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  LIFE SKILLS OF PHARMACIST AS MOTHER -INTERMINGLED JOURNEY  Bhavana Mutha Rph, BCMAS, BCMTMS, PDTM " God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers" By Rudyard Kipling. Subjective:   CC : AK, a 7-year-old girl, is a very picky eater and never open to trying new food choices. Due to a lack of interest in food, AK develops a habit of gobbling food without enjoying or complying with taste buds. AK started losing weight due to depleted nutrients. Objective :  (-)Height 3 feet 2 inches[ below 50 percentile] , Low BMI and hemoglobin < 9mg/dL.   (-)Current Mental health status report -Anxiety before breakfast, lunch and dinner times, and anorexic episodes. (-)AK had a low attention span and showed a decline in the school performance report. (+)Increased episodes of agitation and restlessness with pacing around lunch and dinner times. Assessment :  AK was diagnosed with malnutrition, anemia, anxiety, and anorexia. Plan: Recommend techniques of motivational interviewing,  posi

COVID 19 -Gratitude a perspective

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  March 2020, the month where dangers of covid started looming like a dark cloud on the entire globe, and it was like the world was coming to a sudden unanticipated Break!! The chaos, the panic, the fear, the uncertainty, and many more negative emotions grappled every human from a child to an adult during these unprecedented times. Eyes stayed lit on graphs, curves, and numbers! Alas !! After a few months, we all accepted the fact that Covid is here to stay, and the only wise option was to start chiming in with the prayer of positivity and gratitude. Masks and social distance became the new normal, board games, and Netflix took over in living rooms, and most of us forced into new routines of zoom and Webex meetings as a way of living with sustainability. And like the coin has two sides as we heard the death toll rising and saw gut-wrenching dead bodies on one side, the other side of the coin reflected a universal message of introspection and new possibilities and ways of life. Most fam

MTM AND DIABETES

  MTM AND DIABETES Times of COVID19 in the year 2020 will be looked up in history as times of resilience, rising to the challenges, innovating, and renovating lifestyle mindsets and ultimately traversing through to be not stagnant in the quagmire. Telehealth made its mark during this unprecedented time across the world and many new platforms emerged in terms of software and  lifting off some heavyweight regulations to make sure  care for patients was fluid without compromises. Retail pharmacist dawn on plexi glasses and masks and served as warriors to public health platforms in various ways. Diabetic patients now had to face trifold challenges in terms of protecting themselves in terms of the most vulnerable population, meet the challenges of getting their insulins and medications without any delay and stay under the radar in terms of facing dire consequences if any of them were to be infected with COVID. medication therapy management played a crucial role in such challenging times via