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Therapeutic Effect |
The primary effects of intended or the desired effect; the reason the drug is prescribed |
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Therapeutic actions of drugs |
Palliative, curative, supportive, substitutive, chemotherapeutic, restorative, |
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Palliative |
Relieves the symptoms of a disease |
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Curative |
Treats the disease condition |
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Supportive |
Sustains body function until other treatment or until the body’s response can take over |
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Substitutive |
Replaced body fluids or substances |
Therapeutic Actions of Drugs |
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Chemotherapeutic |
Destroys malignant cells |
Therapeutic Actions of Drugs |
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Restorative |
Returns the body to health |
Therapeutic Actions of Drugs |
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Side effect |
Unintended or secondary effects of the drug; it is usually predictable and maybe either harmless or potentially harmful |
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Adverse effect |
More severe side effects of a drug; it justifies the discontinuation of s drug |
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Drug Toxicity |
Lethal effects of a drug on an organism or tissue, results to overdose |
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Drug allergy |
Immunologic reaction to the drug |
Responses: skin rashes, pruritus, angioedema, rhinitis, lacrimal rearing, nausea/vomiting, wheezing and dyspnea, diarrhea |
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Pruritis |
Itching of the skin with it without a rash |
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Angioedema |
Edema due to an increased permeability of the blood capillaries |
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Rhinitis |
Excessive watery discharge from the nose |
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Anaphylactic reaction |
Severe allergic reaction which immediately occurs after drug administration; this could be fatal if he symptoms are not noticed immediately and treatment is not obtained promptly |
Sudden constriction if bronchial muscles Edema of larynx and pharynx Severe difficult of breathing Give epinephrine |
