Medications drug holiday

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

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). 

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Drug holiday A period of several days to several weeks in which medications are withdrawn from the patient to allow recovery from drug tolerance or tox-...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

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. 

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. 

Discontinuation This is an abrupt end to the previous phase. It occurs when a patient discontinues treatment of his/her own accord or on medical advice. This is a common occurrence that should not be confounded with long drug holidays. 

Drug holidays may decrease the reduction in growth rate that is associated with this medication. The medication teaching has been effective. 

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