Sweating and weight loss

Many people think that with increasing perspiration they are losing weight......Yes it is true that when you perspire you lose weight.

It is actually the water that you are losing through perspiration, but remember that your body in healthy state is very good at balancing the amount of water you hold.

When you sweat,  you  lose a lot of water in the form of perspiration, next time you drink water to compensate this lost water. so the water lost through sweating is recovered.

This is not to say that you should not sweat if you are sweating it means that you are exercising, and if you are exercising it means that you are burning calories, and this burning of  calories unlike sweating  would cause permanent weight loss.

Coffee and blood pressure

Many of  us would be unaware of the effect that coffee may be dangerous in hypertensive  people. It is fact that coffee can increase your systolic  and diastolic blood pressure even if you don't have  high blood pressure. Actually coffee contains caffeine that is the main constituent that increase the blood pressure.

Mechanism:
there are many possible mechanisms for  this increase in blood pressure, one is that caffeine block the hormone that  keeps your arteries dilated.Other thinks that is causes release of  epinephrine and nor epinephrine from adrenal glands that cause elevation in blood pressure.

Treatment of gout

Treatment of Gout

• Drug mostly Used are:

1. NSAIDs (Asprin should be avoided as it can increase plasma urate at some conc.)
2. Colchicine
3. Allopurinol
4. Uricosuric Agents
For Acute inflamation
1. Indomethacin
2. Colchicine
3. Cortiosteroid for resistant episodes of gouts
Prophylactic Treatment
1. Allopurinol
2. Uricosuric Agents
Colchicine
Colchicine is an anti-inflamatory drug without anelgesic properties.

Prescription symbol

 

"The symbol "Rx" meaning "prescription" is a transliteration of a symbol resembling a capital R with a cross on the diagonal.

NATIONAL ESSENTIAL DRUGS LIST OF PAKISTAN

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NATIONAL ESSENTIAL DRUGS LIST OF PAKISTAN
             Ministry of Health
          Government of Pakistan
                   Islamabad
                      2003
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NATIONAL
ESSENTIAL DRUGS
LIST
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CONTENTS
PREFACE…………………………………….……………… vii
NATIONAL ESSENTIAL DRUGS LIST
THIRD REVISION

Insulin dosage

INSULIN AND ITS DOSAGE FORMS

1-Rate of insulin infusion:
i-If blood glucose level is less than 4mmol/lit. than give 0.5 units of insulin per hour.
ii-If blood glucose level is less than 4-15mmol/lit. than give 2 units per hour.
iii- If blood glucose level is less than 15-20mmol/lit. than give 4 units per hour

Oral anti hypertension therapy is preferred over parenteral therapy

Oral anti hyertension therapy is preferred over parenteral hypertension therapy because, chronic hypertension  is associated with auto regulatory  changes in cerebral blood flow.

selected candidates by Govt of punjab(Health department) as HOSPITAL PHARMACIST/DRUG INSPECTOR.

 

PUNJAB PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION

                                                                                                                                                  NOTICE BOARD

          The Punjab Public Service Commission announces that the under mentioned candidates have been recommended to the Provincial Government for appointment to the posts of HOSPITAL PHARMACIST/DRUG INSPECTOR (BS-17) IN THE PUNJAB HEALTH DEPARTMENT.

                  

Morphine addiction and treatment

OPIOIDS  has great propensity to cause addiction and its effect on health is always detrimental.
The opoids addiction is one of the most common behavioral process and by this process person use it again and again, with out caring  about his health.
This long lasting use is leading way to produce craving for narcotics particularly morphine and its derivatives.
The drug use starts when person start facing difficulties in his life and wanted to be remain soothe and calm so, to soothe his emotions and difficulties he starts taking drugs particularly MORPHINE.