JPH05184646A - Method for confirming intake of medicine by using medicine intake clock - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To intake a specific dosage of medicine at a specific time so as to exercise the maximum effect of the medicine by displaying the content of the dosage of medicine, the intake times, the number of tablets, and the medicine intake confermation column on the indication plate of a clock, and operating an alarm when a medicine intake time comes. CONSTITUTION:On the indication plate of a medicine intake clock, columns to display the content of the dosage of medicine (cont), the medicine intake times (times), and the number of tablets (tablets), and a column to memorize the confirmation (confirm) after intaking the medicine are provided. When a medicine intake time comes, an alarm in a medicine intake clock main body is operated. At the lower side of the medicine intake times, an input button A and a medicine intake confirmation button B are provided, respectively. The content of the dosage of medicine, the medicine intake times, the number of tablets, the date display (date), the medicine intake time display (taking time), and the next hospital visit day (next visit) are set on the indication plate by using the input button A. After intaking a medicine, the confirmation button B is pushed to memorize the data in the confirmation column of the clock.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention activates an alarm from a medicine taking clock to display medicine taking time, medicines to be taken, etc., to elderly people, patients who have a busy social life, or visually impaired patients. The present invention relates to a method for confirming whether or not a medicine is taken by prompting the medicine to be taken or by using a paper surface.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, there are several methods for providing time display at home or information useful for sportsmen and businessmen from various viewpoints using a clock or the like.
How can we inform a wide range of patients who need to take medicines for a long period of time, and how to properly provide medical information such as the content of medications, the number of tablets, and the date of next hospital visit? It wasn't close to me.

[0003]

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] It is our family and home visits that provide us with appropriate medical information, such as letting us know the time when it was taken or confirming whether or not we have taken medicine. There is no other helper to help me than my relatives and medical staff. In recent years, an increasing number of people are engaged in social life by taking medications at home, as shown by the enormous medical expenses, toward an aging society. It is a group of patients and patients called so-called adult diseases and chronic diseases. Most are treated by taking medicine at home. However, for patients with these chronic illnesses, the daily action of taking medicine is too simple, and after the time of administration, the patient's subjective symptoms are poor and the patient feels well before and after taking medicine. Due to the nature of the disease, in which no change is felt, one often experiences anxiety about whether or not it is really taken. It seems that so-called forgetful drinking is common among patients who are elderly or have a busy social life. It is even more difficult for patients with audio-visual impairment to confirm that they are taking medicine.

From the patient's side, depending on the content of the medicine, it is complicated and various, such as taking before meals, after meals, taking two tablets at a time, or taking three tablets at a time. From the doctor's point of view, the treatment of so-called chronic diseases such as systemic hypertension, diabetes, chronic gastritis, and hyperlipidemia may take a long period of time due to the nature of the disease, and the content of the prescription may also become complicated. Each specialist prescribes a drug strictly approved by the Ministry of Health and Welfare for each disease, for the required period and in the required amount.

The pharmacological therapeutic effect depends on the blood concentration of the drug. Therefore, the medication time should be respected. Actually, the medication time at the hospital at the time of hospitalization and treatment is strict, and the nurse of the medication department is responsible for drug delivery. However, the reality is that it is not always the case when looking at the medication situation at home.

The problem here is that the patient consequently does not take the medicine. The reason is that even if you have a willingness to take medicine, you forget it,
This is because there is no easy way to confirm whether or not you have taken medicine.

From the patient's side, when it is uncertain whether or not the medicine has been taken, it is uncertain whether the medicine should be taken. However, since there are no subjective symptoms, it is better not to take it rather than worrying about side effects by taking a large amount of medicines in duplicate, so if there is no abnormality, hopefully think, It is the psychology of many patients that occurs quite naturally. In other words, the probability of not taking it is higher.

Akinori Usuda (Nagoya City University School of Medicine, Public Health) et al. Surveyed about 500 people living in Nagoya City about local residents' meditation (medicine journal, 99-106, VoL.23, No. .8, 198
Of the 7), forgetting to take the medication is a common occurrence, and only 3 respondents answered that they did not forget to take it. Only 1 out of 509 people take it regularly,
41.5% pointed out that they did not even confirm whether they took it or not. In addition, there are housewives who mainly manage medications at home, and it is said that there are concerns about confirmation of medications when considering mutual work, a nuclear family, and a busy housewife business. Regarding the treatment of the remaining medicine, the whole 53.
0% said they would discard it, and some measures are needed.

Here, a further problem is the danger to the human body due to not taking the necessary medicine. In diabetes, places where an oral hypoglycemic agent should be taken at a predetermined time become hyperglycemic if not taken, and hypoglycemic if taken repeatedly, which causes a very dangerous state for the human body. The same is true in patients treated for hypertension, and if taken incorrectly, it may cause cerebral hemorrhage, cerebral infarction, and myocardial infarction. This is a fact that children with overwhelmingly concentrated onset of accidental complications associated with hypertension from night to midnight. It seems that people often forget to drink during the night.

