Come on lah!

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"I had headache. I took 2 Panadol tablets. After waiting for a while the headache was still there. So I took another 2. Then another 2, then another 2, then another 2...... so in total I took 30 tablets lor..."

"I woke up in the midnight, finding myself having cough. So I opened the fridge to get some cough syrup. But I mistook a bottle of Chlorox (bleach) as my cough syrup and took a cupful of it."

"I had severe gastric pain. My husband was not at home to bring me to see a doctor so I went to the kitchen cabinet to get some gastric medicine. It was very dark as I did not on the lights. I poured some medicine and drank it. Then only I realised it was not gastric medicine but Malathion(insecticide)."

And these similar 'stories' are being uttered again and again by different patients who are admitted to the hospital for overdose or poisoning. The most irritating part is these people always come at unearthly hours of the day.

Come on lah... Who on earth who has a sound mind will take Panadol non-stop like this for unresolved headache? And to put your bottle of Chlorox in your fridge? (the size of a Chlorox bottle is so much bigger than a cough syrup one anyway.) And since when does Malathion smell or taste like gastric medicine? (try go smell Malathion and u'll know it is so not easy to swallow it!!)

Young girls in their teenage. Mothers in their thirties with young kids. Young men still studying in college. These are the people who come to us with overdose, sometimes with real suicidal intention but most of the time just attention seeking - to show some 'colour' to their boyfriend/husband/parents... And most of them are unaware of the lethal effects of what they're taking, and sometimes it's too late to regret. They cause so much suffering to themselves and to the people who love and care for them.

Life is precious... love yourself and live life to its maximum!