Ibuprofen

14-year-old young lady who presents with her mother. Julia states that headaches occur one to two times a week and can last 1 to 2 days—puts hands on temple and describes headache as pulsing. She reports pain as 3 out of 5, and is not relieved with Ibuprofen or Naprosyn. No aura. Sometimes they upset her stomach, but she has never vomited. Sleep helps sometimes. The only thing that seems to work is distraction, so she plays Minecraft. The TV hurts her eyes. She likes to read but can’t when she…

SUBJECTIVE The offender is in clinic today to follow up on her fibromyalgia and bilateral knee pain. She is actually leaving the facility in a few days. She says she is doing well with her pain management. The Cymbalta is helping and she is using the Mobic. She plans to follow up with her orthopedist after she leaves and is thinking about having her left knee replaced where she has already had a cartilage implant. On her right knee, she had a lateral release and patellar realignment. She…

I chose lupus for my autoimmune disease. “Lupus is a chronic inflammatory disease that occurs when your body’s immune system attacks your own tissues and organs.” (Mayo Clinic, 2015). Lupus can cause inflammation that can affect the joints, skin, kidneys, blood calls, brain heart and lungs. Symptoms for lupus are fatigue, fever, joint pain, butterfly-shaped rash on face, and shortness of breath and chest pain. People who have lupus may have symptoms for some time that will disappear and may…

usually quick depending if you treat them properly. There are certain things you can do so that it heals quicker and takes the pain away. Soaking the burn in water for a few minutes can help calm the pain. Also taking medicine like acetaminophen or ibuprofen can help relief the pain. You can also apply creams and other ointments like lidocaine with aloe gel to the burned skin (health line). Make sure you don’t use ice as it may damage the wounded area further. Also applying cotton is not…

The three characters in chose that I believe deserve presents from the king are Banqou, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. My first person is Banquo and I believe he deserves more than what he got. I suspect that he should have given him ibuprofen. For all the headaches the king has given him and maybe he would need it after hearing numerous roaring shots of war. Next is Macbeth I would consider giving him a free appointment to a psychiatrist. I think he should have given him that because at that point…

Cystic fibrosis is the most common, life threatening autosomal recessive disease within the Caucasian population. It is an inherited disease caused by the mutation of a single gene on chromosome 7. Both males and females can be affected by this disease, however, it is not contagious. Around 70% of individuals with cystic fibrosis inherited the disease from not only one, but both their parents. There is over one thousand different mutations of the cystic fibrosis gene, which means that there may…

“Chickenpox is caused by the varicella-zoster virus (VZV), chickenpox used to be a common illness among kids under the age of 12 (The Nemours Foundation, 2014).” An itchy rash of macules, papules, vesicles, pustules, and scabs appears with chickenpox, all stages are present on the body at the same time. “The incubation period is the time between the invasion by the pathogen and the onset of clinical manifestations, the incubation period for chickenpox is 2-3 weeks (Leifer, 2011).” An infected…

of 38.9 degree Celsius. The systematic manifestations are fever and elevated white blood cells count. The infection continues to spread from the ankle to the knee. The treatment rationale will be to control pain and fever using analgesics such as ibuprofen and acetaminophen. Since the culture of the wound is staphylococcus aureus, antibiotic from the sensitivity result of blood sugar monitoring to make sure the blood sugar is within range. Wound care to prevent worsening of the using surgical…

Ahamed, I agree with you I cannot imagine why anyone would want to jeopardize their nursing license that one has worked so hard for. According to Monroe and Kenaga, “abuse and addiction rates are as high as 20% among practicing nurses” (2011, p. 504). One of my fellow peers that I went to school fell victim to the temptation of stealing pain medications from the patients on her unit. After nursing school, she would periodically call me out of the blue and we would chat like to time had passed…

For each type of a brain tumor the symptoms corresponding can vary based on the tumors type and location. However, the most common types of symptoms include; recurrent headaches, issues with vision, seizures, changes in personality, short-term memory loss, and difficulty speaking or comprehending. Recurrent headaches are you usually associated with metastatic brain tumors. Now these are not normal headaches that a typical person has in the morning but as the day progresses the headache seems to…