Elderly
Glucosamine, Chondroitin and MSM for Joint Pain
Joint pain can be irritating and -of course painful! There are different options on how to treat joint pain. One of the best supplemental treatments is with glucosamine and chondroitin… Please leave us a comment about your experience! 90 Ways to Save Money on Your Prescription Medications -great FREE source for money saving tips and [...]
Baby Aspirin for Prevention of Heart Attack and Stroke
Baby aspirin (81mg) has been used for quite a while to help prevent heart attack and stroke. There has been an unofficial guideline that women over 55 years old and men over 45 years old should start taking aspirin 81mg. Now, there is some debate over who should use aspirin as prevention -which I review [...]
Statin and Grapefruit Juice
Here is the nitty gritty all about taking statin drugs (simvastatin (Zocor), Lipitor, Crestor, pravastatin, fluvastatin, lovastatin) and grapefruit juice… Please leave me a comment! Join our family and subscribe below, por favor…
Baby Aspirin Decoded
A man, Mr. K, came into the pharmacy over the weekend in desperate search for baby aspirin. Mr. K told me a very detailed story how his wife went with him to the doctor’s office. The doctor said he should take one baby aspirin every day to help his heart health and have regular [...]
Taking Too Many Drugs – Polypharmacy
I have to hit you up with this message, not just because I have an aunt that was a victim of having too many unnecessary drugs as part of her daily medication routine, but because I think it’s becoming a bigger problem for a lot of people. Polypharmacy is the word used to describe [...]
Medications and the Elderly – Part I
One of my favorite areas of medicine is the challenge involved with treating the elderly. While on rotations in school I was fortunate enough to be placed at a site with an all-inclusive care program for the elderly. The program was a mixture of adult daycare and healthcare (physicians, nurse practitioners, physical & occupational therapists, [...]
