Question

A primary health care provider has prescribed levothyroxine to a patient with hypothyroidism. what should the nurse tell the patient to promote an optimal response to the drug therapy?

Answer 1

The nurse should advise the patient to administer the medicine before taking his or her breakfast, it should be early in the morning. The hypothyroidism can be treated to result in a normal function. But it should need more attention and maintain medication to return the thyroid in the normal state.