Kada FDA napise nešto ovako, onda to znači da je toliko slučajeva u pitanju da više ne može da se zataska ili pripise necem drugom.
Ostaje samo advokatima da presaviju tabak jer to se tamo može.

In 1994, it is estimated that at least 106,000 people died from adverse reactions to „safe,” FDA-approved drugs (Lazarou et al. 1998). (This figure includes only hospitalized patients and does not include those people who died because of medical error such as the prescribing of the wrong drug, which also accounts for some 100,000 deaths every year [Kohn, Corrigan, and Donaldson 1999].) It is inevitable that many people, often in weakened and uncertain condition, will suffer and die from unwanted side effects.

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Nexium® Side Effects

FDA Warning: Fractures

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a safety announcement stating that proton pump inhibitors such as Nexium® may cause bone fractures.

Proton pump inhibitors like Nexium® work by curtailing the amount of acid made by acid-producing cells in the stomach. The acids aid in the digestion of food, but in some patients the acid backs up into the esophagus, the tube that connects the throat to the stomach. Such a problem, called acid reflux, can erode the walls of the esophagus over time.

Potential Problems Associated with Nexium®
After analyzing the results of a number of epidemiological studies, the FDA warned that Nexium® and similar proton pump inhibitors might be linked to:

Hip fractures
Wrist fractures
Spine fractures
Epidemiological studies take a backwards look at a certain population. Clinical studies take a forward look at a population and offer a better opportunity to get controlled results. One advantage of controlled results is that they can prove a cause and effect relationship between a medication and a patient population. Epidemiological studies can show an association between the drug and a particular effect, but not necessarily a cause and effect.

The FDA plans to review the results of long-term controlled clinical trials to determine the risk of fractures in women taking fracture-preventing medications and the affect of Nexium®.

Drug Interactions
In addition to the possibility that Nexium® causes bone fractures, Nexium® and similar drugs may have an undesired effect on medications taken by HIV patients. The FDA cautions physicians prescribing Nexium® and related drugs to be alert to such potential side effects. The agency also is updating the label accompanying over-the-counter medications to warn of potential Nexium® side effects.

Other problems associated with Nexium® include adverse interactions with other drugs the patient might be taking. These include medications to treat HIV, Coumadin™, and drugs where the acidity of the stomach is important, including Ketoconazole, Iron salts and Digoxin.

Nexium® Side Effects and Symptoms
Besides the possibility that patients taking Nexium® may develop bone fractures, other more common side effects and symptoms of taking the drug can include:

Headache
Sleepiness
Pain in the abdomen
Diarrhea
Nausea
Long Term Nexium® Side Effects
The FDA warning said the epidemiological data showed that patients taking higher doses or taking Nexium® over a longer period of time suffered more bone fractures.

If you believe that your bone fracture or other injury is a result of taking Nexium® or a related drug, you may qualify to file for a Nexium® lawsuit for injury compensation. To find out more information, contact our Nexium® lawyers today.

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A very large Canadian study has confirmed that using drugs to treat reflux enormously increases your chances of having a hip fracture -- by nearly five times after several years of taking the drugs! Often prescribed by allopathic doctors for minor or nebulous complaints such as undiagnosed stomach discomfort, these drugs are highly habit forming and tend to be taken for years afterward, no matter how minor the original problem was. Yet they may be among the riskiest drugs prescribed today, leading directly to osteoporosis for far too many. Losec, Prevacid, NEXIUM, Pantoloc and Pariet are the most recent, most powerful, and most problematic of these drugs; but Zantac and other first generation proton-pump inhibitors are only somewhat less dangerous, and then only somewhat less dangerous precisely because they are somewhat less effective.

The problem? You need acid to absorb calcium. Cut down on your available stomach acid after you've eaten and the calcium you can't absorb, but need, has to be taken directly out of your bones. Over just a few years, the study shows, this more than doubles your risk of fracture, and the odds keep climbing steeply after that. Yet these drugs are commonly taken, not just for years, but for decades! That's because a lack of calcium also causes -- wait for it... yup, reflux. Excess acid is most easily controlled by having the body release a little calcium into the mix. As well, calcium increases gut mobility, which is important because medical researchers say that reflux „is primarily a motor disorder.”

This means that if you aren't absorbing much calcium due to the reflux drugs you're taking, and don't have calcium to spare, you're back to reflux -- and reaching for another pill, or an even stronger pill. So it's no accident that pharmaceutical companies have reaped such extraordinary profits from these drugs over the last year or two; these are the perfect drugs: they both treat the symptoms and cause the disease they „treat.” That's allopathic medicine's perfect profit scenario, and it has kept the drug companies floating in profits, despite having fewer new wonder drugs in the pipeline, and drastic problems with many recently introduced drugs.

While stomach bleeding (often caused by overuse of NSAID painkillers such as Aspirin and Advil) can be life threatening, and so reflux sometimes has to be treated by any means available; proton pump inhibitors are clearly adding hugely to the public's burgeoning health care costs, at the same time as the Drug companies that shoved them onto the market are running to the bank giggling.

As someone once remarked, often the best course of action is to „Just say no!” Even brief use of these drugs may cause even sharper episodes of reflux when they are discontinued. If your doctor naively continues to prescribe them to you, you may be in for a world of hurt later on. Even after you stop the drugs, it may be years before your body can restore a proper calcium balance so that your reflux vanishes on its own.

There are many articles offering natural alternative treatments for reflux you might wish to consult; including Apple Cider Vinegar, eating more greens and vegetables, green supplements such as spirulina and marine phytoplankton (for a better ph-balanced diet -- the editor's choice is Oceans Alive from Sunfood, and he swears he isn't getting a kickback from them), supplements of calcium, and so forth.

Possibly even more important -- good health starts at your light switch. One of the most common symptoms of jet lag is reflux, because flying half-way 'round the world upsets your biological clock, just as staying up 'till three A.M. under light bulbs, or sleeping into morning light do. Having a rigid bedtime, getting real darkness (that means no light), using a red light if you have to get up to go to the bathroom, as well as increasing your period of darkness to an ideal nine or ten hours all helps. See (www.darknessheals.com) for more advice. Finally, and needless to say, getting other lifestyle factors under control which are badly upsetting your biological clock, such as tobacco and alcohol, is a great idea as well.

Source:

Pubmed.com research article numbers: 18695179, 15729198, 17201221, 15628717

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