a client is taking the centrally acting alpha2 agonist, clonidine for management of hypertension. the client complains of dry mouth. identify two (2) suggestions to address this adverse effect to clonidine.

To relieve dryness of the mouth caused by taking clonidine, the patient may suck sugar-free candies or chew sugar-free gum to kindle the flow of saliva. Both the gum and hard candies can stimulate the salivary glands to produce more saliva. Another way is to limit the intake of soda or coffee as they tend to make your mouth drier; besides, they are not good for hypertensive patients.

to prevent people from getting the ebola virus, countries around the world paid to doctors develop a new vaccine. now that the vaccine has been made, doctors will need to experiment on a large number of people to find out if it works safely.

what is the greatest limitation that scientists are dealing with as they try to figure out how to experiment with the ebola vaccine?

meditation is a practice of sitting still and quiet for minutes or even hours. it has been practiced for thousands of years and is even a part of religious practices for some people. carefully controlled, repeated measurements of brain activity have shown that meditation does increase certain chemicals in the brain and even grows the part of the brain that people connect with their current surroundings and activities.

are claims about the effects of meditation most likely scientific or pseudoscientific?

not pseudoscientific, because people have made claims about it but scientific observations have not been made