{"id":31308,"date":"2018-09-27T14:51:13","date_gmt":"2018-09-27T14:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/?p=31308"},"modified":"2018-12-12T12:16:05","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T17:16:05","slug":"uri-pharmacy-students-win-annual-pepto-bowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/2018\/09\/27\/uri-pharmacy-students-win-annual-pepto-bowl\/","title":{"rendered":"URI Pharmacy students win annual Pepto Bowl"},"content":{"rendered":"

Team outlasts other colleges in competition to test students\u2019 knowledge of self-care<\/h4>\n
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URI College of Pharmacy students Hailey Connors (right) and Timothy Amison hoist the Pepto Bowl championship trophy. They are pictured with Professor Ginger Lemay.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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What natural product can you use to prevent migraines?<\/p>\n

Other than death, what is the most common negative side effect of Loperamide (an antidiarrheal)?
\nWhat product can remove ear wax, and is also a laxative?<\/p>\n

Pharmacists face such common \u2014 and, perhaps, not so common \u2014 questions every day when working in a community pharmacy. A pharmacist\u2019s job is about much more than filling a doctor\u2019s prescription; it is about providing whole health care to clients who visit their neighborhood drug store, including advising them about the various medications, lotions or ointments available on the shelf without a prescription.<\/p>\n

URI College of Pharmacy students Hailey Connors and Timothy Amison are well versed in helping patients who seek such self-care, as evidenced by their recent win in the Student and Pharmacist Self-Care Championship, commonly known as the Pepto Bowl. The Jeopardy-style competition challenges students\u2019 knowledge of self-care, which encompasses a person\u2019s independent actions to prevent, diagnose and treat illness, of which over-the-counter medications and supplements are an important part.<\/p>\n

Connors and Amison, both P4 students scheduled to graduate in the spring, competed against eight other collegiate teams from around New England and New York last week at Foxwoods Resort Casino. After advancing past the first round, the pair joined three other teams in the finals, a live Jeopardy-style quiz show. After outlasting two other teams, Connors and Amison faced last year\u2019s champion, St. Joseph\u2019s University in Final Jeopardy, correctly identifying cardio-vascular toxicity as a common side effect of Lopermide to capture URI\u2019s fourth championship in the last decade.<\/p>\n

\u201cTim and Hailey are extremely knowledgeable of self-care,\u201d said Professor Virginia Lemay, who coached the pair along with Professor Kelly Orr. \u201cThey did extraordinary. It was unbelievable; they knew almost everything.\u201d<\/p>\n

Connors and Amison prepared for the competition by spending the week before reading their self-care text book cover to cover. The internships both have in area CVS pharmacies also helped give them the knowledge they needed, especially on one of the most obscure questions.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome of the questions I\u2019ve actually gotten before,\u201d Connors said. \u201cWhen they asked what can be used for ear wax and is also a laxative, I couldn\u2019t believe I knew that it is Docusate. Someone had just asked me that at CVS. That was the first time I had gotten that question; but it wasn\u2019t the last.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Pepto Bowl is so-named because the contest is endowed by Proctor and Gamble, maker of the over-the-counter stomach medication, Pepto-Bismol. The national Non-Prescription Medicines Academy and the National Alliance of State Pharmacy Associations compile the questions, which cover a broad array of products and uses, doses, side effects and adverse reactions. Contestants have 20 seconds to respond to each question.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe contest helps get us ready for the questions people might have when they walk into a community pharmacy,\u201d Connors said. \u201cYou have to know how to answer their questions. And a lot of it is knowing when to refer them to a doctor. You can\u2019t self-treat everything.\u201d<\/p>\n

By the way, those who choose to attempt to self-treat migraines can try the herb Butterbur. Just be sure to speak to your pharmacist first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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