Apart from the well-known fact that sleep is crucial for any sick person, being able to wake up and stay awake is equally critical for hard-working people everywhere. Vicks, in an advertisement for its products Dayquil and Nyquil, showcases both the pacifying and awakening abilities of the medications it is trying to sell to consumers. Vicks focuses its advertisement on relatable elements of a typical household, uses influential coloration, and therefore properly convinces the reader that its products
Use of Symbolism in Three Green Windows Superficially, Anne Sexton's poem Three Green Windows is an account of an old woman daydreaming an the verge of sleep. Upon looking deeper the reader realizes, through the use of general symbolism, the author portrayed the daydreams about a better life by a middle-aged woman, recalling the events of her past, and picturing what her future will be like. The order of the stanzas followed the order of present, past, then future. The organization made the
How many times a day does one say they are tired? While walking through school hallways, work places, almost anywhere one can hear someone say, “I am so tired.” Many have routines that start early in the morning and end late at night. Running through the normal routines of school, work and any other scheduled events can eliminate one’s energy. Napping once a day can help the problem of being tired all the time, while promoting health, keeping one refreshed, relaxed and prolonging energy. Even though
"The Jaguar" is about a trip that Hughes made to the zoo. In the poem, he describes the animals in a zoo and their behaviour. It compares the apes, parrots, tiger, lion and a boa constrictor to the jaguar, which is an animal that lives differently to the others in the way that it views its life. The poem begins by describing the apes 'yawning' and 'adoring their fleas', and the fact that they are in the sun adds to the sleepy air. I think this line was deliberately chosen to convey the monotonous
Assignment 4 First Draft Imagine waking up one normal morning getting ready for work. You get into your car and drive off to your work place. Everything goes well at work with no problems at all. At the end of the day it is time to go to your peaceful home. As soon as you get to your car a random stranger comes up to you and starts beating you with a bat for no apparent reason only because you happened to be there at the same time the stranger was. Your day is ruined, you have to go to the hospital
Dumping Syndrome Diagnosis By Jonas Wilson, Ing. Med. Dumping syndrome (DS) can be classified as early dumping syndrome (EDS) or late dumping syndrome (LDS) based on the timing of the symptoms after eating. It is a condition that is seen in up to 20% of individuals who undergo gastric, bariatric or esophageal surgeries. The rapid emptying of largely undigested food particles into the small intestines may lead to a host of complications including nausea, diarrhea, abdominal pain, hypoglycemia
The Drug Codeine We used several different sources to gather our information. We go information from Jay Moser and Sue Peterson, our two local pharmacists. We researched medical encyclopedias, journals, and magazines. Codeine is known medically as methylmorphine. It is a drug derived from opium, a poppy plant. It was discovered in 1832 by French chemist Pierre-Jean Robiquet. Codeine constitutes about 0.5 to 2.5 percent of this plant substance. The drug has been in use since the early 1900's and
Rough draft #1 for The Impact of Concussions on Athletes Major organizations of contact sports continue to deny relations between concussions and long term damage done to their athletes. Do concussions have long term effects on athletes that play in contact sports? There is a claim now that the helmets worn in football will not prevent or deter a player from receiving a concussion. I plan to research what kind of long term injuries athletes can develop from concussions throughout the course of
AMANTADINE Generic Name: Amantadine Brand Name: SYMMETREL INTRODUCTION Amantadine is antiviral and antiparkinonism drug. INDICATIONS FDA Approved for: • Parkinson’s disease • Influenza A infection Off label uses: • ADHD • Chronic hepatitis C DOSAGE • 200 mg per day Preparations: • Tablets: 100 mg • Oral solution: 50 mg/5 ml (480-ml) PHARMACOLOGICAL ACTIONS Mechanism of Action: • It prevents the release of infectious viral nucleic acid into the host cell by interfering with the function
Metformin is administered orally. It is manufactured in active form. It is recommended that this medication be taken with food, but this decreases the bioavailability by delaying absorption (Wilbur, 2013). This medication undergoes first pass metabolism in the liver. On an empty stomach, the bioavailability of Metformin is approximately 50% to 60% and it takes 4 to 8 hours to reach peak plasma levels with steady state plasma levels being reached within 24 to 48 hours (U.S. Food and Drug Administration
