Elderly Care Health Feed

Current indication of metformin is for diabetes. It’s also given in people who have pre diabetes and in women who have pcos. It can also been given in women for ovulation induction. Although there is data suggesting that long term effects of metformin has other benefits other than in diabetes.

Hi lybrate-user,
risdone mt 0.5 mg is sub-optimal dose even in geriatric population, to treat schizophrenia. The minimum effective dose is around 2 mg per day. So, please discuss with your psychiatrist to consider increasing dose of same.

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Thanks for your query on Lybrate
"As" per your clinical query is concerned please follow your answer as below-
1) The impact of insomnia on old age is -Irritability, Depression or anxiety, Difficulty paying attention, focusing on tasks or remembering, Increased errors, Tension headaches, Distress in the stomach and intestines, overweight, Increased risk and severity of long-term diseases or conditions, such as high blood pressure, Heart disease and Diabetes etc
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It is very common and not a dangerous thing..
But yes it affects the general health upto certain extent..
You can consult me through Lybrate for homoeopathic treatment.. it can be easily tackled..

Women get orgasm (peak pleasure) even during foreplay. You seem to have some premature ejaculation, you can get it treated. Do long foreplay, even you can do finger or tongue penetration to make her get orgasm. Women also have the ability to get multiple orgasms. So she is telling the truth, dont worry.

Yes, its absolutely safe, and moreover, its very much required as your hb is low and this can cause complications in pregnancy. So follow your gynaecologist advice properly.

If your knee is paining since 2 weeks, then you have to rethink whether you had any injury in the previous years. I also advise you to use knee cap which would help to prevent the knee from damaging further and also to maintain the quadriceps muscle tone. As arthritis is very common if anyone would've neglected any injury in the previous years. You can take Ultrasonic therapy in one of the nearby physiotherapy clinics which would help to heal the damaged cartilages along with shortwave diathermy...more

Hello, Thanks for the query.
Madam this combination is used quite often in many patients to control blood glucose levels. There is really no such problem as mentioned by you. As statuary requirement a number of details are mentioned in the precautions, side effects, toxic effects and adverse reactions. That does not men that the drugs are unsafe. Thanks.

Hypomania is a mood disorder. Whereas psychosis nos is a term given for abnormal behavior which doesn't fit into any specific psychotic disorder. At times judgment is lost in psychiatry illness. So he can't differentiate between right or wrong. In elderly first we need to rule out other medical causes of psychotic behavior.

Stress and extreme tiredness could be a factor for this. If it persists then you need to get your urine tests (routine & culture/ sensitivity), random blood sugar done and also you should take albendazole (1 tablet at bed time and repeat after 15 days).
Hope it takes care of your enuresis.