Dr Gerald Sacks Believes That It is Important to Be as Active as the Patients are Permitted to Be to Avoid OIC

1. Dr Gerald Sacks Believes That It is Important to Be as Active as the Patients are Permitted to Be to Avoid OIC Dr Gerald Sacks shares how practitioners are reluctant to discuss OIC with their patients. He feels that there is a general discomfort among the health care practitioners in discussing this part of the body and normal gastrointestinal functions. He always has a discussion with every patient who is on opioids about their bowel function. Dr Sacks explains the medications used to treat opioid-induced constipation. Naloxegol, a peripherally acting µ-opioid receptor antagonist, is used to treat OIC. It can be an effective treatment constipation. It can be an appropriate choice for patients who are taking medications that are metabolized through the same cytochrome P450 metabolic steps in the liver. He states that for opioid-induced Dr Gerald Sacks opines that although the appropriate balanced nutrition with appropriate vegetables, fruit, and dietary fiber helps prevent

2. OIC [opioid-induced constipation] and other types of constipation, it is equally important to be as active as the patients are permitted to be. He considers OIC a normal part of each patient’s visit. According to him, the practitioners must ask patient about the quality of pain, its intensity, how often it occurs, and what they are doing to increase their pain, whether pharmacologically, using physical therapy modalities or lifestyle changes. Sharing the importance of being proactive in addressing OIC early on with patients, Dr Gerald Sacks advises that practitioners need to focus on the diagnosis.