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| Reduce the mistakes risk with his medicines being informed about the remedies that it takes, including possible side effects and adverse interactions |
| Avoid the errors with the medicines |
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Washington Hispanic
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| A million persons suffers errors in his medicines a year in the United States. |
On having taken medicines, the errors can dream like illegal innocent persons, but the mistakes on having expired, to deliver and to administer medicines, it hurts more than one million persons a year in the country.
Nevertheless, these errors can be far-sighted.
How to avoid these errors?, one of the best forms of reducing the risk is to take the control of the proper health. It be informed about the medicines that it is taking, and monitoree his effectiveness and his side effects. Do not hesitate to consult his doctor, the pharmacist or other providers of health if it has additional questions.
The basic thing
The errors in medicines are defined as the erroneous use of some medicine. Those episodes in which a medicine provokes a negative reaction in the person are called adverse effects. An example of an error is to take trimethoprimsulfamethoxazole (a combination of two antibiotics) when it takes already warfarin (an anticoagulant). The combination of both substances can go at dangerous anticoagulation levels in the blood. Another example is to take acetaminofeno at the same time that there takes an analgesic that contains the same substance, exceeding the recommended daily dose and putting it in risk of incurring loss to the liver.
Although these errors can happen at any place, most of the times happen in the office of the doctors, hospitals and drugstores. The errors valuations change between health establishments. To know on this situation will help to prepare these errors. The most common causes of the errors of medicines are a poor communication between providers of health, between providers and patients, names of medicines that sound or there are written similarmente, doctors' prescriptions that are not understood and confused instructions.
Understand well
A good communication is a way of two routes. If it does not understand what his doctor says to him, asks it to repeat the instruction. Do not be afraid of saying that it does not understand anything, ask for a detailed explanation. For knowledge about what is the doctor speaking, here some important definitions:
Adverse effect: A negative symptom caused by a medicine.
Side effect: An unwanted result of a medication. Some of these effects can be relatively positive, like loss of weight, on having taken a medicine for the diabetes, but the doctors refer to these effects like something negative also.
Drugs interaction: The form in which a medicine works can be altered by other compounds, supplements, food and liquids. These interactions can do that the medicine does not work well, that it works better or that it causes side effects.
Look for answers
To take his health seriously means to quarrel on the medicines that it consumes. When it should be going to take a new medicine, make sure of knowledge what is the name of the generic drug and his name of market, what is what it does, how much takes a long time to do effect to itself, what the necessary dose is, how long must take it, if there exist food, liquids, other medicines or activities that he must avoid when one takes it, what the possible side effects are, what to do if they happen, what to do if one forgets him to take it, and what do if it takes more of the recommended as an accident.
At the time of the doctor
To consult questions is fundamental, but it is not sufficient. You must share information with the doctor and the pharmacist, especially if they gave him a new prescription or a new doctor sees. He must communicate to his health providers the names of the medicines that it is taking, including medicines that sell on the counter and supplements. Also, any medicine of which it is allergic or that has caused him problems in the past, if it has or has had serious problems of health, and if it is possible that it is pregnant or if it is trying to have a son.
The safety, a habit
Support a list of the medicines that is taking, including supplements and remedies without prescription.
Store his medicines in his original bundles, keep the leaflets that come with the remedies and try to use the same drugstore to obtain all his prescriptions.
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| Health reform and the Hispanics |
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| Héctor Sánchez works with the group Latin Americans Joined for the Health. Photos Felipe Lagos/WH |
For Felipe Lagos
Washington Hispanic
The topic has been on the news programs and the pages of the newspapers per months. The brutal fight between politicians of both parties seems to have no end, and the public simply has a roll spectator in this struggle.
But it must not be like that, because there is greatly for winning or losing in this reform, especially for the Latin Americans.
This way it is said by Héctor Sánchez, the director of Politics of the Trade union Advice for the Advance of the Latin-American Worker (LCLAA, for his acronym in English), and member of the group Latinos Unidos for the Health, which understands to 28 Latin agencies that they think about how to incorporate the Hispanics in the negotiations for the reform.
The legislation of the reform spent the Representatives' House on Friday, the 6th of November, and the Senate must declare itself on this matter (a pair of legislative steps is still missing before promulgating it like law), and in opinion of Towers, the Latin Americans to quarrel in what the discussions are.“ What is in game in this discussion is a central prop of the public safety, which is the health. It is one of the principal keys to give better hardware for the advance of the Latin community. The absence of a medical coverage in most of the population means a major possibility of supporting groups suspended in the poverty. For example, in 2008 it was informed that 55 % of the Latin Americans did not have medical insurance compared with 40 % of the African Americans and 25 % of the white community. There are very wide breaches. Another aspect that is very important is that, like organization, we believe that a reform d health that is not provided with a public option is not real. This inclusion of the public option is essential to attack a system corrupted by the corporations of medical insurances that want to avoid the competition at the cost of the most vulnerable and unprotected families in the country”, says Sánchez.
The web site of the coalition is www.latinosunitedforhealthcare.org.
— What type of work does the coalition?