Since each patient has a fixed examination date of the attending physician, he / she regularly visits the hospital, and inevitably there will be an excess of medicine. Therefore, it seems that the old medicine is discarded. Considering the nationwide scale, the number of meds to be discarded seems to be considerable. Expensive meds also cause them to be destroyed without our knowledge. The present invention has been made to solve the problems described in detail above.

[0011]

[Means for Solving the Problems] As shown in FIG. 1, a frame for displaying the content of a medicine to be taken, a time to take the medicine, and the number of tablets to be taken is provided on a marking plate of a medicine taking medicine. In addition, a frame is added to memorize the confirmation after taking. When it is time to take the medicine, the alarm will be activated from the medicine taking watch body. Further, as shown in FIG. 1, the marking plate is provided with a frame for displaying the date, the dose time, and the date of the next hospital visit. As shown in FIG. 2, the usual markings on the medicine taking timepiece display general items such as standard time display, year display, date display, and calendar display. At the bottom of the medicine medicine watch, there are provided A, input button, and B, medication confirmation button.

As shown in FIG. 1, a plug terminal C for electrically transmitting an alarm vibration signal to the medicine taking watch body.
, Connect the cord to the plug, and at the end of the cord,
Attach the diaphragm D. The diaphragm D is brought into close contact with a part of the body. There are two types of diaphragms D, a wired type that is directly connected to the main body by a cord and a wireless type that is not directly connected to the cord.

As shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, the medicine taking clock is incorporated in a medicine box or a doll, a toy, a sculpture, etc. which also serves as a medicine box, and serves as a medicine watch and medicine box or a medicine watch and medicine box. Integrate with dolls, toys and sculptures.

As shown in FIG. 5, the contents of the medicine to be taken, a medicine information column, a time of administration, the number of tablets to be taken, a frame for marking confirmation of the administration, a remarks column are provided and described on a dated paper or the like.

[0015]

As shown in FIG. 1, the signboard of the medicine taking watch is
The input button A is used to display and set the content of the medicine to be taken, the time to take the medicine, and the number of tablets to be taken. Similarly, date display, dose time display,
Set next hospital display date. When the scheduled time comes, the alarm will activate and encourage you to take medicine. After the patient or family member confirms the alarm and takes the medicine, the confirmation button B is pressed to confirm that the patient has taken the medicine, and the information is stored in the confirmation column of the clock. The usual markings on a medicine drug watch are:
As shown in FIG. 2, it is a general display such as standard time display, year display, date display, and calendar display.

As shown in FIG. 1, in order to encourage a deaf patient to take medicines,
A cord connection terminal for transmitting a vibration signal from the medicine taking watch body to the diaphragm C is provided. The patient is intimately contacted with a diaphragm C having a vibrating part on a part of his / her body, and at the time of ingestion, an electric signal is sent out from a cord connected from the main body terminal, and the diaphragm C vibrates. Using the vibration from the vibration plate C as a medium, an alarm for notifying the drug taking time by a vibration sensation prompts the drug to be taken. There are two types of diaphragm C, a wired type in which the main body is directly connected to the end of the cord, and a wireless type in which the cord is not connected to the cord.

As shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, a medicine taking clock and a medicine box or a doll, a toy, which doubles as a medicine box,
Integrate with sculpture. He is a nurse who manages medication even if it is a doll because it can be placed close to the patient or close to the family.

In the method using paper, after the drug is taken, the confirmation of the dose is marked in the frame of the confirmation of the dose in each case by the method shown in FIG. In the remarks column, describe changes in the patient's condition.

[0019]

EXAMPLES Examples of the present invention will be described below. As shown in FIG. 1, a frame for displaying the content of the medicine to be taken, the time of taking the medicine, the number of tablets to be taken, and the confirmation of taking the medicine is provided on the indicator plate of the medicine taking watch. As for the input display of the content of the medicine to be taken, detailed description of the product name is not required as shown in FIG. 1, and display of the disease name such as hypertension currently being treated is sufficient. In the example shown in FIG. 1, hypertension, diabetes, and hyperlipidemia are displayed as input. Regarding the time display, morning, noon, and evening are displayed. The number of medicines to be taken by medicine is also entered as shown in FIG. When it is time to take the medicine, an alarm will be activated from the medicine taking clock, and morning, noon, and evening indications will blink for each required medication. After taking medicine, use the medication confirmation button B to enter a confirmation mark. The blinking of the time display stops in the order in which the confirmation mark is input. The alarm may be generated for a certain period of time, and may be any one that can be confirmed visually and visually, such as acoustic long and short points repeated, continuous sound, and music.

