Nursing Teaching on How to Take Actos

 Nurse educated the patient and caregiver on how to take Actos as follows:

1. Take Actos at the same time every day, to avoid forgetting the medication.
2. Maintain good regular eating habits. Do not skip your meals.
3. Maintain compliance with your dietary recommendations, as ordered.
4. Maintain compliance with any exercise scheduled prescribed by your doctor. Try not to overdo on your exercise.
5. Take weight reading at least twice a week and maintain a log of every reading for comparative feedback. Maintain an ideal weight for your height.
6. Maintain strict compliance with intake of Actos as ordered, with regards to dosage and frequency, to derive the benefit of the medication.
7. Do not change the dose on Actos without consulting your doctor.
8. Take a blood sugar reading always before you take dose of Actos. Maintain a log of every day blood sugar readings for comparative feedback, as to how well the drug is helping to control the blood sugars.
9. If the blood sugar is too low, despite eating regularly and without skipping a meal, you can defer taking Actos for that dose and notify your doctor regarding the same.
10. Keeping a track of frequency of episodes of low blood sugars, despite eating regularly, can help your physician revise your dose on Actos.
11. Also, notify your doctor, if the blood sugar continues to be high, despite taking Actos as recommended, so that, your medication dose could be revised