A patient is sent home on prescribed Nitroglycerin, to be taken as needed for angina. Which of the following instructions, if stated by the patient to the nurse, would require further teaching?
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Viagra is a vasodilator. When combined with nitroglycerin, it can cause a patient to have a hypotensive crisis where he becomes pale and light-headed- not a normal side effect. This drug should be protected from light and kept under the tongue without swallowing. Taking a blood pressure pill within an hour of the nitroglycerin might cause a patient to bottom out.