Patient was educated on how to take Actoplus Met as follows: Take Actoplus Met 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 [...]
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Patient was educated on the process to clean a spacer as follows: Clean the spacer once every month, after detaching the spacer from the inhaler. Cleaning the spacer more frequently than once a month can lead to built-up of static in the inside of the spacer, which can compromise the function of the spacer. Rinse the spacer gently with mild soap and warm water. Do not use any disinfectants to cleans the spacer. Air dry [...]
Patient was educated on advantages of using a spacer as follows: Spacer allows time to take a deep breath to inhale the medication. Spacer especially help with kids and senior citizens, who have difficulty in coordinating pressing on the canister and starting to breathe in. Spacers make it easy to coordinate. Steroid inhalers are quite expensive and spacer reduces the wastage of medication, by helping deposition of optimal dose of medication in the airways. Deposition [...]
Patient was educated on precautions to be exercised while using a spacer as follows: Always use a spacer only with an aerosol inhaler. Never use it for dry powder inhalers. Never spray more than one puff into a spacer at any time. Spray the medication into the spacer, when you are ready to use the device. Pay attention to the sound of a whistle, if your spacer has one. You hear the whistle sound, when [...]