N511 Module 2 Assignment: Over-the-Counter Medications, Herbals, and Nutrition

N511 Module 2 Assignment:

Be sure to note the required essay lengths. Additionally, each question should have at least one scholarly source other than the textbook.

Exercises: 

• Compile a list of at least 10 herbal medications you have seen patients taking in your practice. Discuss the rationale for taking each medication, possible benefits and consequences of taking it, and drugs that it may interact with. This question can be completed as a grid or an essay.
• Compile a list of at least 10 vitamins and minerals, including the rationale for taking each medication and benefits and consequences of taking it. Also list any potential complications and drug interactions. This question can be completed as a grid or an essay.

Professional Development. Each essay-answer should contain at least one scholarly source other than the textbook.

• Choose one type of complementary or alternative (CAM) therapy and discuss its benefits in preventing and treating disease. Discuss how the use of this CAM therapy can reduce the need for medications. Research this therapy on ProQuest or another scholarly database.  What does the research demonstrate regarding its efficacy?
• Choose one nutritional supplement you see commonly prescribed or recommended by medical professionals in your practice.  Discuss the reasons why this supplement is recommended and its method of action. What concerns should you have regarding a patient taking this supplement? Could the patient overdose and if so what are the consequences and treatment?

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N511 Module 2 Assignment

N511 Module 2 Assignment: Exercise and professional Development

Medication	Rational	Benefits and consequences	Drug interactions
Ginkgo Biloba	For memory and inflammation	Helps in boosting the memory operation and improve skills used in thinking (Diamond, & Mondragon, 2017). it may cause stomach upsets	ibuprofen  such as Advil, Motrin
Fenugreek	For diabetes and pre-diabetes	It is a powerful antioxidant punch and useful for improvement of appetite. The consequence of the herbal medication is that one of which is inducing childbirth	naproxen such as Anaprox and Naprosyn
Peppermint	For sore throat and heartburn	Helps in soothing the sore throat of useful when on an upset stomach has. Khanna, MacDonald, and Levesque (2014) opine that the other users of peppermint is relieving headaches	Antacids
Lactobacillus	Used to relieve digesting issues and diarrhea	Effective in treating cases of diarrhea that result from the use of antibiotics	Medications that decrease the immune system such as cyclosporine
Cranberry	Readily available and helps in brightening the smile of an individual	Useful for the treatment of urinary tract infections	Warfarin  for  example Coumadin
Coenzyme Q-10	It is cheap and readily available	Useful for boosting the immunity and heart health. The medication is safe and one should avoid the use of blood thinners	Blood thinners and red yeast
Echinacea	The medication is cheap and can be accessed cheaply	Useful for prevention of common cold	Cytochrome P450 1A2
Horse Chestnut	The medication is easy to access	The medication is used for varicose veins and helps in reducing the cases of slow blood flows	Antidiabetes drugs for example glimepiride (Amaryl)
Melatonin	Melatonin is cheaply available for the use in stores	The medication is used to reduce the issues of sleep latency or the time that one takes to go to sleep (Reiter et al., 2016). The medication should not be used when one is driving since it causes sleepiness and drowsiness.	Birth control pills (Contraceptive drugs) The medication as well interact with Caffeine

 

 

Vitamins and minerals

Medication	Rationale for taking the medication	Benefits and consequences of taking the medication
Vitamin B1 (Thiamine)	Can be got from seeds sunflower	This is useful for the making carbohydrates and promotion of the health of the nervous system
Vitamin B2 (Riboflavin)	This is readily available in milk	Helps in breaking down proteins, carbohydrates and fasts and promote the health of skin
Vitamin B3 (Niacin)	The selection of this kind of vitamin is attributed to the fact that it is found in chicken breast meat	Helps in the process of production of energy and maintenance of the nervous system as argued by Bosland and Diamond (2015).
Vitamin C	Readily available in strawberries and broccoli	This is useful for fighting colds and maintenance of the connective tissues through the tendons in the body of an individual.
Biotin	It is found in many food substances that have multivitamins	Ensures that the body maximally makes use of the other nutrients
Folic Acid	The use of available food products helps in the production of folic acids and include the use of lentils	Helps in the prevention of neural tube birth defects and in the reproduction of new cells hence helps in the prevention of anemia
Magnesium	The nutrient is found in dark leafy greens or beans	Helps in relieving the cases of insomnia and tension hence allowing one to relax
Chamomile	Found in tea	It is believed to help in reducing sleep and anxiety
Theanine	This is readily available in amino acids that are found in green tea	The use of Theanine helps in the improvement of sleep quality
Vitamin E	It is readily available in seeds of sunflower	It is useful for the promotion of effective blood flow and improvement of the immune system

