Multivitamin

On Thursday, August 24, 2017 I got the experience to follow Horizon Specialty Hospital of Henderson’s Wound Care Team. During this experience, I was able to witness the removal of a wound VAC (vacuum assisted closure) and surgical stitches, different methods of wound monitoring and discussed the healing process. For new admissions, the Wound Care Team does a physical examination of the body, looking for any wounds, bruises, scars, tubes and IV placements. They take pictures, measurements and…

adult men and 55 percent of the adult women in the United States take a vitamin or mineral supplement either regularly or occasionally” (119). People may think that taking dietary supplements can increase their overall health, so they start taking multivitamins or specific vitamin pills such as Vitamin C, Vitamin B, or Omega 3 without understanding the supplements they are consuming. However, taking vitamin pills and other nutritional supplements is not effective in terms of increasing overall…

His current medications include metformin (Glucophage), insulin human regular (HumuLIN R), warfarin (Coumadin), furosemide (Lasix), carvedilol (Coreg), captopril (Capoten), potassium (KDur), thiamine (Thiamilate), multi-vitamin (One-A-Day), trazadone (Desyrel), moxifloxicin (Avelox), amiodarone (Cardarone), and a nitroglycerin patch (Nitro-Dur). The ECG revealed that the distal two thirds of the left ventricle were akinetic, and his cardiac catheterization revealed that he had an 80% occlusion…

Phenylketonuria (PKU) is a genetic disorder caused by a defect in the gene that helps create the enzyme phenylalanine hydroxylase. This enzyme helps to breakdown the amino acid phenylalanine; without this enzyme the levels of phenylketonuria (PKU) increases, this causes serious cognitive disabilities, hyperactivity, seizure, and abnormal small head (microcephaly) in infants, and small risk of brain damage.1 Phenylketonuria can affect pregnant women, babies, children and adults. Therefore, people…

according to the Harvard School of Public Health website, is above average. My grandfather had colon cancer which increases my risk, and I am not taking a multivitamin or eating enough calcium, not on birth control, and not taking at least 325mg of aspirin which also increases my risk. I will change my diet to eating more calcium or simply taking a multivitamin to lower my…

to consume the total 100% for this mineral, taking a daily multivitamin would fulfill that or consuming more dark-leafy vegetables along with beans would increase my intake for iron. Folate: For this vitamin, I consumed 145.54 ug of folate and the DRI recommends 400 ug of this per day. I only got 36% of the daily amount recommended for me which is definitely low. So, in order to increase my intake of folate, obviously a multivitamin would help a lot but some foods rich in folate include…

What are the everyday foundations of health, that should be the basics of wellness? Did you know that there are 5 key items that you , should never be without... Yes , this is before work, gym , and competitive activities. You don 't know; Let me enlighten you that statistics say that 90 percent of Americans do not get their daily essential minerals and vitamins, out of there everyday diet alone, so don 't be hard on yourself... So again what are those 5 you should never run out of... 1.…

systems that promote protein synthesis, cellular replication and collagen formation. Its recommended does is 15-50 milligram of elemental zinc in patients with pressure ulcers. Many times, all three of them are suggested in addition to a multivitamin daily. A multivitamin will provide the majority of the vitamins and minerals a patient requires. Others to consider are vitamin E for cell membrane integrity, vitamin K for coagulation, thiamin and riboflavin for collagen cross linking, and B6 and…

Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery [LRGB] is a very straightforward procedure. A person gains weight depending on how much food one eats before they feel satiated. If you eat too much before feeling full, you gain weight rapidly, and the opposite is also true. LRGB simply reduces the time it takes before a person starts feeling satiated. It reduces calorific intake and this leads to weight loss. Patients under the age of 18yrs are bound to have excellent results following surgery with…

Alberto Juarez is a 50-year-old man who has come in today with a constant and “sharp” pain in the left leg near the calf. On Sunday, the patient came back from a vacation in Europe. On Monday, he went for a jog and tripped and fell and scraped his left lower leg. He cleansed the injury and put on Neosporin. That day, the discomfort in his calf started, in a part of the leg near the area of the injury. On a scale of 1 to 10, he describes the pain as a 5 and describes it as sharp and at times,…