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CHA-MAY WEEYA - MEDICINE TALK
Got a Plan?
An Asthma Action Plan Could Save a Life
If you or a family member has asthma,
ask your health care provider for an
asthma action plan. For more information
go to http://oregon.gov/DHS/ph/
asthmaresoucebankoarbpatientplan.shtml.
Questions? Contact DeAnna Pearl,
Tobacco Prevention and Education
coordinator, at 1-800-648-0449,
ext. 1659, or 541-444-9659, or e-mail
siletztobacco@ctsi.nsn.us.
Don’t Get Confused by New
Medicare Benefit
Elders - Don’t let the information
coming out about Medicare’s new drug
benefit (also called Medicare D) get you
confused. The Siletz Tribal Health De
partment will contact you after Nov. 15,
2005, about how to sign up.
If you also are enrolled in the Or
egon Health Plan, you will automati
cally get enrolled this summer. For ev
eryone else, signing up is voluntary and
any premiums will be reimbursed by
the Siletz Tribal Health Department.
There are no penalties for Ameri
can Indians if they don’t sign up in the
first six months that they are eligible.
There may be a savings of tribal dollars
if you sign up for a plan that the clinic
accepts and for which it can be reimbursed.
In addition, you will be able to use
your card at outside pharmacies, al
though you may need to pay a cash de
ductible at that time.
So look for more information in the
fall - and relax and have a great summer.
What Is Peak Flow?
Asthma Action Plan?
Asthma Treatment and Information for Parents
If your child has asthma, you should
know these terms.
Peak Flow represents how much air
your child can get out of his or her lungs.
Keeping track of this is a great way to
know how your child's asthma is doing.
Asthma Action Plan is a way to
manage your child’s asthma and learn
how to handle asthma attacks. Asthma
symptoms can change very quickly and
q^elfHng you k«eP
bring on an attack. Will you be ready?
Talk with your child’s health care provider
about this on your next scheduled visit.
Find great online resources at:
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http://oregon.gov/DHS/ph/asthma/
resourcebankoarbpatientplan.shtml
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http://www.keepkidshealthy.com/
asthma/index.html
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Doctor It Still Hurts
Pain Management and Smoking
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There are two types of pain: acute and
chronic. Acute pain doesn’t last long and
usually goes away as your body heals.
Chronic pain lasts at least six months
after your body is healed.
Sometimes when people have chronic
pain, they don't know what is causing it.
Along with discomfort, chronic pain can
cause low self-esteem, depression, and
anger, and it can interfere with your daily
activities.
There are lots of ways to treat pain -
short-acting medicines to treat pain that
comes and goes and long-acting medicine
for constant pain over time. Unfortu
nately, nicotine in cigarettes can make
some medicines less effective.
Smoking may not show any effects
on muscles and bones of
an otherwise healthy
smoker. But when
he or she gets hurt
or is recovering
from a medical
procedure, nico
tine has a tre-
mendously
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effect
on healing and pain. Healing is delayed
and thus the pain is prolonged.
Nicotine is a nerve stimulant and con
tains a poison called solanine that causes
muscle cramps. It also decreases blood
circulation in the body.
Tar and chemicals coat the lining of
the lungs, which greatly hinders oxygen
absorption into the bloodstream. Oxygen
absorption is necessary for damaged tis
sue to heal.
The more you smoke, the more
muscles and bones are deprived of blood
flow and nutrition essential for healing
and lessening the pain. Other sources of
exposure to nicotine (snuff, patches,
inhalers, etc.) also reduce blood flow to
the tissues.
In a chronic-pain patient who smokes,
the blood Bow to the muscles and bones
is stolen and given to the brain. This may
give the patient a very temporary feeling
of forgetting the pain while smoking and
immediately thereafter for a few minutes.
This encourages the person in chronic
pain to smoke more than before.
The more you smoke, the more
muscles and bones are deprived of blood
flow and nutrition essential for healing
and lessening the pain. On the contrary,
they start to ache more and pain escalates
even more and more as time goes by.
The person in chronic pain is in even
deeper addiction to nicotine than ever.
This makes it even more difficult to quit
smoking.
Good News
Anyone who uses tobacco products
or nicotine replacements can decrease his
or her recovery time by quitting use prior
to surgery or almost immediately after an
injury. You don’t have to wait for months
to see the results.
Within 20 minutes, blood pressure and
pulse drop to normal and the temperature
of hands and feet increases to normal.
Within eight hours, the carbon monoxide
level in the blood drops to normal and
the oxygen level in the blood increases.
Further, within two weeks to three
months your circulation improves and
your lung function increases up to 30 per
cent. This increase in oxygen increases
your healing time and decreases the time
your body is in pain.
If you are in pain for a prolonged
period of time, contact your local health
care provider. For help with cessation ser
vices and questions about quitting, please
contact DeAnna Pearl. TPEP coordina
tor, at 541 -444-9659 or I -800-648-0449,
ext. 1659, or contact the Oregon Quit Line
at 1-877-270-7867.
July 2005
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