“ This coalition appears across the Hispanic National Agency of Leadership (NHLA in English), which is a group of 28 Latin organizations. We look for a reform of just health for the community and work so that the community has a voice in the dialogue and it is possible to mobilize. Also we work so that the voices resound in the highest levels of the power, as there are the Congress and the White House. Also we inform the community about the events of the reform of health and ask for his support when it is necessary to press legislators and representatives. We need a consistent, preventive, accessible medical insurance and of quality that reduces the cost for the workpeople and his families and prevents many from falling down in the poverty for suffering illnesses or accidents. To eliminate the inequities in the health system to have a medical insurance is not sufficient. We need programs of health that educate the Latin community across culturally excellent content and that is in our language. Therefore, it is necessary to recruit workpeople of health of minority communities or Latin Americans in our case, to assign them to be employed at unattended communities and to assemble information about the health of the Latin Americans”.
— How can the community collaborate with this type of work, especially taking into consideration that this topic changes constantly?
“ On the official page that we have www.latinosunitedforhealthcare.org, we provide the most recent information to support the informed community, in the simplest language. Also there is a forum so that the people could deliver his ideas. What I recommend is to find out and to be educated on the benefits that correspond to him at present and those that can obtain under a new health reform. Also this page is provided with a tool that facilitates the communication with the legislators to press them straight”.
— It is well known that many people are suffering for not having access to the health. What says the political struggle to us on the reform of those who govern us in the country?
“ It is unthinkable that, when the reality of the health is seen in the United States, it is possible to believe that this is the country most advanced in the world, as it autoappears. The health reform one has come postponing many years and it is not possible to wait any more. Many people are suffering the negative effects of the absence of medical coverage, which is clearer in the Latin community. This is not an intelligent politics, especially in a country that is trying to go out of an economic crisis and that apparently he does not want to invest in his people. The medical coverage must allow being a luxury for the privileged ones and be a basic service of the whole population. It is urgent to have a health reform now”.
| To his health |
| Walks in Washington |
Writing / agency
Washington Hispanic
This November 14, two walks with charitable ends will be realized in the city.
The first one organized by the American Association of the Heart, will be carried out in Mall Nacional. A team of Washington Hispanic will be in the place to converse with the community. More information on the web page startgreaterwashington.org.
Another activity thinks about how to increase the education level on the health of the kidney. It will be in the stadium RFK and the funds that they are collected will benefit Kidney Trust. More information in www.kidneyawarenesstime.org calls 1 (866) 859 WALK (9255). In both activities the record begins at half after 8 (record) and the walk at 10 a.m. am.
| The physical activity is full of stories, half truths and lies disguised as advices |
| Nine myths on the exercise |
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| Some myths can be harmful at the time of doing exercise. photo: AP |
Agencies
Washington Hispanic
It is easy to fall down in the pitfall. Someone gives him an advice to improve his visit to the gymnasium and you do the same with other persons. The experts indicate that for this reason, in the world of the physical activity, the myths and the half truths abound, and that's why it is possible that they are avoiding some of these advices that you obtain all the possible benefits of the exercise, this because what you serve to a person cannot serve for other one.
For it, we present the most common myths on the exercise.
Myth 1: To run in the stationary one does not damage the knees.
Running is an excellent way of doing exercise, but it hurts the knees. The problem is caused when the weight of the body impresses the knee articulation, and this one impact is the same if it runs in the stationary one or in the street. To avoid this, his aerobic ejericio diversifies. Use the stationary bicycle or run in the elliptical one.
Myth 2: The sits-up will eliminate the abdominal fat
The sits-up help to develop the muscles of the belly, but they do not burn the fat of the stomach. For it, it must do aerobic and muscular exercise that burns calories and, with that, fat.
Myth 3: The aerobic exercise will stimulate his metabolism.
This is true, but the impact is minimal. After the exercise, the metabolism burns calories to a valuation higher than the normal thing, but the difference is not significant.
Myth 4: To swim lowers the pounds sterling of more
Swimming is a very good exercise to strengthen muscles, to increase the pulmonary capacity and to lower the stress level, but it does not serve to grow thin unless one swims per hours every day.
Myth 5: Yoga for the backache
The yoga can serve for the backache, but not for all the types. If the pain is for a muscular injury, this discipline will help, but if it is for a vertebral disc with problems, it will not serve.
Myth 6: If it does not sweat, it does not serve
Sweating is not an intensity sign, but it indicates that the body needs to cool down. It is possible to burn calories without sweating, like raising light weight or walking.
Myth 7: If it feels good, there is no problem
On having started or to do exercise again, the most common error is to give to him very hard to the physical activity. But the true thing is that the consequences of straining too much can appear two days later.
Myth 8: The machines are better
To think that the machines are better because they put him in the correct position when it does exercise is an error. It them must fit to his height and weight, and ask a manager about the correct use of the team.
Myth 9: Without pain there is no benefit
This myth can be very harmful. Although it can have a little of pain a pair of days after the physical activity, it is different to feel pain while it does the exercise. If it hurts him on having exercised, probably it is harming.
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