According to Sue (2014), abnormal psychology is “the scientific study whose objectives are to describe, explain, predict, and modify behaviors that are considered strange or unusual” (p. 2). Abnormal behaviors consist of going from euphoria to severe depression as well as loss of appetite, fatigue, and insomnia. Ernest Easton is one example of someone who has these symptoms. After having an asymptomatic thyroid mass removed, he experienced drastic mood changes. For a while, Mr. Easton would be euphoric
suffering unbearably and there is no prospect for an improvement in their condition. To be able to be eligible for the “treatment” you have to be older than eighteen years old, have a terminal illness, and in the right mind for consent. You can not have somnolence, low mental state, curable disease, and depression with danger of acute
Examples of Depressants Not many people are aware that some of the chemicals they use to induce sleep or relieve stress are classified as depressants. One of the many examples of depressants commonly used is alcohol, which can depress the central nervous system. Other popular downers include tranquilizers, sedatives and anxiolytics. Although some of these are prescribed by doctors to their patients, some are recreational substances that are abused by people without knowing the risks involved. Part
Good Evening Dr. Johnson and Class, This is a 56 y.o. Caucasian female with CC of fatigue which started about 2-3 months ago. Pt describes it as “no energy to do anything I normally can do”. Fatigue is generalized, constant, and worsening, aggravated with exertion and not relieved by rest. She reports sleeping 8-9 hours per night without feeling rested. There are no associated symptoms like pain. Denies any treatment. Fatigue is severe enough that she missed a day of work 2 weeks ago because she
Marina Eskandrous Senior Project: Assignment 1: Article: “Side effects of antidepressants: An Overview” According to the DSM5 major depressive describes a person who is in a depressed mood for most of the day, nearly everyday. The person also has a diminished interest or pleasure in all, or almost all, activities most of the time. There may be significant weight loss or gain as a result of decrease or increase of appetite, respectively. The person may also experience insomnia or hyper insomnia nearly
approximately 90 minutes, Stage N 1, Stage N 2, Stage N 3, and Stage N 4, all of which are NREM sleep. Lasting for around 10 minutes, you then enter REM sleep, the amount of REM sleep increases later in the sleep cycle. Stage N 1 is sometimes referred to as somnolence or drowsy sleep, can be identified by sudden twitches, jerks, and loses some muscle tone. Some experience hallucinations during this stage and have little conscious awareness of the external environment. This stage can be identified on an EEG with
Introduction and History: Throughout the medical history there has been many diseases and viruses around the world, which lead to numerous amount of deaths. Some of the diseases are easily treatable however, for some of the diseases there is still no cure or treatment. One of the diseases that does not have a cure is known as Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis disease (ALS) or Lou Gehrig’s disease. It is the most common type of motor neurons disease. Henry Louis was a famous baseball player who was diagnosed
the role that the clergy was playing in the situation of his nation. In meditating on how the apostles were asleep when Jesus came back from his prayer in the garden of Gethsemane, More wrote, Why do not bishops contemplate in this scene their own somnolence?... For many are sleepy and apathetic in sowing virtues among the people and maintaining the truth, while the enemies of Christ, in order to sow vices and uproot the faith are wide awake… For some of them do not drift into sleep through sadness
Caffeine is one of the most well-known orally consumed drug around the world. In the 1820s, a German chemist named Friedrich Ferdinand Runge first discovered caffeine by extracting it from coffee [6]. Coffee and tea are leading sources of caffeine in the adult diet whereas caffeinated soft drinks are leading sources of caffeine in the diet of children in North America [7]. The per capita consumption level of caffeine for consumers of all ages is approximately 120mg/day [4]. The purpose of this
Pharmacogenomics is the study of variation of humans genomes and how they are affected by a response to medications, due to heredity, that would be tailor-made to adapt to a person or population genetic make up to lessen drug caused morbidity. Pharmacogenetics, which is an older term, was constructed from the words pharmacology and genetics, which now indicates the intersections of pharmaceuticals and genetics. The vision of pharmacogenomics offer a safer and more effective drugs, where more persons