What should you teach patient about taking their medication

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A client with genital herpes is given a prescription for PO acyclovir. The dose is 200 mg every 4 hours 5 times per day for 5 days. The patient may refill the prescription 3 times. What should you teach this patient about taking their medication?

Start taking the medicine at the first sign of a herpes outbreak There are no GI side effects with this medication Genital herpes is best treated with IV acyclovir in the hospital setting You only need to use barrier protection (condoms) when there are open lesions.

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