title: [Self medication with drugs in everyday complaints].
abstract: The occurrence of incidents of illness and their surmounting by the medical layman are an integral part of everyday life. Amount and importance of self-medication depend greatly on the actual health disturbance. Self-medication is above all employed against headache and minor ailments. With small restrictions of everyday activities, as was observed for headache, the concerned persons show already little symptom tolerance. About 4 persons out of 10 assume a treatment strategy using drugs.
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000700:Analgesics / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006261:Headache / Q000188:drug therapy; D006801:Humans; D009017:Morbidity; D004366:Nonprescription Drugs / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D012017:Referral and Consultation; D012651:Self Medication / Q000379:methods*; D012737:Sex Factors; D012803:Sick Role
chemical_list: D000700:Analgesics; D004366:Nonprescription Drugs
vernacular_title: Medikamentöse Selbstbehandlung bei Alltagsbeschwerden.