its more complicated, so that I have everything in real time to do all the steps sequentially to run the experiment, including if many days required to build the setup or have special parts made by a service online & shipped to me for final assembly.
At a person level, I have a strong bias belief that data evidence based scientific approach should be used at every level of society to improve everything iteratively continually for all peoples benefit, a fact focused methodology that can be used in any system or machine, with data analytics, to produce quantifiable information used to guide development of an upgrade pathway or how to make anything better or solve any problems, noting that some problems are unsolvable this way because they are based on human personal beliefs, such as illegal war where states have a virtual monopoly on murdering people, even though its illegal for citizens of those same states to murder other citizens for other reasons.
When a doctor prescribes a medication he knows little about, to a patient he knows even less about, for a condition he knows very little about, that same doctor has effectually become a pill pusher for big pharmaceutical companies, who fails to realize that what people eat & drink the basis of their health, along with activity levels, fitness, exercise, weight training, resistive exercise, cardio, aerobics, walking, jogging, hiking, bicycle riding, tennis, fitness classes, kickboxing, racket sports, soccer for all ages intramural, swimming to minimize joint pressure for people with painful joints or arthritis or inflammation. The extensive benefits of regular exercise making you hot and sweating or breathing so hard you can barely speak for at least 150 minutes per week, are beyond the scope of this post, but sitting around all the time toxic known as sitting diseases which combined with unhealthy diet and drink are a virtual recipe to become fatter and sicker with any of many preventable diseases that are amenable with treatment by telling people to making healthier food choices, skip meals, start going to walks daily, & gradually increase their activity levels until they climb out of the hole metabolically increasing their BMR & eventually lowering their body weight by burning body fat, some morbidly obese people could start by drinking far more water with some electrolytes added to some of their water, for longer duration multi-day fasting so their body forces to burn stored body fat for energy, but many unwise uneducated doctors who know nothing or very little about fasting will call this starvation and say it is dangerous.
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