Nursing Teaching on How to Take Actoplus Met

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

1. Take Actoplus Met 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 Actoplus Met as ordered, with regards to dosage and frequency, to derive the benefit of the medication.
7. Do not change the dose on Actoplus Met without consulting your doctor.
8. Take a blood sugar reading always before you take dose of Actoplus Met. 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 Actoplus Met for that dose and notify your doctor regarding the same. Keeping a track of frequency of such episodes of low blood sugars, despite eating regularly, can help your physician revise your dose on Actoplus Met.
10. Also, notify your doctor, if the blood sugar continues to be high, despite taking Actoplus Met as recommended, so that, your medication dose could be revised.