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A 69-year-old male patient comes to the Community Pharmacy requesting a cream to help him improve the swelling he has in his legs. For the evaluation of this clinical case, we follow the scheme proposed by the FC Pharmaceutical Care Forum (AF-FC Forum). It is suspected that it is an Insufficiently Treated Health Problem, giving place to a Negative Result associated with Medication (RNM). The Minor Ailment Service is carried out and registered in SEFAC e_XPERT INDICA+PRO. In the first intervention, an ointment based on Sodium Polysulphate 5 mg/g and health advice it is recommended. Two weeks later, the first evaluation is carried out and the patient presents some improvement, but continues with swelling in his legs. On the second visit, normal compression stockings and capsules based on natural extracts are indicated to help eliminating liquids, as well as keep going with the ointment. In the second evaluation, the patient comments that the proposed combination works well for him and that the health problem is practically solved. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: To analytically identify, in the periodical El Centinela, news related to the sanitary conditions and care towards the wounded in the Paraguay war. Method: Serial history approach three news fragments were used to illustrate the sanitary conditions and care towards the wounded. Results: The hostile sanitary conditions where the practice of care, compress with rips of skirts of women to stop the bleeding and the use of medicinal and nutritional marijuana were one of the methods used for care. Conclusion: There wasn't the pretense of deepen the sanitary conditions and care to injured in action but carried that El Centinela periodical has regular daily richness of war, which allows somehow reassemble, even minimally, the history of care. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]