Re: Re: The spread of pneumonia.

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Jim Stark, How Are you? No one could be bored with your explanations and we don't hear from you often enough! The last time I "bothered" OUR pharmacist was when Jan's contractures were ignored. He was hurting with spasms until the contractures finished. No muscle relaxants were prescribed and now he has no leg, arm or hand muscles at all. His back is arched and his head presses his spine. We did get Tylenol with codeine RX to use for catheter insertion horrors IF the nurses will give me a half hour's notice. Jan has little immune system function left and NO ONE from aide agencies has EVER had a cold, flu, pneumonia, handwarts, dog fleas, headlice or such. Ignorance in action has been, is , and can be a terrifying thing. If I survive Jan I'd like to generate short videos of caregiving procedures for public TV. Might not help but couldn't hurt to spread some wise advice around. My next plea for explication will be on varied use of Miralax. Jan has had no peristaltic movement for years, uses continuous Jevity and Osmolite with no nutritionist supervision, has stomach spasms and probably yeast gone wild as the latest nosocomial. He is NOT ready to give up and forum sharers are our lifeline. Bring us up to date on what is happening to you. LA Louise with appreciation and concern for you and yours as MSA friend.

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Louise.

Miralax is simply polyethylene glycol and electrolytes. Polyethylene glycol is used in many medications. It is used to clear the bowl and intestines for endoscopic procedures.

It is recommended for both short term laxative use and long term problem constipation such as for a patient in a coma to liquefy the stool, requiring less peristaltic propulsion.

The effectiveness seems to be dose related, so you may have to increase the dose or decrease the dose if the stool is mostly water.

Watch his fluid intake, because he will be absorbing less water from the bowel and may make him more prone to dehydration.

It has been found in studies to be very effective.

One comment if I may; any one who can use the word "nosocomial" in a sentence referring to infections knows more about medicine than the average non-medical person

God Bless,

Jim Stark

Re: Re: The spread of pneumonia.

Jim Stark, How Are you? No one could be bored with your explanations and we don't hear from you often enough! The last time I "bothered" OUR pharmacist was when Jan's contractures were ignored. He was hurting with spasms until the contractures finished. No muscle relaxants were prescribed and now he has no leg, arm or hand muscles at all. His back is arched and his head presses his spine. We did get Tylenol with codeine RX to use for catheter insertion horrors IF the nurses will give me a half hour's notice. Jan has little immune system function left and NO ONE from aide agencies has EVER had a cold, flu, pneumonia, handwarts, dog fleas, headlice or such. Ignorance in action has been, is , and can be a terrifying thing. If I survive Jan I'd like to generate short videos of caregiving procedures for public TV. Might not help but couldn't hurt to spread some wise advice around. My next plea for explication will be on varied use of Miralax. Jan has had no peristaltic movement for years, uses continuous Jevity and Osmolite with no nutritionist supervision, has stomach spasms and probably yeast gone wild as the latest nosocomial. He is NOT ready to give up and forum sharers are our lifeline. Bring us up to date on what is happening to you. LA Louise with appreciation and concern for you and yours as MSA friend. If you do not wish to belong to shydrager, you may unsubscribe by sending a blank email to shydrager-unsubscribe