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may also benefit from the use of metformin to regulate menstruation. Many patients tolerate large doses poorly due to their gastrointestinal effects. For these patients using a taper system to gradually increase their dose over a six week period may provide increased adherence. Metformin has been shown to regulate patient’s cycles after three months of continuous, but only in those patients with insulin resistance (Wahab, 2012). Sanoee (2011) posited that metformin may also help with…

IV.3. PHYSICAL ACTIVITY: {Childhood obesity treatment book p261-264} Importance of Physical Activity: Physical activity is the only modifiable component of the energy expenditure portion of the energy balance equation. Increasing physical activity improves weight loss and maintenance and decreases obesity health hazards. Strategies to increase physical activity should include both increasing in structured and non-structured physical activity and reducing the amount of time spent in sedentary…

However, metformin should be avoided in the patients with risk of lactic acidosis such as people with stroke, pneumonia, myocardial infarction, heart failure, and renal insufficiency and should be stopped before any surgery or if an old person has to undergo an exploration…

Type-2 diabetes leads to adult blindness in many (citation). Increased blood glucose levels lead to complications and damage to vessels, veins and arteries throughout the body. Type-2 diabetes is frequently treated with oral medications such as metformin. Medicine however, is not the only treatment for diabetes. Mild cases of type-2 diabetes can be controlled, and at times even reversed, with changes in diet and life-style. These changes require a lot of work and self-discipline but have been…

α-Glucosidase inhibitors are saccharides that act as competitive inhibitors of enzymes needed to digest carbohydrates specifically α-glucosidase enzymes in the brush border of the small intestine. This inhibits the cleaving of di and oligosaccharides to monosaccharides, such as glucose prior to absorption. This delays the absorption of glucose and alters the release of glucose dependent intestinal hormones. Acrabose, Migltol (10) and Voglibases (11) have been extensively studied for their…

octreotide to reduce further insulin secretion. Metformin-associated lactic acidosis (MALA) can occur with both acute and chronic metformin exposure. While MALA is not common, its associated rates of morbidity and mortality can be high. Secondary to MALA, the patient may experience changes in the central nervous system, cardiovascular collapse, renal failure, and death. The primary goals of therapy are restoration of acid-base status and removal of metformin, using hemodialysis and bicarbonate…

Case Study: Assessment 3 Nursing Management Plan Nursing management of the patient is important to make sure the patient is safe and comfortable. Nursing care plans are created to aid in communication and organization of Mr. C's specific care needs and actions that can be addressed by the changing nursing staff. Upon arrival to the neurosurgical ward, Mr. C was alert, obeying commands and presenting a GCS of 15, along with a pain score of 5/10 where he was given appropriate analgesia. Left…

the guards will not let him change how he eats even though he was offered food in the kitchen. His only real meal is breakfast but he eats a very big breakfast and is not hungry the rest of the day. He exercises regularly. His other meds are Metformin 1000 mg twice a day, lisinopril which he does not take, aspirin which he does take. OBJECTIVE…

Treatments of Type 2 diabetes After being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes there is many key factors that have to take place the patient may or may not need to take medication depending on the complication and also on the lifestyle of the patient. Also, lifestyle changes will have to take place in order to prevent type 2 diabetes, the following will need to take place a diet with a low carbohydrate diet and aerobic exercise. Insulin therapy is also another way in treating this chronic disease.…

2. Introduction Prevention as defined by Martin Bloom (1996) as “coordinated actions seeking to prevent predictable problems, to protect existing states of health and health functioning, and to promote desired potentialities in individuals and groups in their physical and socio cultural setting over time.” According to standard working group effective prevention programs which holds multiple fields such as child welfare, public wellbeing, juvenile integrity, substance exploitation and mental…