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Question
A participant tells you, "I have high blood pressure and hardening of my arteries. I go to the doctor and take prescription pills, but I have added herbs because they are natural and totally safe."
1. What do you understand about the use of herbal products in patients with cardiovascular disease has what significance?
B. A participant tells you that she is seeing her family physician for treatment of depression and that she has been taking a serotonergic drug-generic name Nefazodone (trade name Serzone). The participant tells you that she wants to start to take St. John's wort because she has heard that this herb will help her depression get better faster.
2. How will you respond? Are there concerns or interactions with the use of St. John's Wort with serotogenic medications?
C. A participant tells the you that she would like to start taking gingko.
3. Before starting this herb, what are the important assessment questions you will ask? What are the concerns with using this medication?
D. You become concerned about your audience at the health fair. You identify that there are many older persons and families with children attending.
4. Which natural health products mentioned in this chapter may have serious interactions with anticoagulants such as heparin and warfarin?
5. List the types of individuals who may have more frequent adverse reactions to OTC drugs.
6. List the contraindications to the use of natural health products.
7. What health teaching and safety education will you emphasize for families and grandparents about OTC medication.
8. Identify an OTC product or natural product that you (or your family member) take and review the indications, drug interactions, contraindications, and adverse effects. Did you find any concerns?