Do not abruptly discontinue/modify Parkinson’s disease therapy.
According to recent evidence, therapy with anti-Parkinsonian drugs is inappropriately discontinued or modified in a large percentage (up to 75%) of patients with Parkinson’s disease who are admitted to emergency or non-neurological hospital wards. This is one of...
Do not delay prescribing levodopa if appropriate, and instead, do not use drugs for the complicated phase of the disease prematurely.
Levodopa prescription as a drug treatment in Parkinson’s disease is often delayed in favour of other drug categories (such as dopamine agonists) due to concerns about the risk of drug-induced motor complications or levodopa toxicity. However, recent evidence has...
Do not use drugs that may worsen the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease, such as anti-dopaminergic, alphalitic and anticholinergic drugs, without consulting your neurologist.
People with Parkinson’s disease may require medication for other reasons. Their general practitioner should therefore be careful to consider any prescriptions from other specialists for drugs that may worsen certain motor and non-motor symptoms of the disease....
Biodiversity. Antibiotics: only when indispensables! For common respiratory infections (colds, rhinosinusitis, cough/bronchitis, flu syndromes) and bacteria in the urine without symptoms, do not prescribe antibiotics, because generally they are useless, and expose patient and family to risks, both present and future. The rule is to avoid them, leaving to doctors’ autonomy the assessment of any exception.
Microrganisms are always important, and in particular in the early years of development. Few germs are pathogenic: most of them make us live and grow in health. The above infections are mainly from viruses, against which antibiotics (AB) are useless. Even when caused...The campaign DOING MORE DOES NOT MEAN DOING BETTER – CHOOSING WISELY ITALY is promoted by Italy’s Slow Medicine
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