Why do commercials for medications always say “Don’t take if your allergic to this medication” How would you know if you’re allergic to something if you haven’t taken it or somehow encountered it previously? That always confused me ever since I was a kid.
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Your prescribing doctor would. Only a few countries allow Rx medication advertising (US being the most liberal one there), it’s specifically restricted everywhere else because an average patient without medical education does not have sufficient knowledge to determine whether the drug is even relevant for them, let alone whether they can take it to treat something, and certainly not whether it is safe for them. Prescribing doctors can link your conditions, or your other allergies to the ingredients in the medication and reasonably asses whether there are risks like allergies.
It sounds like a CMA just in case someone uses the medication, has an allergic reaction, and then continues to use the medication with plans of suing the company for their subsequent health complications. If someone tried to sue the company, the company could just refer them to the ad and say, “look, we told them not to take the medication if they were allergic.”
In a world where people can and do sue for anything and everything they need to cover their asses in case some moron who is allergic takes it knowingly or, God forbid, unknowingly.
It’s like a get out of jail free card in Monopoly.
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