Table 3. Most frequent ailments, system of medicine, and sources of obtaining information for treatments in self-medication in pregnant women.
* Multiple answers
| Self-medication practice | Frequency (n = 216) | Percent |
| System of medicine selected for self-medication | ||
| Allopathic | 149 | 69 |
| Ayurvedic | 48 | 22.2 |
| Homeopathic | 19 | 8.8 |
| How do you know the name of the drugs for self-medication? | ||
| Advertisement | 17 | 7.9 |
| My previous experience | 39 | 18.1 |
| Old prescription of doctor | 70 | 32.4 |
| Recommended by pharmacist | 67 | 31 |
| Used by peers, friends, or family | 23 | 10.6 |
| For which disease you have taken self-medication in the last one year* | ||
| Acidity | 10 | 4.63 |
| Diarrhea | 12 | 5.56 |
| Running nose | 32 | 14.81 |
| Ear pain | 2 | 0.93 |
| Cough | 25 | 11.57 |
| Pain in joints | 5 | 2.31 |
| Vomiting and nausea | 17 | 7.87 |
| Muscle pain | 8 | 3.7 |
| Fever | 39 | 18.06 |
| Dandruff | 8 | 3.7 |
| Dental pain | 6 | 2.78 |
| Faints | 21 | 9.72 |
| Dysentery | 3 | 1.39 |
| Hair fall | 8 | 3.7 |
| Headache | 79 | 36.57 |
| Difficulty in swallowing | 3 | 1.39 |
| Mouth ulcer | 6 | 2.78 |
| Rash | 1 | 0.46 |
| Wounds | 3 | 1.39 |