Abstract

PRESENT AND FUTURE PROSPECT OF COMBINATION DRUGS THERAPY

MD. Mominur Rahman, Fahadul Islam, Abdur Rahman, Tanjin Ahmed, Mohammad Borhan Uddin, Sharif Mohammad Shaheen* and Sumaya Yasmin Khushi

Abstract

A combination therapy is a therapeutic intervention in which more than one therapy is administered to the patient. Examples of combination therapy include treatment regimens that involves administering several separate pills, each containing a particular drug, or single pills that contain several drugs. The aim of this work is to spread the information about the present situation of combination drug therapy and in future what medicinal development we can do with combination therapy. For this work we have visited several hospital such as Anwar khan modern, Square and Samorita hospital in Bangladesh and collected prescription from several department. We have analyzed the prescribe medicine and saw that most of the doctor using 70% single medicine but for some disease such as hypertension, diabetics, cancer, tuberculosis, antidepression, a little bit in heart disease they used combination drug therapy was 20% and this medicines were more effective than single drug therapy. In future for better medical treatment we have to expand the use of combination drug therapy. In some disease such as ear related disorder, anti-fungal, heart disease there is a little bit using of combination therapy whereas this therapy is more effective than single drug therapy. So combination drug therapy is very essential.

Keywords: Combination therapy, prescription, hospital, hypertension, cancer.