Here, you will read about how to find your medicine with same ingredients in other countries. For that, you can use an online service called Pillintrip. You can use this service without signup or log in. Once you visit the site, you can mention your home country and type the name of your medicine. You can also search medicine by components. After that, you can select the country where you want to find that medicine. Doing so, you can find the similar medicine in the country you are living in.
During the trip, it is very casual to be a victim of illness. And it is not necessary that you find the same medicine which you take in your home country. Using this online service, you can easily find the medicine with the same ingredients in other countries as well.
Find your medicine with same Ingredients in other countries
When you visit the website, you will see three different columns which are as follow:
- Where are you from
- Choose medicine
- Where to find
Firstly, you have to choose the country name. You can click on the dropdown that consists of various countries alphabetically.
The second option is to choose medicine. The dropdown displays more than 40 medicine names. You can choose any medicine that you want to find in other countries. Also, you can choose medicine by components.
The last step is to select the country where you want to find that specific medicine. After selecting the medicine and the country, you can click on Find Pills in order to search the medicine that has the same ingredients to your selected medicine.
While using this online service, I selected my country name as India, chose medicine Bactomet-C. Then, I selected USA to find this medicine in USA. In the image above, you can see how it showed me a result of my selected medicine.
The site lets you know what all ingredients this medicine has which are same to your selected medicine. To read in details, you can click on the pill name and then it shows you the side effects, uses, dosage, and overdose. You can read its components and method of action. It also lets you know in what all countries this medicine is available.
Other critical information such as
- Qualitative and quantitative composition
- Therapeutic indications
- Dosage and method of administration
- Contraindications
- Special warnings and precautions for use
- Interaction with other medicinal products and other forms of interactions
- Fertility, pregnancy, and lactation
- Undesirable effects
- Overdose
- Date of revision of the text
Apart from that, you can take the pill information as prints or download as PDF. You can send the information by email as well.
Although the default language of his online service is set to the English language. But you can choose other languages as well. It has 12 languages including English.
To track medical history, you can read this article.
In brief
I really like this online service. No matter in what country you are visiting, you can find pills with the same ingredients even in other places. Also, you can read its instructions and download as PDF or take prints.