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Monday, August 18, 2008
Summer is almost over :( Jennifer has been here for four months and we have had her working hard, so hard that we don't want her to leave at the end of the week because then Gord and I will have to work more! Jennifer's summer project was a paper and patient hand-out on Gout. Jennifer also had the opportunity to investigate and report a rare side effect of Champix.
Today I am going to add one of our ongoing projects. As you may know Stueck Pharmacy was asked by the Medical Health Office of Cypress Health Region to track the use of antidiarrheal and antinausea products in our community in order to identify a suspected gastrointestinal disease outbreak such as Norwalk virus or possible contamination of the potable water supply. We chose to track this usage by identifying the number of products purchased each day at Stueck Pharmacy. Antidiarrheal products include: loperamide (Imodium) and PeptoBismal. Antinauseant products include: dimenhydrinate (Gravol) and Pedialyte. The daily purchases are tracked on a graph and if a spike in usage is noted the Medical Health Office is to be contacted. No outbreak has been detected and to our knowledge none has occurred. I am posting the tracking data from February though April 2008.
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