Question

After seeing a specialist, Jack started taking a medicine for his heart that led to digestive problems. He saw a different doctor for that issue and was prescribed another drug, which led to headaches. Yet another doctor prescribed another drug for his headaches. Jack has just experienced _____.

Answer 1

Answer:Polypharmacy

Step-by-step explanation:

Polypharmacy refers to a situation whereby a person uses more than one or multiple medicine to treat a single condition or more.

It can work in some cases when it is doctor instructions.However it may have some side effects in others cases especially when patients use self medication method.

Consumption of more drugs can increase the chance of them interfering with each other. This may negatively or positively affect how they work to heal the condition.

Each drug produces it's effect which may worsen the symptoms than making someone better. Sometimes a person take a new medicine in order to eliminate the side effect causes by the first drug. Sometimes polypharmacy may result from using different medical specialists who may give you a prescription of the similar drug, the use of various pharmacies and other factors of multiple use of medicine.

Answer 2

Adverse Effects

Step-by-step explanation:

An adverse event is an undesired occurrence that results from taking a medication correctly. The event can either be a type A reaction or a type B reaction. Type A reactions are predictable adverse events which are commonly dose dependent and can be mild, moderate, or severe. Type B reactions are completely unpredictable and have nothing to do with doses. They occur less often and are influenced by patient-specific susceptibility factors such as drug allergies and intolerances. A patient may experience an adverse event due to the healthcare provider’s lack of knowledge of the drug and the medications complete mechanism. The event is not expected by either the doctor or the patient and the effects can be reduced by lowering the dose or just stopping the medication all together.

Adverse events are different from side effects and are never desired. Adverse events require interventions whereas most side effects spontaneously resolve with time