what r the questions commonly asked in brief medication questionnaire for measuring  adherence in hypertensivs
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Are you asking what questions are asked to determine if someone is taking their medications for hypertension? How many times of day do they take their medication? What medication are they on? When did they last get it refilled? If you have to call the pharmacy and ask when the last refill was. If the blood pressure is high ask are they sure if they are taking meds every day?  Do they walk regularly? \n\nMy speech to patients who I don't believe are taking meds correctly involves making them responsible. I can help them, I can advise them but ultimately their health is their responsibility. If he/she doesn't want to take their meds correctly then I also review the consequences of uncontrolled hypertension. Ultimately the patient has to take some responsibility.
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a current edition of "The Pill Book" or a current PDR (physicians Desk Referance) are quite handy. There are online pill checkers too. but they are hard to find and I lost the link.. if I find it again I'll post it in the comments
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www.sheppardsoftware.com/web_games_vocab_med.htm\nhttp://www.medword.com/MedGames/GamesMenu.html\nhttp://www.lcsc.edu/healthocc/enable02/termquiz.htm\nhttp://www.docnmail.com/tests/medical.htm
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As a moderator for several years of a health-related group, I found that a lot of people complained that their doctors were too rushed to answer their questions thoroughly, or worse yet just kind of pass them off. Many people have many more questions than they feel they can comfortably ask at a single doctor visit, and for many subsequent visits only bring up more questions. With the medical system the way it is today, doctors are rushed, and patients know it. Many times people feel guilty or uncomfortable trying to push for an answer. And there are a lot of doctors out there, whether they mean to be or not, who come across to some of their patients as unapproachable when it comes to asking questions.\n\nIn regards to dosing issues, many times drugs are used "off label" - prescribed for something other than it is approved for (for example, currently autoimmune chronic hives are being treated by some doctors with cyclosporine, an anti-rejection med used in transplant patients), or they are prescribed at higher doses (again, with chronic hives most hivers are prescribed double the usual daily dose of antihistamines, if not more). When people are given a prescription like this, it's natural to seek reassurance that this is the norm and ok, even though it was ordered by their doctors. \n\nI hope that most people who are asking health related questions are taking the information they gain from this site and use that information for further research on the internet, to confirm the information, or to give them ideas of what else to possibly look for....  And also they are hopefully using any info they get here to construct questions to ask their doctors, or to make sensible decisions with their doctors....\n\n(added May 29th) Forgot mention - Another thing I've seen a lot of as a moderator is that there are surprisingly quite a few doctors out there, even specialists, who don't know as much as one would expect. For example, with the chronic hives, there are still doctors out there who insist on doing allergy testing, even though there is plenty of documentation in the medical literature that such testing is not only a waste of time/money (very high incidence of false positive results in chronic hivers), but can be dangerous for quite a few hivers, resulting in anaphylaxis. And we also constantly see people whose doctors only have them on minimal medication, when again there is more than ample documentation that chronic hives usually requires a cocktail of meds often at higher-than-label dosing. So I can definitely understand why people are turning to fellow patients for more information.
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http://www.webmd.com/diseases_and_conditions/hypertension.htm
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Any and all medication questions should be answered by a professional and not a Yahoo-er \nHow ever, you can get great info at,  WWW.merck.com
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HTN, hypertension\nCOPD-chronic obstructive pulmonary disease \nFTT-Failure to thrive\nHA-hydroxylapatite
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Q:  What are the signs and symptoms of hypertension (high blood pressure)? \n \n A:  Although some people with high blood pressure have symptoms, such as headaches or dizziness, most people with high blood pressure have no signs or symptoms at all. That is why it is so important to have your blood pressure checked regularly by your healthcare provider. This is especially important if you are someone who is at higher risk for hypertension. \n\nIf you have already been told that you have high blood pressure, it is important to have your blood pressure checked regularly by your healthcare provider to make sure that it is staying controlled. \nhttp://www.diovan.com/info/simplystated/hypertension_symptoms.jsp\n\nA moderate increase in blood pressure does not usually cause any noticeable symptoms. Severely elevated (raised) pressure may result in headaches, increase in heart rate (palpitations), and a general feeling of tiredness and ill-health. \nA moderate increase in blood pressure does not usually cause any noticeable symptoms. Severely elevated (raised) pressure may result in headaches, increase in heart rate (palpitations), and a general feeling of tiredness and ill-health. \n\nhttp://www.diseases-explained.com/Hypertension/symptomsofhyper.html\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertension
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maybe you are a nursing student from the Perpetual help College of Manila, and your pharma adviser is mrs. Ong ryt? u can visit a lot of websites to find answers in your difficult questions.. i swear searching answers in the web for this assignment is very easy, apparently it will take you only 15 mins for this!! hehe! see yah around in perps!!\n\nfrom... ncm 201 nursing chick!
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The first line of treatment of HBP is a conservative treatment. Which means proper diet balance, exercising, lowering your weight, control of stress and lifestyle advisory and make some tests. After a period of time considered by your physician there is going to be a reevaluation. If your husband can maintain the BP in a normal or borderline range, than he would continue without medications but with periodical examination. \nIf the BP cannot be controlled by this measures, then it will be necessary to administrate a proper treatment which varies on the background conditions (presence or absence of high blood cholesterol, diabetes, kidneys disease, etc.)\nMost patients with high blood pressure can develop a normal life with a single medication, but having follow up periodically.
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it should be spelled as "sphygnomanometer".it includes-cuff, scaled glass tube,mercury,rubber tube,rubber bulb, valve,an iron body which hold all these in proper place,lock for mercury column,etc.\n If anybody  is hypertensive?he needs salt restriction in diet,regular exercise in the form of 45 minutes walk(fast walk=trotting),stess reducing  yoga or meditation along with antihypertensive medicines+diuretics if needed.get once kidney also tested to rule out the cause of disease.
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Patient name\nThe name of the medication (brand name or generic names)\nThe number of tablets or other formulations of the medication\nThe strength of the medication\nInstruction and frequency of how to take the medication\nDate of dispensary\nExpiry date\nContact number or address of pharmacy\n\nBut most of them do not address what sort of diseases they treat.
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This depends on the individual. Many do not prescribe medication at all for a systolic this low. As far as high blood pressure goes, this isn't terribly high. Many prescribe diet and exercise alone.
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try to ask the question clearely
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Try this site:\nhttp://www.centerwatch.com/patient/trials.html
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Probably with the answers within the Mental Health section. Those give several opinions about a variety of issues and experience with different prescription and herbal medicines.
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This is question to be replied by a medical practitioner. He would like to know more details as to his age, his habits like smoking, drinking, his physical activity, nature of job, job environment, family problems,heredetary factors etc, his body constitution,etc.\nHow do you measure his blood pressure. where did you measure it. how good is that measurement instrument.\nWhat made you to say the blood pressure is high.\nThere are medicines to reduce the blood pressure if medical intervention is considered necessary but remember once you start medication through out the life time it has to be continued and may dosage may vary but complete stoppage may not be advisable except in very rare cases and that too under strict medical supervision.\nReducing or completing avoiding SALT would bring down pressure dramatically and no medicine may even be necessary!!!\nDONT GO BY THE ADVISE YOU GET HERE BUT CONSULT A DOCTOR IMMEDIATELY. SELF MEDICATION IS NOT ADVISABLE.\nEVEN YOGA and PROPER WALKING EXERCISE ETC HELP BUT THATS ALL IN GENERAL AFTER FIRST YOU SEE A DOCTOR WITH YOUR HUSBAND.