Patient was educated on how to take Organic Nitrates as follows:
- Take the medication at the same time every day, to avoid forgetting the medication.
- Maintain strict compliance with intake of the medication as ordered, with regards to dosage and frequency, to derive the benefit of the medication.
- Do not change the dose on Organic Nitrates without consulting your doctor.
- Take a blood pressure reading always before you take the pill. Maintain a log of every day blood pressure readings.
- If the blood pressure is too low, you can defer taking the medication for that dose. Notify your doctor on the same.
- Notify your doctor, if more of such occurrences are happening, so that, your medication dose could be revised.
- If these agents are used in the management of heart failure, notify your doctor regarding any continuing or worsening signs and symptoms of heart failure.
- If a dose is missed, it should be taken at the earliest notice of noncompliance. If it is time for the next dose, the missed dose can be skipped. Compensating for the missed dose by taking an extra dose can pose serious risk for an episode of extremely low blood pressure and very high heart rate.
- These agents could be used in emergency situations to relieve angina and chest pain. Nitroglycerin is taken sublingual, as this offers an easy route of absorption of the medication, for a quick action during an emergency. Seek assistance to go to emergency. If chest pain is unrelieved, even after taking the prescribed dose, notify your doctor on the same. Do not overdose on Nitroglycerin, to obtain relief from the chest pain. Overdosing on this medication could be counterproductive.
