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Diabetes Sick-Day Rules in a Disaster By the Jase Medical Team Diabetes sick-day rules are usually written for an ordinary week. You get the flu. Your stomach is upset. You check your blood sugar more often, keep drinking fluids, follow your medication plan, and call...
For Clinicians | Diabetes Sick-Day Rules in a Disaster By Dr. Jamie Wilkey, PharmD, Director of Clinical EducationMedically reviewed and edited by Kristen Carpenter, PA-C Diabetes is already hard to manage. Sick days just make everything worse. And a sick day in a...
Burns in a Blackout: First Aid When the Tap Doesn't Run By the Jase Medical Team Almost every burn first aid guide starts with the same instruction:Â cool the burn under clean, cool running water. But what happens when the tap doesn't run? For households that rely on a...
For Clinicians | Burn First Aid Without Running Water By Dr. Jamie Wilkey, PharmD, Director of Clinical EducationMedically reviewed and edited by Aaron Asay, PA-C, DMSc, FIBODM, FAWM Every burn first-aid guide starts the same way: cool it under running water. That's...
How to Rehydrate Someone Properly When There Is No IV By the Jase Medical Team When someone is losing fluid from vomiting or diarrhea, rehydration isn't simply a matter of getting them to drink something. The type of fluid matters. The amount matters. And especially...
For Clinicians | Oral Rehydration When IV Fluids Aren't Available By Dr. Jamie Wilkey, PharmD, Director of Clinical EducationMedically reviewed and edited by Kristen Carpenter, PA-C Hi again, it's Jamie, your pharmacist who loves writing about appropriate medical...
Why You Can't Dose a Child From an Adult Tablet You cannot reliably turn an adult medication into a child's dose just by cutting the tablet smaller. That can be frustrating to hear at 9 p.m. when the children's ibuprofen bottle is empty, the pharmacy is closed, and...
For Clinicians | Pediatric Dosing 101: What Parents Need From You Before They're Dosing Alone By Dr. Jamie Wilkey, PharmD, Director of Clinical EducationMedically reviewed and edited by Aaron Asay, PA-C, DMSc, FIBODM, FAWM Pharmacy school drills one line into you over...
What Is Plague? By the Jase Medical Team Plague is back in the headlines, and people are suddenly Googling a disease they may not have thought about since history class. A 28-year-old laboratory worker at an anti-plague research institute in Siberia recently died...