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KEEP A MEDICAL "BIBLE"
If you or someone in your family is taking medication regularly, consider keeping a medical "bible" or journal.
It's a great help in an emergency when you need to come up with
information for medical authorities—and you may not be able to remember a thing.
A medical journal can also help you make sure that you or the person who
is taking medication is sticking to a schedule.
Here's how to keep a medical journal:
- Buy a notebook to help you get organized. (A
composition book works perfectly.)
- Make a Page of Emergency Phone Numbers. On the first page, or inside front cover, write down emergency phone
numbers and addresses.
- Write down the name of the medication, its color and shape, how much to take and when to take it.
If you take more than one medication, list all of them for each day.
- Keep Track. Write down any symptoms, changes, questions or concerns. Put dates by each entry.
- Comment Write any notes to yourself about how you or the patient is feeling, questions
you may have for the doctor on your next visit, symptoms the patient is showing,
side effects (and when they showed up) and so on.
The medication page of your journal should look like this:
| Name of
Medication |
Color & Shape |
How Much to Take |
When To Take It |
| Prilodrec |
Purple, oval |
one a day |
at breakfast |
Comments:
feels better after taking it, occasionally gets nauseous around noon
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Peter Devries, Author
Education
Development Center, Inc. © 2001.
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