URDANETA CITY UNIVERSITY

San Vicente West, Urdaneta City, Pangasinan 2428

COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES

Bachelor of Science in Nursing

DRUG STUDY
Name of Student: _ ______________________ Year Level and Group: BSM-1 BLOCK 1____________

Affiliating Agency/Area: ___________________________________________ Month/Year of Exposure: ________________________

DRUG CLASSIFICATION INDICATION SIDE EFFECTS ADVERSE EFFECTS NURSING RESPONSIBILITIES

Generic Name: Group of drugs relieve allergy, hay It is possible to During therapy, monitor the frequency and amount
Sleepiness, drowsiness
called antihistamines fever, and common cold experience drowsiness, of emesis on a daily basis. As the pregnancy
Antihistamines (most frequent)
symptoms This dizziness, headache, progresses, reassess the need for medication.
medication works by constipation, stomach
preventing your body upset, blurred vision,
Brand Name: from producing certain decreased coordination,
natural substances or dry
Doxylamine (histamine, mouth/nose/throat. If
acetylcholine). any of these side effects
persist or worsen,
Dosage: contact your doctor or
pharmacist right away.
25 mg of doxylamine
MECHANISM OF CONTRAINDICATIONS
ACTION
Concurrent use of MAOIs
Route: Doxylamine, as a first- Hypersensitivity to
(Oral) P O generation doxylamine or pyridoxine
antihistamine, works by Lactation: Doxylamine is
competitively likely to enter breast
antagonizing the binding milk and cause
Frequency: of free histamine at the irritability, excitement,
25 mg of doxylamine H1-receptor binding or sedation in infants;
at night sites. It blocks breast feeding should be
histamine's effects in the avoided.
uterus, GI tract, large
blood vessels, and
bronchial muscles.
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