Medicines have many uses in our lives. Medicines play an important role in curing us when we get infected with various diseases. They treat a person by reducing the symptoms of various diseases. Not only this, medicines are also used to control body functions. In such a situation, it would not be wrong to say that medicines are very useful for us. Do you know that these days, in many medical stores, fake medicines are being sold indiscriminately in the name of genuine ones to earn profits. Consuming these fake medicines can worsen your health instead of improving it. In such a situation, you need to be careful about this. In this series, today we are going to tell you about some methods with the help of which you can identify fake medicines sold in medical stores.

While purchasing medicines, you can check their genuineness by looking at the packaging of the medicine. The packaging of counterfeit medicines is of poor quality. Many times it does not even contain clear information about medicines.

Those are the real medicines. Their packaging is proper. There is clear information about medicines on the packaging. Apart from this, there is also a special kind of QR code on it, by scanning which you can know the complete information about the medicine.

The medicine you have purchased from the medical store. You can identify the real one from the fake one by showing it to your doctor. The doctor can easily know about the genuineness of the medicine after looking at it.

You should always buy medicine from a trusted place. It is often seen that counterfeit medicines are sold from illegal and unsafe sources. You should not buy medicines from these places even by mistake.

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