Drugs are typically tested on men. Thus, when drugs enter the market and women buy them, drugs can do harm to women’s health. Women, on the contrary to men, more sensitively react on powerful drugs. Therefore, before drugs can be delivered to a drugstore chain, they have to undergo a lot of tests both on men and women.

Unfortunately, this procedure isn’t generally fulfilled, since tests on women are more sophisticated, timely and thus, more expensive.

Since chemical composition of specific women hormones is continuously changed depending on their menstruation rhythm, the effect of drug use can very significantly. So, to test drugs on women, it’s necessary to monitor the influence of drugs on women’s organism during several menstruation cycles, i.e. over several months. At the same time, if to test drugs on men, it’s possible to study the effect of drug use in any time and within a short period.

It has been proved that positive effects of some drugs that help men don’t lead to the same result for women. For instance, compounds dissolving in fats, which are included in a drug composition, more strongly influence men, than women, since women’s organism contains more natural fat. On the contrary, drugs dissolving in water are less efficient for women, than for men.

Use of aspirin to prevent heart attack is more painless for women, than for men, since in men’s stomach aspirin stays longer; as for women’s organism, aspirin leaves stomach very quickly.

When paracetamoll is used to kill a headache, women’s organism sucks in paracetamoll’s active compound quicker, than men’s. As a result, women will recover from headache quicker. Soporifics stay in women’s organism longer, than in men’s.

Alcohol differently influence man’s and woman’s organism. In woman’s organism, alcohol is quicker sucked in in blood and stronger “hit the brains”. This situation is reflected in a proverb saying that a man can drink a glass of alcohol and still remain OK, while even a small glass of the same drink might knock off a woman.

Already 1,993 directives stipulating the necessity to draw women to drug tests have been issued in the USA. However, a study carried out in 4,000 clinics showed that one out of four women was not allowed to undergo tests and was replaced with a man on the grounds that these women didn’t have a stable menstruation rhythm. In the last years, Europe also takes into account the US recommendations, but nobody checks if these recommendations are fulfilled. Russia doesn’t follow any recommendation at all.

Thus, wherever drugs (from the main group) have been produced, any ill woman has to recognize that drugs she is going to buy were predominantly tested on men and, therefore, might be inefficient or even harmful to her health.

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