The medications we have in pharmacies are not, in any case, harmless products that we should take lightly. Fortunately, science has advanced so much that there are drugs to help us in a large number of health problems, and that they mitigate the symptoms, but that they need the prescription of a doctor to be effective, and to be the professional who Weigh the risk/benefit ratio.
In the context of the fans to self -medicate from the Spaniards, which has increased significantly in the last year according to the VI STUDY HEALTH AND LIFE From Aegon, this harmful practice for our health makes us take serious risks. Among them, the cardiologist Aurelio Rojas puts the focus on Two specific medications, which we use quite regularlyand that numerous research relate to the danger of causing serious heart problems, including heart attack.
Medications must be prescribed by the doctor
Although in Spain there are a large number of medications that do not need prescription, health managers never recommend that we take them without the Medical Council. Having drugs such as Paracetamol or ibuprofen is a temptation that, although it achieves the objective of Relieve pain or inflammation momentary, it is also a medium and long term risk.
Precisely for that reason, to assess the proportion between the potential result and the predictable risk, according to the health characteristics of each person, it is the doctor who should decide if it is convenient to medicate with one drug or another. Such is the danger they contain, that some of them are related to the increased risk of a heart attack or some types of cancer.
The cardiologist Aurelio Rojas warns in his social networks of the danger to the health of the heart that can assume the frequent consumption of two concrete medications, which are also for usual use in all Spanish homes: Ibuprofen, and omeprazole.
Risks of anti -inflammatories: from hypertension to stroke
The expert begins by focusing on his warning on the so -called non -steroidal anti -inflammatories, which we can prosecute pharmacies without recipe. Among them, the most consumed by the population are Ibuprofen, naproxen and dexketroprofen, “Medications that can become harmful if you use them frequently, in the long term or high doses, since they increase the risk of developing problems such as hypertension, heart failure, infarction or stroke.”
In all cases, before self -medicating with an anti -inflammatory, we should consult with the doctor, because perhaps our medicine should be Another type of analgesic. Let’s not forget that anti -inflammatories of this type “when they take a lot, have the ability to add your platelets and get the blood vessels, which increases the risk of hypertension.”
Abusing omeprazole could cause arrhythmias
The second medication in which cardiologist asks for caution is omeprazole, usually used against stomach acidity, ulcers and reflux gastroesophageal, under the name of ‘gastric protector’.
The doctor’s argument is based on the fact that some recent studies suggest that the use of this drug so present in homes, in the long term, “could be associated with a Greater risk of low magnesium levels. It could even cause cardiac arrhythmias. “
In other cases, this type of IBPS medications (Protons pump inhibitors) “They can interfere with the correct absorption of essential nutrients that are crucial to maintain cardiovascular health.” For all this, the cardiologist proposes not to use omeprazole in a chronic way except for medical prescription. In this case, “supplementation with citrate or bisglycinate magnesium would be recommended,” he concludes.
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