Adverse effect

The topic I chose for my speech is about the effects of psychoactive medications to human beings. Since almost all my audience are students who are in the medical field and students that wants to be in medical field, I chose this so I can explain to them and compare the good and bad effects of medicine in our body. Which in this case I focused I the side effects of psychoactive medication. I have discussed my thesis which states that medication is causing more harm than cure. I had three claims…

classification, mechanism of action, metabolism and excretion, infections and common bacteria normally treated, common side effects, and adverse reactions. Three commonly used antibiotics include; Gentamicin, Bactrim, Metronidazole. Gentamicin is a broad-spectrum aminoglycoside antibiotic, used to treat severe systemic infections. Systemic infections affect the entire…

individual's normal body functioning. Adverse effects occur when a person abuses narcotics or stimulants and can perturb a person's physical body and his/her behavior. The adverse effects of narcotics produce an unfavorable condition for most humans. Narcotics such as heroin, morphine, and opium are usually taken in by people who are hurt in order to receive alleviation from the discomfort feeling that they are experiencing. Addiction and death are the major effects that a person can…

suggests that minimum wage increases result in an adverse employment effect. However, the authors stated that there are case studies from other literatures prove this otherwise. Hence, Sabia et al. (2012) re-examined this topic and conducted their research using the data from the New York State. Their research question is “Are the effects of minimum wage increases always small?”. They hypothesized that minimum wage increases will have a small effect on employment.…

muscle conditions along with rest, physical therapy, or other measures (Metaxalone, n.d.). There has yet to be an explanation to how metaxalone actually works, but it is said that it may be due to general central nervous system depression. Some adverse effect that metaxalone causes are drowsiness, dizziness, headache, irritability, nausea, vomiting, and upset stomach. Mr. Bear has only felt dizziness from the drug for the first week of taking it. The second drug Mr. Bear was prescribed was 10 mg…

to bowel sounds, abdomen distention and patient weight. The intended response of this will be decrease in patient’s diarrhea, and GI motility, reabsorption of fluid from bowels and decrease activity of bacteria in the body. But there are some adverse effects that we should not ignore. Constipation, feeling of fullness, confusion, dizziness and drowsiness. So patient needs to take drug as it is prescribed and never take double dose to prevent constipation and avoid driving because drug causes…

There are many side effects of bitter melon such as nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, headache, and low blood sugar. The CNS adverse effects of bitter melon are coma, fever, and headache. The GI adverse effects are abdominal pain and diarrhea. The GU adverse effects are uterine bleeding and uterine contractions. There is also a hematologic adverse effect that leads to hemolytic anemia. The hepatic adverse effect is hepatotoxicity. The vicine, which is the seed inside…

drug to use because it has very different metabolism than most medicines – small changes in dose result in wild swings in metabolism.” As a result of this, even small differences between Dilantin and generic name Phenytoin can cause huge clinical effects if a patient decided to switch from the brand name to a generic cheaper brand (DeNoon,…

(Hockenberry & Wilson, 2015, p. 196). The vaccination for measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) are given together in a single dose at ages 12-15 months and then again at 4-6 years. While vaccination has changed the face of medicine, there have been rare, adverse effects of the live-virus MMR vaccination such as fever and febrile seizures (Feenstra, Pasternak, Geller, Carstensen, Wang, et al. 2014). After receiving the initial vaccination around 14…

congestive heart failure. This medication also has off-label use in the prophylactic treatment of migraines (Schuh‐Hofer et al., 2007, p. 703). Lisinopril is available as an oral tablet and its bioavailability is approximately 25%. Peak antihypertensive effects of lisinopril are reached at approximately six hours after administration which correlates with peak serum levels (Gomez, Cirillo, & Moncloa, 2005, S27). Lisinopril has a half-life of approximately 12 hours. Mechanism of Action.…