Further, as shown in FIG. 1, the marking plate is provided with a frame for displaying the date display, the dose time display, and the next hospital admission date display. For the date display, enter a general display such as January 1st. As for the dose time display, the scheduled dose time is input according to each disease, and the time is displayed. For example, if the medicine for hypertension is to be taken every morning at 8:00 and every evening at 6:00, the input button A is used, and 8:00 am and 6:00 pm are entered in the dosing time display field. This time becomes the alarm time. After the alarm is activated at 8 am, the next dose time will be displayed as the dose time display after taking the dose and inputting the confirmation mark with the dose confirmation button. The time to take medicine for each disease may be considered to be almost the same. Also take medicine 3
2 minutes ago, the screen shown in FIG. 2 automatically changes to the medical information display screen shown in FIG. 1 to provide medical information.

As shown in FIG. 1, the medicine taking timepiece main body of claim 1 is provided with a plug terminal C for electrically transmitting vibration, and is connected to a diaphragm D having a vibrating portion at a cord end. The diaphragm D is brought into close contact with a part of the deaf person's body. At the time of medication, an electric signal is transmitted from the main body and the diaphragm D is activated, and vibration is used as a medium to notify the time of medication by a vibration sensation and prompt medication. In the case of the wireless type, the diaphragm D operates by receiving the radio wave transmitted from the main body.

As shown in FIG. 3 and FIG. 4, the medicine taking timepiece of claim 1 is used as a medicine box or a doll which also serves as a medicine box.
Built in toys, sculptures, etc. Further, by integrating the medicine taking clock and the medicine box or the doll, toy, sculpture, etc. that also serve as the medicine taking clock and the medicine box, it is possible to take the medicine more reliably without looking for the medicine when taking the medicine. 3 and 4 show an example in which a medicine taking clock and a doll which also serves as a medicine box are integrated.

In the method using paper, a table of medical information is prepared as shown in FIG.
The next hospital admission date E, the time of administration F, the number of tablets taken, and the post-confirmation confirmation G mark will be specified every day. If there is a change in physical condition,
State the condition in the remarks column.

[0024]

EFFECT OF THE INVENTION By providing medical information accurately,
Since you will be taking a prescribed amount of medicine at the prescribed time, you will be able to maximize the effect of the medicine. As a result, it is possible to avoid extremely dangerous situations for the human body, such as stabilization of blood sugar in diabetes and myocardial infarction or cerebrovascular accident in hypertensive patients. Then, by visually, audibly, and tactually seeing the display board of the watch, it is possible to easily confirm whether or not to take the medicine and the date of next hospital visit. In addition, since the drug will be taken without excess or deficiency, it is not necessary to discard the medicine. With the increasing number of patients with chronic diseases in the aging of society, less drugs will be discarded than it is now, and valuable drug costs will not be wasted. In addition, even today, when it is said that there is a shortage of nurses, even if it is a doll, if there is a nurse in our home, who manages medication as shown in Fig. Give a sense of peace of mind to the family that supports you.
By providing a remarks column on the paper, you can describe changes in your condition, etc. By having your doctor see you on the day of your examination, you can convey your daily changes in physical condition in more detail. Recently, blood pressure monitors for home use have become widespread, and there are even reports of blood pressure at home from patients. Please write in the remarks column.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an example of a screen display when providing medical information according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an example of a general display.

FIG. 3 is a view showing an embodiment in which the present invention is incorporated in a doll that also serves as a medicine box, and an alarm is activated at the time of administration.

FIG. 4 is a perspective view.

FIG. 5 is an example of a method in which a frame is provided on paper or the like, necessary items are described, and whether or not a drug is taken is confirmed.

[Explanation of symbols]

 A ・ ・ Input button B ・ ・ Drug check button C ・ ・ Plug terminal D ・ ・ Vibration plate E ・ ・ Next hospital admission mark F ・ ・ Dose time mark G ・ ・ Confirmation mark after dosing

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. The content of medication, time of administration,
A method for checking whether medication has been taken or not by using a medicine medication watch characterized by displaying the number of tablets taken, a confirmation column for taking medication, and an alarm being activated at the time of medication. 2. A terminal for electrically transmitting a vibration signal from the main body of claim 1, wherein a vibrating portion connected to a plug is directly applied to a part of the body, and an electric vibration signal is transmitted from the main body to vibrate. The watch according to claim 1, wherein the medicine is encouraged to be taken by vibrating the part. 3. A medicine box or a doll that doubles as a medicine box,
The timepiece according to claim 1, which is incorporated in a toy, a sculpture, or the like. 4. The content of the medicine to be taken, the time taken, the number of tablets taken, the column for marking the confirmation of the dose, the remarks column, etc. are written on a paper, etc., and the next hospital visit date is entered, and after the dose, a confirmation mark for the dose is taken. How to confirm whether or not you have taken medicine by clearly specifying.