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The patient is a 38-year-old woman who has hepatitis B infection, probably as a result of...

The patient is a 38-year-old woman who has hepatitis B infection, probably as a result of her injection drug use when she was in her 20s. She has been drug-free for 10 years. She is now prescribed to take the antiviral drug adefovir dipivoxil (Hepsera) 10 mg orally daily. She asks how long she will have to take this drug to cure the hepatitis.

Please post your answers to the following questions in complete sentences.

1. How does this drug work?

2. How should her question about how long to take the drug be answered?

3. What signs and symptoms fro side effects and adverse effects should she report to her doctor?

4. What specific precautions should she be taught about this drug?

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1.How does this drug work?

Adefovir dipivoxil is a medicine that is used to cure infection like Hepatitis B. This drug blocks the action of that Enzyme and also stops the virus from spreading and manipulating in our body. This drug helps to improve our liver function.

The drug Adefovir dipivoxil is basically an antiviral medicine which helps to prevent our body from the infection of Hepatitis B.

2.How her question about how long should to take the Drug be answered?

The treatment of Hepatitis B can be continued for 1 or more years. It’s completely depending on the patient’s condition and rate of improvement. So her question can be answered by the statement that, the patient needs to take that drug till she recovered completely from the Infection of Hepatitis B.She need to take her medicine as exactly prescribed by her doctor if she wants to get relief quickly.

It is completely depending on her physical condition and rate of Improvement.

3. What signs and Symptoms for side effects and Adverse effects should she report her Doctor?

There are some rare and adverse side effects of taking Adefovir Dipivoxil such as

  • Blood in Urine.
  • Difficulty in during breathing.
  • Extreme level of weakness.
  • Feeling of drowsy
  • Changing the color of Urine and stool.
  • Loss of hunger
  • Problem of Constipation
  • Fever
  • Vomiting tendency for all the time.
  • Abnormal and sudden pains in the Stomach

      These are rare and adverse side effects of taking Drug like Adefovir dipivoxil. The patient must need to report to her doctor if she is having these side effects.

4. What specific precaution should she be taught about this drug?

Adefovir Dipivoxil can be taken usually once in a day. A patient needs to be taught to take her medicine according to her course or prescription. A patient need to learn that she can’t able to increase or skip her dose without the consultation of her doctor.

This medicine is usually taken by the mouth. The patient needs to be taught about how she can take this medicine such as with food or without food and before the meal or after the meal.

A patient need to be taught to cultivate the habit of taking this medicine according to the prescription and do not skip the medicine for even a day.

Hayet Jeridi answered 2 months ago
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