Medication holiday

Take a Medication Holiday. Some side effects are not a problem on a daily basis nonetheless, they can be qnite distnrbing. The best examples are sexual side effects of some antidepressants or the possible effects of stimulants upon the growth of children with ADHD. One approach has been to skip taking the medication for a brief period of time. For example, those with antidepressant-induced sexual dysfunction have sometimes circnmvented this problem by skipping a single day s dose when they plan to have sex. In a similar fashion, parents concerned with the effects of stimulants on their child s growth may have their child skip doses on the week-... 

Sleep disturbance Use drug holiday or different medication if severe growth delay Give dose earlier in the day ... 

In December, 1961, when I went home to New York for the holidays, I decided to call him. He invited me to visit him at the medical school. It was Saturday morning and Professor Wolff was making rounds with the medical students. He greeted me warmly but explained that his time was limited because he had to catch a train in the early afternoon. 

Allowing dose reductions or drug holidays will possibly keep patients in a trial and avoid them dropping out, in addition to providing a closer model to what will actually happen in practice in real life. Continued follow-up for patients who withdraw from medication should also be considered (sometimes referred to as partial withdrawal) and this will give much more flexibility when it comes to analysing the data once the trial is complete. 

The effects of stimulant medication generally cease upon discontinuation of the treatment. One double-blind study, however, did not find this to be necessarily true for DEX (Gillberg et ah, 1997). Many patients favor a period off the medication, a drug holiday, to deal with the partial suppression of weight gain, worries about long-term effects, or to assess the need for staying on medication. This type of trial is best done when the child is not scheduled for important school tests or social activities (e.g., summer camp). 

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Even when a positive effect has been documented, children are typically given a holiday off the psychostimulant during summer months when demands on their attention, concentration, and activity levels are fewer. The goal is to give the patient as long a holiday off the medication as possible. It should be at least 2 weeks so the clinician can determine whether the child needs to have the medication reinstituted during the next school year. When the continued need for the medication is equivocal, a holiday off the medication during the school year is also warranted. 

Despite these potential benefits, drug holidays are no longer used routinely because of their potential risk to the patient. Considering that these patients are in the advanced stages of Parkinson disease, discontinuing the anti-Parkinson medications even temporarily results in severe immobility, which can lead to problems such as venous thrombosis, pulmonary embolism, pneumonia, and other impairments that could increase morbidity and mortality.3 Hence, drug holidays may still be used on a limited basis in a few select patients with Parkinson disease, but this intervention is not used routinely at the present time. 

Drug holiday A period of several days to several weeks in which medications are withdrawn from the patient to allow recovery from drug tolerance or tox-... 

The loss of appetite some users experience does not necessarily translate into stunted growth. Usually, a growth rebound occurs after the first year of treatment and during periods when children are not taking the medication, such as weekends and holidays. 

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The most frequent noncompliance behaviors are deviations from the amount of dose (this includes leaving out doses), the timing of administration, and the duration of treatment. Thus, noncompliances range from short-time deviation from the administration time over randomly omitted doses up to so-called drug holidays where the patient takes a break from medication. The worst case is discontinuation of the medication, which is discussed in Section 17.8.3. 

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The government is the number one employer in our country. Government jobs are secure, have great holiday and vacation schedules, offer health insurance, and provide paid training for employees. Benefits include 10 paid holidays a year, 13 to 26 paid vacation days a year, 13 sick days a year, group life insurance, medical and dental benefits, and a government pension plan. 

Fringe benefits (FB) Contractual adders to the base labor rate medical and pension plans, vacation, travel pay, holidays, etc. 

Sexual dysfunction, delayed or absent ejaculation in men, and anorgasmia in women, are common SSRI side effects. Decreased libido may also be caused by the SSRIs. These side effects often may be diminished by dose reduction, drug holidays, or the use of other medications as antidotes, such as yohimbine, cyproheptadine, or buproprion. 

You discover that the medication is for her husband not herself. He is aged 35 years. They have recently returned home from a holiday in India. He has no other illness and takes no medication. His wife has given him Dioralyte sachets for the past four days. He has frequent diarrhoea with colicky griping pains... 

This term implies that the patient discontinues the intake of his medication for three or more consecutive days. These so-called drug holidays may tend to occur on days on which the patient changes his usual daily activities, that is chiefly at weekends, holidays and vacations. 

If a drug holiday occurs shortly before a medical consultation, the doctor may have the impression that his patient is not under satisfactory control with the medication so far prescribed. The consequence may be an increase in dosage or an unnecessary change of medication. 

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