Although you can "hover" over an icon to see a description on a computer, I don't think you can see the description on a mobile phone (for me Android and Chrome browser).
I created a legend. The list is not exhaustive and just the symbols I saw...
It was the highlight of my day too Hector. It was great to meet the man, the myth, the legend! I’m confident our paths will cross again as we hit the home stretch to Santiago. We got this!
Thank you. Going to get help and advice tomorrow. No farmacia on the way today. May take a taxi to Cee tomorrow and go to the local hospital for advice. Some of the bites look like they could possibly develop into cellulitis, so may need antibiotics.
I was bitten on my first Camino, but if the bites had not been in a place on my body that I could see, I never would have known as I had not itching or other reaction.
BTW, I was bitten while inside my permethrin treated silk sleep sack...
Yes, just from a couple of hours before I couldn't stand it any longer and other people were waking up due to being bitten. We and another couple took our stuff downstairs to treat it in the dryer.
Most US meds don't come in blister packs , but in pill bottles, unless specially packaged for the patient. Medications for patients in a nursing home might be ordered that way for example due to the processed used to dispense medications in a...
Yes, the VA pill bottles are huge (and I assume they must have some automatic counter when filling them). I do the exact same as curlylottie. I get the little ziploc bags from Amazon (and save and reuse them). Try to squeeze all the air out...
I second the idea of making sure that the meds are labelled. I heard of somebody who followed the advice of an online "influencer" and put their two different tablets in a couple of (clean) tic-tac boxes. Explaining what 60 white pills were to...
As a professor of pharmacy, I emphatically say, do not combine different medications in the same container, regardless of how different they appear. It is a recipe for errors. Bottles or sealable bags, properly labeled with a pharmacy label are...
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