Showing posts with label medications. Show all posts
Showing posts with label medications. Show all posts

Sunday, September 13, 2009

H1N1 Update for College Students


Many colleges are already putting plans in place and publicizing those plans for students. Basically, if a student gets H1N1, they’re recommending that each students, that develops the problem, have transportation to go home as part of their preparedness. They should remain home for at least 24 hours after they no longer have fever, without the use of fever reducing medications. In addition to that, for students who need to remain on campus or can’t get home, they believe self-isolation is important, which includes, social distancing-keeping about 6 feet away from others, wearing a mask when moving into a shared bathroom, and also continuing frequent hand washing and the use of a hand sanitizer. Obviously all of theses things are important because they are anticipating problems ahead of time and that may be the most important way to reduce spread. For more information, click onto www.MyMedicalReports.com.

Sunday, August 9, 2009

Recognizing Tension Headaches

It is the most common form of headache. It’s called the tension headache. Tension headaches get worse as the day goes on. You actually feel the pressure in your forehead and into the back of the head, past the occipital muscles. A tension headache is relatively easy to deal with if you can find out what has lead to the difficulty. If you don’t find out what the tension is, you may find yourself finding that you’re having pain and taking medications on a routine basis. Take the time to deal with tension headache. For more information, click onto www.MyMedicalReports.com.

Thursday, July 30, 2009

Flavored Medications and Child Safety


The medical term is compliance; getting patients to take prescribed medications and to take them consistently. It's one of those battles that's very tough to fight at times. The best way to do it is to explain carefully why the drugs need to be taken and to get all parties to buy in and believe in the importance. There are always other attempts to achieve this goal. One of the latest is to flavor medications. In fact, there are companies set up to do this to allow common medications to taste better. Now, it sounds good on the surface, but there's a problem. If medications taste good, they could be a temptation to kids. Then you have an issue of a child taking pills that could be extremely dangerous because of the taste. If you choose to go with flavored medications, please keep them away and make sure they have safety bottles. That's a very important issue. Make sure you use common sense and you don't put children at risk. For more information, click onto www.MyMedicalReports.com