“When consulting patients at the 24-hour health line, we receive a wide variety of questions. Most of them are related to routine assistance for the use of medicines, resulting from health problems.
However, there are also calls with requests to come to patients and their homes to deal with adolescent health problems or addictions, to perform drug tests, to review the baskets of medications they are taking and to tell them if they are taking them correctly.
In such cases, we offer patients to come to the pharmacy for consultation or refer them to doctors,” comments Vilmantė Mostautienė, a pharmacist at Gintarinės vaistinės.
Patience is often required
Kristina Žemaitytė-Lukošienė, another pharmacist of this network, says that strange situations occur not only when patients contact us by phone, but also when they come to the pharmacy for a live consultation.
“Once a patient asked for cough medicine and stressed that we would not offer ‘chemical’ medicine in any way. After finding out the nature of the cough and offering syrup with herbs, the resident refused it, as the latter is unpalatable to him. Then we offered an alternative to syrup in the form of tablets, but this option also turned out to be unsuitable, since it is not only difficult for the patient to swallow them, but also the tablets themselves are ineffective.
Finally, after being offered a chemical preparation for cough in the form of soluble tablets, the resident replied that this preparation would work best because it always helps him. Patience is really needed in such situations,” she says.
The interviewer shares that once a young guy visited the pharmacy who wanted to buy a pregnancy test, but had many questions that plagued him – how quickly a woman gets pregnant, when a positive pregnancy test “appears”. After the pharmacist explained what tests are available and when the earliest positive answer will appear, the boy kept asking why the test doesn’t show the answer right away, why it takes so long to wait. Then the pharmacist had to conduct a short biology lesson.
Looking for pantyhose and cat food
According to K. Žemaitytė-Lukošienė, people who visit pharmacies sometimes look for batteries, candies with fillings, cat food and are surprised not to find such goods.
“Sometimes, people notice late in the day that they have run out of one or another remedy at home, so they hurry to look for its replenishment. Shops are usually closed at night, so only pharmacies remain. More than once, patients who visited in the dark asked if we had toilet paper, razor blades, pantyhose. We sell compression tights in pharmacies, but visitors usually didn’t need them – they were only interested in simple, classic tights,” says the interviewer.
However, most of the unusual questions are received over the phone. It is likely that uncomfortable questions are easier for patients to discuss at a distance, maintaining at least a minimum of anonymity, but the pharmacist notices that people who call often have questions that have little to do with pharmacy services.
“For example, I recently received a call from a husband who asked to dissuade his wife from a job interview, because the husband does not like the job his wife is applying for. I answered that I cannot and do not have the right to discourage another person from working, and such matters should be tried to be resolved in the family – to express one’s expectations and arguments. The man thanked me for the advice, but seemed a bit confused as to why I couldn’t help dissuade his wife,” she says.
Pharmacists on duty often face unusual questions early in the morning.
“Once a colleague at 5 o’clock in the morning, received a question whether the manufacturer of the drugs used by the patient had not changed in the last 10 years and whether these drugs can be continued to be used. In the mornings, we often receive requests for advice on why it was difficult to fall asleep, why some part of the body hurts after sleep, and how such situations should be dealt with,” the pharmacist assures.
K. Žemaitytė-Lukošienė admits that strange requests occur almost every day, but the most curious situations happen right before or during the full moon.
“It is not clear how much the phases of the moon really influence human behavior, but after several unusual situations or conversations, we always glance at the calendar – maybe it sounds funny, but it is almost always a pre-full or full moon,” the interviewer summarizes.
Human-Induced Climate Crisis Blamed for Deadly Heat Wave in West Africa, Sahel: BBC Report
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The deadly heat wave that hit West Africa and the Sahel last month would not have been possible without the human-induced climate crisis. The BBC based on new scientific research. During the heatwave, hundreds of people died as a direct result of extreme temperatures.
In Mali, for example, one of the worst affected areas, the temperature exceeded 48 degrees Celsius. According to the researchers, the extreme heat is due to the use of fossil fuels. In addition, industrial deforestation depends on allowing the earth to cool sufficiently. In West Africa and the Sahel it was 1.5 degrees warmer than normal during the day and 2 degrees at night. “For some people it’s just a small difference, but for the victims that extra heat meant the difference between life and death,” the researchers said. of the victims over 60 years of age.
As a result of the climate crisis, the Earth will experience extreme weather more often. The researchers claim that last month’s heat wave happened at least once every two hundred years before the industrial age, but now the chance of this happening is once in twenty year. If the temperature continues to rise, which is expected because the consumption of fossil fuels is only increasing at this time, such heat waves will become more common.
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Understanding Sepsis: An Interview with Dr. Djillali Annane
2024-04-18 05:00:00
INTERVIEW – Djillali Annane, head of the intensive care unit at the Raymond-Poincaré hospital in Garches, deplores the lack of awareness of this disease responsible for 80,000 deaths per year in France.
Professor Djillali Annane is head of the adult medical intensive care unit at the Raymond-Poincaré hospital in Garches and director of the Larene team: Laboratory for the study of the neuroendocrine response to sepsis (UMR1173 infection & inflammation, Inserm, UVSQ, Paris-Saclay University). During the Covid crisis, this doctor dedicated to the most difficult cases was one of the media “white coats” who enlightened the public on the seriousness of Sars-CoV-2 infection and the necessary humanity that required its support.
LE FIGARO. – Sepsis, what is it ?
PROFESSOR DJILLALI ANNANE. – It is an abnormal response of our body in the grip of an infection, by a virus, a bacteria, a parasite, a fungus… Ordinarily, when we are contaminated by a pathogen, the body develops inflammation, it is a physiological response. which aims to rid us of the intruder.
In the vast majority of cases, this happens correctly, without complications…
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