Pro-Stat 64 Drug Info

[lacl]

I'm suppose to make a medication worksheet for my resident and I can't find much information on pro-stat 64. I looked in my drug book and there's nothing on it and so I searched online for the drug classification, drug action, etc. and I'm constantly running into the talk to physician before taking this supplement. It's not even on wedmd.com! I need to get the drug classification, drug action, why it's ordered, primary side-effects, nursing concerns, what is a normal dosage. I can figure out the ordered reason, normal dosage, but the drug classification, drug action, and the primary side-effects are impossible to find! Please help!

[MattNurse, MSN, RN]

http://www.pro-stat.com/pro-stat_indication_use.asp?product=pro-stat_64

Ordered reason: Does your resident have a wound of some kind? Or are they on tube feeds?

Drug class: Vitamin, protein, and mineral supplement

normal dosage: see web link

drug action: probably depending on your patient to aid in the healing process.

Primary side effects: probably the basics for any mineral or supplement. I wouldn't be concerned about side effects for a supplement unless something is really off w/ patient like renal failure you would be concerned about giving too much protein or vitamin toxicity, really would not be concerned too much on side effects.

[lacl]

Thank you. That is the site I used as well to get the info, but I wasn't sure on the drug actions and side effects. My resident is on tube feeding and the ordered reason was just for supplements which is why I'm having a hard time listing the primary side effects.

[MattNurse, MSN, RN]

Your nursing considerations are going to be things like don't give this drug within this period of time of this supplement. For instance if you were to give your patient levothyroxine, you would want to space that apart from the supplement, turn off the tube feeding. If the supplement has calcium in it, you would want to space certain antibiotics away from it, like cipro. Corticosteroids can speed up the absorbtion of supplements. If the supplement has vitamin K you would be concerned if patient were taking coumadin and the dose of vitamin K were changing.

Labs you would want to look at the patient's albumin and pre-albumin levels. For assessment you would want to look for signs of malnutrition. Like poor skin color, nails, hair, wounds, edema, weight loss, BUN/creatinine to measure their kidney function, BMP/CBC for anemia and electrolytes. Side effects you would want to assess are diarrhea. If you are giving too many vitamins like vitamin D, you would want to assess your calcium levels. If it has niacin would possibly have side effect of flushing.