A detailed history can be quite helpful in identifying the cause of fever and a rash. A history of recent travel, woodland or animal exposure, drug ingestion or contact with ill persons should be noted. The time of year can be a clue to certain diagnoses.2â4.
Oprah On Prescription Drugs: Americans 'Take Pills Like Candy' (VIDEO) Americans don't shy away from taking pills. According to IMS Health, an estimated 16 million people in the United States use painkillers, 5 million take sleep aids and 18 million rely on some form of antidepressants.
They asked the participants, questioned at home between 2005 and 2010, to show the interviewer any prescription sleep medication. Approximately 17,000 people responded. The CDC said the study was the first to survey adults about their sleeping aid use, as opposed to tracking prescriptions. Among the report's findings: About 4 percent of adults 20 and older used prescription sleep aids in the last month. The percentage of adults using a sleeping pill increased with age.