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From Healing to Harm: The Unintended Consequences of Polypharmacy in Seniors

PharmD Live

study in the Archives of Internal Medicine found that nearly 20% of older adults on new medications experienced a prescribing cascade (Archives of Internal Medicine, 2012). Conclusion: As we conclude Part 2 of our series on polypharmacy, clinical studies and real-world patient cases reveal its significant complexities and dangers.

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Episode 782: Wernicke’s Encephalopathy Treatment During an IV Thiamine Shortage

Pharmacy Joe

However, a study published in 2012 in BMC Clinical Pharmacology challenges that concept and seems to show that at very high doses there must be some form of passive, non-saturable absorption of thiamine. Healthy subjects were given oral thiamine at doses of 100 mg, 500 mg, and 1500 mg.

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Episode 782: Wernicke’s Encephalopathy Treatment During an IV Thiamine Shortage

Pharmacy Joe

However, a study published in 2012 in BMC Clinical Pharmacology challenges that concept and seems to show that at very high doses there must be some form of passive, non-saturable absorption of thiamine. Healthy subjects were given oral thiamine at doses of 100 mg, 500 mg, and 1500 mg.

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Top 9 Takeaways From 2232 People With Hashimoto’s

The Thyroid Pharmacist

Interestingly, Dr. Robert Krysiak and colleagues from the Department of Internal Medicine and Clinical Pharmacology at the Medical University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland, published an article about the benefits of the gluten-free diet in Hashimoto’s in 2019. I was a weak, sick, nearly bedridden woman on a ton of medicine.

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