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Icebergs are an excellent metaphor for our knowledge of the effects of medications on nutritional health – we’re aware of their existence, but we don’t really know the size of the underwater or “hidden” component.
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Medications & Nutrition Overview
Medications can both affect our nutritional status and be affected by various foods, nutrients and our nutritional health. This overview will briefly address some of these aspects.
The terms “drugs”, “medicines” and “medications” are used interchangeably.
About pharmaconutrology
Pharmaconutrology is the study of both direct and indirect interactions between pharmaceuticals and nutrition factors.
Many aspects of these interactions are currently unexplored and thus limit its clinical application.
How - to integrate these interactions into your reports;
What - to record and comment upon;
Which - both direct and indirect interactions;
Where - to record your data and comments;
When - every assessment every time;
Why - because it is important, and because it contributes to malnutrition.
MedNut Mag Issue 1
MedNut Mag Issue 1 is an introduction to the applicability of pharmaconutrition in daily clinical practice.
This is a free resource because we believe many clinicians are unsure whether this aspect of care is relevant to their practice. Hopefully this resource will guide your professional decision and you will choose to include PharmacoNutrition in the care you can provide.
Chart variously outlining non-insulin preparations including half-life, time to peak, duration of effect, and time to steady state.
Knowing the duration of effect of each prescribed glycaemia management medicine is an important aspect of Care.
Useful for clinicians who care for those with diabetes.
B vitamin names
B vitamins are often referred to by a variety of terms that are used interchangeably, and thus causes confusion.
Osmolalities of some medicines
Osmolality is profoundly important in tolerance of medicines as its side effects are often uncomfortable and therefore unacceptable.
This is a table of 80+ medicines for which their osmolalities were relatively easy to identify.
Beginners guides
Explanatory tips on the layout of the database
Suggestions for applying the information
Expandable tables to present summary information
Useful sources of good quality research information
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Weekly abstract service - you can choose your journals.
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Weekly abstract service from a range of journals.
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Enables access to a range of vetted, good quality journals.
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Enables access to a broad range of good quality journals.
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