Less is more medicine!

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  1. 6. Burning sensation in the chest that can extend to the neck, throat, and face. It is the primary symptom of gastroesophageal reflux (commonly called acid reflux).
  2. 8. Abnormal memory loss that can have many causes including physical illness and medications.
  3. 11. Pressure exerted by the blood upon the walls of the blood vessels and arteries
  4. 15. The presence of glucose in the blood.
  5. 17. Slowly stop taking a medication with the help of a healthcare professional.
  6. 18. Alternatives remedies that are not medications
  7. 20. Talking with a healthcare professional to check if all your medications are still necessary.
  8. 21. Good diet will help improve the way your medications work, help reduce side effects and help you maintain the energy you need to carry out your daily activities. The opposite (malnutrition) can be very detrimental to your health.
  9. 22. Possibility of loss, injury, disease, or death.
  10. 24. Unpleasant experience that travels along nerves to spinal cord and then to the brain. Common experience for elderly.
  11. 25. Sudden confusion and result of abnormal functioning of the brain that can have many causes including physical illness and medications.
  12. 26. To officially tell someone to use (a medicine, therapy, diet, etc.) as a remedy or treatment.
  13. 29. Organ considered to be the main excretory site by which a drug is eliminated.
  14. 30. Medical condition when the amount of sugar in blood becomes too high.
  15. 31. Organ considered to be the primary site of drug metabolism.
  16. 32. Backing off medications when doses are too high, or stropping medications that may be causing harm or are no longer needed.
  17. 33. Healthcare professional that monitors, reviews, and gives advice on medications.
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  1. 1. Healthcare professional that diagnoses medical conditions. He or she prescribes, monitors and reviews medications.
  2. 2. Too much of it involves excessive worry and lasts a long time.
  3. 3. Medical condition that results when there are low numbers of red blood cells. Many causes including: poor diet, chronic disease or drug interactions.
  4. 4. Serious medication side effects.
  5. 5. It is the process by which the body breaks down medication so it can be removed from the body.
  6. 7. Medical condition that can cause long-term sadness, anger, frustration, interfere with sleep. It can sap energy and social life.
  7. 9. Any activity that involves moving the body: housework, gardening, climbing stairs. Use it or lose it!
  8. 10. High blood pressure is called silent killer that can lead to heart attacks, strokes, kidney disease and eye disease.
  9. 12. Medical condition when you have trouble controlling your bladder and leak urine.
  10. 13. Subjective evidence of a disease or physical disturbances observed by the patient.
  11. 14. Examples in that class of medications: lorazepam, diazepam, oxazepam, temazepam and bromazepam.
  12. 16. The most common peril’s facing older adults: accidentally and unexpectedly land on the ground.
  13. 19. Communication between prescribers, pharmacists, other care professionals and patients regarding benefits and harms of medications.
  14. 21. Being able to control and maintain your body’s position comfortably.
  15. 23. Difficulty getting enough sleep or poor quality sleep.
  16. 27. Use of multiple medications.
  17. 28. Acronym for Canadian Deprescribing Network, a group of individuals who are committed to improving the health of Canadians by reducing the use of harmful medicines and enhancing access to non-drug alternatives. Website: deprescribing.orgOnline resources for clinicians and patients to help with deprescribing.
  18. 33. Acronym for Proton Pump Inhibitor, a medication used to treat acid reflux