Post #20 This will help you to remember to take your meds!

Many of us need to take daily medications, and to get the best results of course it's important to take them as directed.  Some have to be taken at very precise times in order to achieve the desired effect(s) and to prevent problems from taking doses too close together or too far apart, or missing doses altogether. I was as guilty as anyone else of forgetting doses, even though I used a standard pill sorter and kept it in plain sight on the kitchen counter.

When our company decided to carry the Pharmaclock medication reminder, though, it solved that problem for me. The Pharmaclock is a pill container with a programmable alarm system. You can program up to four reminder times per day, and at the programmed times it will give both an audible alarm and a flashing light. The programming is quite easy, and the container hold a weeks worth of meds in pill form.

This has made a big difference in my medication compliance, and can be a great help to anyone having the same issue of forgetting to take meds at the correct time. The Pharmaclock is available for $19.95, or a reduced price for large quantity orders. For information re: ordering, please refer to our website at www.strategic-medical-sales.com,  or contact our office at (716) 489-8262.

Post #19 - A visual device to help quit tobacco?

Smoking any kind of tobacco, or for that matter using smokeless tobacco, increases the risk of oral, laryngeal, and esophageal cancer, as well as others that are we are probably more aware of.

If you are considering quitting any form of tobacco,  try looking up "advanced oral cancer" in Google images. Warning: it's not for the fainthearted!



Or you can click on the following link: Oral Cancer Pictures

Post # 18: Secondhand smoke form less common sources

When speaking of secondhand smoke, of course most of us think of cigarettes. What about less common sources, such as cigars or pipes? Cigars contain larger amounts of tobacco, burn more slowly, and have more porous wrapping materials. All these factors contribute to an even higher concentration of potent cancer-causing elements in the resulting secondhand smoke.

Pipes, although the resulting secondhand smoke might be more aromatic, give off the same toxic fumes as cigars.

http://www.cancer.org/Cancer/CancerCauses/TobaccoCancer/QuestionsaboutSmokingTobaccoandHealth/questions-about-smoking-tobacco-and-health-pipes-cigars

In short, no amount of smoking of any type of tobacco is safe.

By: Martha J. Powell, RRT, CEO

Strategic Medical Sales, LLC

Post # 17: Second Hand Smoke

Bear with me for a few moments, and picture this:  While you and your new neighbor are having a get-acquainted conversation, and she indicates that  her spouse and  their children are regularly  exposed to thousands of air borne chemicals including cyanide, butane, formaldehyde, ammonia, and carbon monoxide, just to name a few.  As a result, her children are prone to severe asthma attacks and ear infections, her spouse is at risk of  stroke, heart disease, cancer and  a host of other debilitating and potentially fatal conditions. In fact, her children were exposed while she was pregnant! And while she has been deliberately exposing herself to these conditions, her family is, to borrow a phrase, collateral damage.

By this time, no doubt you are slowly backing away,  picturing that she is seriously mentally ill,  has lived near a  toxic waste dump or enormous factory, is herself a serial killer, or a host of other scenarios resulting in fatal outcomes, massive lawsuits, etc.  "How can this happen in our country?", you ask.  Actually, your new friend didn't have to say a word to convey this awful scenario - she just lit up a cigarette.

Indulge me again and have a look at the following statistics. Each year in the United States, second hand smoke or SHS is responsible for:

46,000 deaths from current non-smokers
3,400 deaths from lung cancer in non-smoking adults
1,000,000 asthmatic children experiencing worsening asthma and asthma-related problems
150,000 to 300,000 cases of lower respiratory tract infections in children < 18 month of age
7,000 to 15, 000 hospital admissions per year in children
42% increased risk of stroke for the spouse of a smoker
increased risk of low birth weight and SIDS


http://www.cancer.org/Cancer/CancerCauses/TobaccoCancer/secondhand-smoke

More to follow......

By: Martha J. Powell, RRT, CEO
Strategic Medical Sales, LLC