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How to Take Linagliptin

Patient was educated on how to take Linagliptin as follows: Take Linagliptin at the same time every day, to avoid forgetting the medication. Maintain good regular eating habits. Do not skip your meals. Maintain compliance with your dietary recommendations, as ordered. Maintain compliance with any exercise scheduled prescribed by your doctor. Try not to overdo on your exercise. Take weight reading at least twice a week and maintain a log of every reading for comparative [...]

Linagliptin and Mechanism of Action

Patient was educated on Linagliptin and its mechanism of action as follows: Rise in the blood sugars stimulates release of a natural hormone in the human body, called Incretin. Incretin brings about the secretion of insulin from the pancreas and insulin helps with uptake of glucose by the tissues and lowers the blood glucose. As the blood sugar decreases, the need for incretin and insulin also decreases. Consequently, the stimulus for fresh incretin and insulin [...]

Precautions to be Exercised While Taking Levofloxacin-4

Patient was educated on precautions to be exercised while taking Levofloxacin as follows: Complete the course of the antibiotic that it was prescribed for. Do not give up on the antibiotic, against your doctor’s recommendation, even if the symptoms of infection are controlled. Noncompliance with Levofloxacin intake for the complete schedule can result in ineffective infection control with chance of relapse of infection with increased vigor. This can also contribute towards emergence of drug resistant [...]

Precautions to be Exercised While Taking Levofloxacin-3

Patient was educated on precautions to be exercised while taking Levofloxacin as follows: Observe compliance with any regular lab work ordered. As Levofloxacin carries the risk for damage to the liver and is eliminated by the kidneys, hepatic and renal function could be periodically monitored, to prevent any risk for toxicity. Watch closely to report any symptoms of itching, jaundice with yellowing of skin and sclera, dark urine, altered metabolism with nausea and vomiting, pain [...]

Precautions to be Exercised While Taking Levofloxacin-2

Patient was educated on precautions to be exercised while taking Levofloxacin as follows: Levofloxacin intake can increase the risk for skin rash and photosensitivity. Individuals with history of photosensitivity and taking Levofloxacin should avoid natural and bright lights or use sunscreens, to prevent any photosensitive responses from developing. Watch closely for development of any opportunistic infections, such as, oral candidiasis with white patches in the mouth, to be reported to the physician. Levofloxacin can significantly [...]