 

Professional Development

Complementary or alternative (CAM) therapy

Lindquist, Tracy, and Snyder (2018) opine that Complementary or alternative medicine (CAM) is a term that is used for the representation of the medical processes that are not standard care.  Precisely, standard medical care is the medical care in which is carried out by a medical professional who has undergone an extensive learning process to attain the requisite skills. These are carried out by medical providers such as registered nurses and psychologists.

On the other hand, contemporary medicine is a medication that are used with the standard medication but are not standard medical procedures while the alternative medicine is a medication other than the standard medicine. One of the examples of CAM therapy is Taichi. Tai chi helps in reducing the use of medication in that it helps in the reduction of cases of stress. This is attributed to the fact that it helps in the mediation and the focus in breathing process of an individual and hence may be superior to the other strategies that are used in the treatment of stress (Gellis, 2017).

The use of Tai chi is more common in the treatment of stress due to the fact that it helps in the reduction of the effects of the problem. The choice of this medication is as well attributed to the fact that it preferable due to the fact that it is not expensive and is used when one only experiences the challenge of stress. The use of this CAM therapy is as well fundamental due to the fact that it helps in the promotion of loss of weight and improves the cognition among old adults. Clarke et al. (2015) argue that the use of Tai chi has various efficient success including the fact that it helps in the reduction of cases of the strike.

Specifically, the medication is useful for the prevention of occurrence of risk factors that result in an individual getting stroke. Nyman et al. (2018) support that the use of Tai chi is helpful in the reduction of cases of fall among the patients who are old due to the fact that the therapy helps in the enhancement of gait of an individual. In turn, this helps in the improvement of the standard of patient care and hence the quality of living of patients is enhanced.

Other researchers as well have indicated that the use of Tai chi is fundamental for patients who have Parkinson condition. The issues of fall among the patients suffering from Parkinson’s diseases is seen to reduce with the use of Taichi. Nyman et al. (2018) supposed that Tai chi is instrumental in the enhancement of the physical activity, helps in the reduction of weight and helpful in the improvement of the quality of life of an individual.

Nutritional supplement

One of the common nutritional supplements that is prescribed is Probiotics. According to AlFaleh and Anabrees (2014), probiotics is a live bacteria that is recommended for use to help in the process of digestion. Typically, the supplement is useful for keeping the gut health and can be found in food such as yogurt.  The way in which these medications work is that it helps in the replacement of any of the losses in bacteria in the body. The supplement is as well of help in the process of balancing the bacteria that is good and the bacteria that is bad in the body of an individual.

As a result of the fact that the body of an individual can host up to 100 trillion bacteria, it is difficult for one to overdose the use of probiotics or good bacteria. Steenbergen et al. (2015) argue that one end up becoming healthy with the intake of more of the probiotics since it will help in the balancing of the microbes in the intestinal section. In addition, taking a large amount of this medication is expected to help in aiding digestion and hence helps in ensuring that the immune system is strong.

According to AlFaleh and Anabrees (2014), the use of probiotics could be of importance to people who have an issue with diarrhea because it helps in the balancing of the antibiotics. The inflammation of the bowel disease can as well be eliminated by the use of probiotics. The medication is as well useful for relieving pain in the stomach and bloating or constipation. The supplement is fundamental as well for the development of a healthy stomach and hence allows for ease in the process of digestion.

Although the use of probiotics could be enormous in the improvement of the health condition of an individual it could as well result in the deterioration in the standard of health of an individual. Typically, the use of the supplements could trigger allergic reactions and hence resulting in mild stomach challenges. It could as well result in the increase in changes of one getting an infection and one may end up facing challenges due to the deterioration in the immune system.