Say no to popping pills

Popping pills without prescription is risky. With our busy and stressful lifestyles and routines, the most convenient thing to make up for not eating on time is popping any vitamin pill we get our hands on. And not just that, for few illnesses, like cough, cold, headache, body pain or fever - it is a very generic scenario where we take up pain-killers, tablets or cough syrups without consulting doctors. It is a very usual habit of people to take up vitamin pills to make up for the nutritional balance in our diet. But, how safe is it? People are used to take multi-vitamin tablets as it is considered very fancy - though they don't realise it can lead to harmful side effects like hypo-vitaminia. It is highly advisable to stick to natural sources of vitamins within diets rather than taking up pills as certain vitamins when on overdose are not good for body. It is just at certain specialized cases that doctors prescribe multi-vitamin tablets with a specific dose to meet the body requirements. Habit of taking tablets for any ailment without prescription is certainly not advisable as it has harmful side-effects at higher dosage or frequent usage. It could lead to problems like ulcers, acidity, psychic dependence, anorexia, hair fall etc. In case of multi-vitamin pills, one should not take them without diagnosing the vitamin deficiency and just in case deficiency is diagnosed by doctor - one shouldn't take more than ten tablets in a month.