In today's Philadelphia Inquirer:

http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/14022261.htm

The gist of the article is that heat causes many medication patches (including nicotine patches and birth control patches) to increase the amount of medication getting into your system. And heat is not only hot pads, it is hot showers, exercise that increases your skin temperture, etc., etc. And sometimes it can be dangerous.

Please read the article.

By Trina~moderator on Monday, March 6, 2006 - 07:43 pm:

Yikes! Very scarey! Thanks for the heads up, Ginny.

http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/14022261.htm

By Missbookworm on Monday, March 6, 2006 - 08:30 pm:

Wow! that's super scary Thanks for the warning, I was going to pick up the nicotine patch to use recently! I may just have to change my mind...