Medication's Effect on Relations

by Gillian Markson | More from this Blogger

Serious illness can affect your family. When this happens, the entire family suffers, not just the patient. Here are listed many common medications for all sorts of illnesses. If you start to observe the side effects of any medication that your spouse or family member is taking, be sure to contact your physician:

Epinephrine: minor side effects include anxiety, headache, and palpitations in hyperthyroid individuals. Adverse effects such as arrhythmias and excessive rise in blood pressure may also occur. Other adverse reactions include cerebral hemorrhage and heart pain.

Albuteral is often used as an inhaler for asthma patients. 20% will report nervousness and tremor, 7% of all patients report headaches, less than 2% will experience weakness, dizziness, or irritability.

Ambien is a sleep treatment drug which has adverse effects if discontinued abruptly without doctor's advice. Restlessness can return along with nausea and anxiety. When discontinuing any sleep medication, consult your doctor first.

Benadryl is an allergy medication which parents often use to help their children sleep when they are sick. If your child happens to be allergic to it, though, it can send them into anaphylactic shock. Typical side effects are dry mouth and nasal passages. An interesting note, this medication is often given to adolescents who are detoxing in alcohol and drug treatment centers to help them sleep and relieve anxiety. Claritin is also used for allergy treatment. 19% reported headache, 16% reported insomnia.

Celebrex is prescribed for arthritis. 5% of patients in the clinical study for side effects reported diahrrea; 16% reported headaches.

Darvon is a pain medication which can cause nausea, vomiting, and dizziness. Everyone in the study felt better after they lay down. This medication is extremely good at what it does, but can cause dependency. The worse immediate reactions reported where abdominal pain and skin rashes.

Lexapro is prescribed for patients with acute depressive disorder and 15% of case studies reported nausea as the only side effect. This drug is relatively new and shows much promise for the treatment of disassociate depressive disorders.

These are just a very few of the medications that you mat have around your house. Always keep medicines out of reach of children and read carefully the directions and ingredients on the bottles of over the counter medications-especially sleep aids and cold remedies for children. Since small children may not be able to articulate exactly where they are feeling sick, err on the side of caution by calling your doctor, emergency room, or poison control center if your child appears to be having an adverse reaction to any medications-over the counter or otherwise.

Learn more about Gillian Markson

View Full Profile | More from this Blogger