India’s self-medication habit: You are not just treating a headache, you could be harming your liver
Every week, Dr. Kavya Harika Dendukuri, Lead Hepatologist at Gleneagles Hospitals Lakdikapul Hyderabad, sees patients wheeled into her liver unit with acute hepatitis or drug-induced liver failure. And most of the time, the culprit isn’t what you’d expect. It’s not usually alcohol. It’s a painkiller someone bought at a pharmacy without a prescription. An antibiotic…