Everyday Medicines Also Get More Expensive / Prices of These Pills Multiply

The wave of price increases on over-the-counter drugs has also hit high-use medications such as cold tablets, acetaminophen-codeine, and diphenhydramine syrup.

Ambassador Arjan: The surge in the price of non-prescription drugs has also included commonly used drugs such as cold pills, acetaminophen, codeine, and diphenhydramine syrup.

Perhaps, cold pills can be considered among the simplest and most common medicines consumed by Iranians, which could be easily and easily prepared without going to the doctor and getting a prescription. So that in the distant years, grocers also had a few sheets of cold pills to give if the customer asked for it!

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With the start of the fever of drug price increase in the country, the price of some medicinal items suddenly increased dramatically, some of which are covered by insurances and some are unknown. But, in the meantime, over-the-counter drugs (OTC) have not been spared from price increases. So that simple and ordinary drugs such as diphenhydramine syrup, cold tablets (Adult Cold), acetaminophen, codeine, etc., which are considered routine and widely used drugs in the country and can even be considered in the list of "handy" drugs; There have been many price changes. Now a sheet of cold pills has reached the price of 40 thousand tomans. It means any number of pills for a person who has a common cold and does not want to go to the doctor; It costs 4000 tomans.

With these conditions, it should not be expected that the problem of self-medication in the society will improve, on the contrary, due to the increase in the cost of treatment from the doctor and prescription medicine, vulnerable families will definitely be inclined towards self-medication. Especially since we are in the season of viral diseases.