If you take medication for diabetes, high blood pressure or pain, then you may need to be aware of sick day rules – i.e. which medications you should NOT take when you are feeling unwell. In this video I’ll explain which of your medications you should be careful of.
Hi i’m dr charlie leo and today i’m going to be talking to you about sick day rules if you are a person who takes medication for diabetes high blood pressure or pain you may need to be aware of these rules to know which medication not to take on certain days so if you’re not familiar with the term sick day rule basically means that on days where you experience a
Fever or you’re feeling dehydrated because of an illness then you should not take these medications and you should only restart them once you’ve been feeling well again for 24 hours at least so there’s a range of different medications that apply here and it doesn’t cover all medications by any means so do have a quick look through the list below in the description
If you’re not 100 sure about them and you do suffer from diabetes hypertension or you take pain medication of any kind then contact your gp or your pharmacist and they will be able to mark off exactly which medications you should stop taking so the rest of the video is just going to be me listing the different medication classes so to start off with if you have
Diabetes the three classes of medication are metformin the sglt2 inhibitors which all end in and the uh glp-1 agonists which all end in tide so out of the sglt2s that it includes dapper glyphos in emperor glyph is in canon glyph is in and erta glyph is in and most of those have brand names as well so just check the box very carefully usually it has a big brand
Name like giardians and then something small like emperor glyph was in underneath and it’s a smaller chemical name that you want to be careful of out of the glp one agonists most of these are injectable medications but one of them is a tablet form and that includes semi-glutide liraglutide exenatide and dulagliotide if you suffer from high blood pressure and
You’re on a diuretic or water tablet an ace inhibitor or an arb tablet these are also um tablets that you should stop when you’re feeling unwell so out of the water tablets or diuretics those are frusamide bendreplumethiazide indapamide and there are others so that’s not a completely exhaustive list now the ace inhibitors they’re the ones that all end in prill so
Ramipril lisinopril captopril enalapril uh the arbs all end in artan so those are slightly rarer but you may be on those and again if you’re feeling dehydrated because of a vomiting bug for example you should stop those and only start them again after 24 hours and if you take pain medication and you’re an anti-inflammatory of any kind again you should stop those
So that includes ibuprofen naproxen diclofenac and any of the ones ending in coxib like celecoxib or atora coxib which are mostly used for things like joint inflammation and joint pains all right so i hope that’s been useful and if you are worried and you’re not quite sure which medications you should or shouldn’t be taking when you’re ill then do contact your gp
Or pharmacist but the majority of medications that aren’t on the list that i just told you should be fine um and particularly if you have diabetes if you’re on other medications like insulin pioglitazone linogliptin you should continue taking those medications even if you’re feeling unwell
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Sick Day Rules By What Would Your GP Do?
