Perhaps amusing only to me, but my mother-in-law was just started on empagliflozin and here a few days later I see its mechanism of action mentioned here. I had been meaning to look up the pharmacology of the drug (it’s newer than the last time I was practicing medicine) but hadn’t gotten around to it and I guess now I don’t need to. Thanks!
Your bit on the salt/sugar drink reminded me, rather horribly, of my first nightshift at an industrial bakery when I was 18. I was put on the bread roll ovens, which radiated a phenomenal amount of heat, so by my first break, I was desperate for a drink. One of the old lags pointed out a drinks station near the ovens and I gratefully poured myself a generous glass of what I took to be lime cordial. It was, of course, not that simple - being laced with salt to replace what we lost from our profuse sweating. Much to the assembled old lags' delight, I spat the whole mouthful out in horror! It was absolutely vile - even more so because so unexpected. The old boys, some of whom had worked there for decades, drank the stuff as if it was water, but, in the two months I was there, I could never get used to it.
Here at medschools in India, home-made ORS is a favourite topic to be tested during vivas spanning from MS2 till MS4 :P. All the pharmac/community medicine books that we read here mention Dr. Mahalnabis and the relevant history, so really cool to see you write about this!
Great thoughts, as always.
Perhaps amusing only to me, but my mother-in-law was just started on empagliflozin and here a few days later I see its mechanism of action mentioned here. I had been meaning to look up the pharmacology of the drug (it’s newer than the last time I was practicing medicine) but hadn’t gotten around to it and I guess now I don’t need to. Thanks!
Your bit on the salt/sugar drink reminded me, rather horribly, of my first nightshift at an industrial bakery when I was 18. I was put on the bread roll ovens, which radiated a phenomenal amount of heat, so by my first break, I was desperate for a drink. One of the old lags pointed out a drinks station near the ovens and I gratefully poured myself a generous glass of what I took to be lime cordial. It was, of course, not that simple - being laced with salt to replace what we lost from our profuse sweating. Much to the assembled old lags' delight, I spat the whole mouthful out in horror! It was absolutely vile - even more so because so unexpected. The old boys, some of whom had worked there for decades, drank the stuff as if it was water, but, in the two months I was there, I could never get used to it.
Here at medschools in India, home-made ORS is a favourite topic to be tested during vivas spanning from MS2 till MS4 :P. All the pharmac/community medicine books that we read here mention Dr. Mahalnabis and the relevant history, so really cool to see you write about this!
Great now I'm going to have to do a deap dive on blueberries vs straberries.