Catherina R. Valencia, MD

☀️Sobrang init!

📌PAALALA 😎:
✅Apply a broad-spectrum sunscreen with SPF 30 or higher, 30 minutes bago ma-expose sa araw.
✅Re-apply sunscreen every 2 hours - hindi lang ito pang-paganda, iwas din sa sunburn at skin cancer.
✅Mag-baon ng tubig o sports drink and stay hydrated.
✅Iwasan ang sobra o matagalang pagbibilad sa araw.
✅Mag-baon ng pamaypay o mini-fan to keep cool.
✅Mag-dala ng payong o sumbrero.
✅Kung kaya, manatili sa presko at malamig na lugar.
✅'Wag iwanan ang mga bata o mga pets sa kotse.
✅Mag-suot ng presko at maluluwag na damit.

⚠️ Mag-ingat sa Heat-Related Illneses
✅Tignan sa picture kung ano ang mga symptoms nito at kung ano ang first aid kapag nangyari.
✅ Ugaliing magpacheck-up lalo na kung hindi mawala ang mga sintomas.

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Ingat po tayong lahat!

Reference: CDC Warning Signs and Symptoms of Heat-Related Illness

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: also known as whooping cough,
is a highly contagious bacterial disease. It is highly contagious in the early catarrhal stage, before paroxysmal cough. Incubation period is usually 7 days but it ranges from 5 to 15 days.

CAUSE
Bordetella pertussis bacteria

MODE OF TRANSMISSION
Acquired primarily through direct contact with discharges from respiratory mucus membranes of infected persons (The bacteria may be spread through droplets and indirect contact with articles freshly soiled with the discharges of infected persons.)

SIGNS & SYMPTOMS
• Cough persisting 2 or more weeks
• Fits of coughing
• Cough followed by vomiting

TREATMENT
Antibiotics may shorten the period of communicability from 7 days after exposure to 3 weeks after onset of typical paroxysms to only 5-7 days after onset therapy.

PREVENTION
Three primary immunization doses of DTaP (diphtheria, tetanus, and acellular pertussis vaccine) confer immunity to pertussis. Booster doses are recommended to be given after 1 year old, 4-6 years old, and at 11 years old.

The 5-in-1 vaccine, also known as the DTaP/IPV/Hib vaccine, is one of the first vaccines that your baby will have. It's a single injection which protects them against five serious childhood diseases.
These five illnesses are diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough (pertussis), polio, and Hib (Haemophilus influenzae type b).

This Penta/5-in-1 immunization is available in health centers nationwide.

📝Mga parts ng reseta

❤️ (red box)
GENERIC NAME
- Ito ang pangalan ng gamot na nireseta sayo
- Kahit ano'ng brand basta same generic name at same dose, ok lang bilin (however, minsan, may mga pasyente na mas hiyang sa isang brand kesa sa isa dahil sa maraming factors)

💚 (green box)
BRAND NAME
- Based sa Generics Act, dapat ito ay nasa loob ng parenthesis
"If written on a prescription pad, the brand name enclosed in parenthesis may be written after the generic name. After the Rx symbol but before the generic name,.."

🧡 (orange box)
"10mg film-coated tablet"
DOSE NG GAMOT at
URI NG GAMOT
- example: tablet, capsule, syrup, ointment etc

💙 (blue box)
- AMOUNT OR NUMBER OF PIECES NA BIBILIN
- Pwede namang hindi lahat sa isang bilihan

💛🩷(yellow and pink boxes)
- INSTRUCTIONS
- Minsan ay in words ang instructions, minsan ay in short-hand/shortcut
- Ilang tableta/capsule etc at kelan iinumin
- Inilalagay din dito kung before or after meal depende sa gamot
- Dito din sinasabi kung may iba pang instructions ang doctor

💛 Full instructions

🩷 Shorthand instructions:
Usually tatlo lagi yan, yung tatlong space represents the time of the day: UMAGA-HAPON-GABI
Yung number ay number ng tableta na iinumin niyo sa oras na yun.

For example:
0-0-1 (UMAGA-HAPON-GABI)
UMAGA - 0 (walang iinumin sa umaga)
HAPON - 0 (walang iinumin sa hapon)
GABI - 1 (isang tableta ang iinumin sa gabi)

Another example:
1-0-1
UMAGA - 1 (isang tableta ang iinumin sa umaga)
HAPON - 0 (walang iinumin sa hapon)
GABI - 1 (isang tableta ang iinumin sa gabi)

Oki? 🫶🏻

Pano naman kung 0-1-0, kelan at ilan ang iinumin na tableta?