Tinea Corporis in Breastfeeding Mother
A breastfeeding woman is diagnosed with tinea corporis and requests both oral and topical medications. What treatment is safest during breastfeeding?
Clinical Pearls
Assessing Social Determinants of Health Is Key to Managing Childhood Obesity
Author presents a practical approach to managing childhood obesity in clinical practice that includes considering social determinants of health.
Pessaries: a Conservative Approach to Pelvic Floor Disorders
Vaginal pessaries are an often overlooked but effective nonsurgical treatment for pelvic organ prolapse and other pelvic floor disorders.
Consider Myocarditis in Viral Infections
If myocarditis is incorrectly diagnosed or missed, a stable patient with mild symptoms can quickly progress to cardiogenic shock.
Anchoring the Pain Scale — Can It Be Done?
A PA re-envisions the pain scale to include follow-up questions that would provide more tangible measurements.
Ask the Expert: Asthma Treatment and Insurance
An NP asks Dr Capriotti about how to get insurance to cover a budesonide-formoterol inhaler as a reliever medication for asthma attacks or exacerbations.
Rethinking Prescribing Diclegis
Diclegis is the only FDA-approved prescription medication for nausea and vomiting of pregnancy that is classified as Category A (safe for mom an baby). Before writing a prescription, consider the price tag.
Poison Ivy Prevention
Always wear gloves to protect the skin from exposure to poison ivy, and remove them before touching anything.
Clinical Practice: Then and Now
In tandem with our 20th anniversary, we at Clinical Advisor recognize the advances that have occurred in clinical practice over the past few decades and share the perspectives of members of our audience.
Auscultating and Palpating
Close your eyes when auscultating or palpating.
Postprandial Insulin
A postprandial blood sugar level should be less than 180 mg/dL.
Liquid Stool Softener as an Earwax Removal Agent
It works by dissolving or loosening the cerumen, allowing it to be more easily removed upon irrigation.
Seasonal Allergies
If affected by seasonal allergies after returning from outside during high allergy season, wash your hands.
Radiograph For Chronic Cough
I will never forget a 3-year-old jumping actively in the office who had no active cough or wheeze but a mother who said that he coughed nightly for more than 3 weeks.
Phantom Knee Pain
Suspecting that this phenomenon might be the source of my nighttime pain, causing significant REM sleep deprivation, I reasoned that a neuromodulator such as a gabapentinoid might be helpful.
Relief for orthostatic hypotension
Patients on particular medications, or with certain underlying medical conditions, may experience orthostatic hypotension when arising from bed or a chair.
Tips for making a personal connection with your patients
Eye contact, positive body language, and humor are ways in which a clinician can make a personal connection with the patient.
Putting out the fire of a fire ant bite with toothpaste
Apply any toothpaste to fire ant bites and wash off after 10 minutes
A tip for removing a ring from a swollen finger
A household cleaner such as Windex can be used to remove a ring from a swollen finger.
Magnesium for patients taking opioids for pain
Patients who are taking opioids can manage their tolerance by taking magnesium 500mg.
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