We entrust our health and our lives at our doctors. We give them our trust especially by taking the medications that they prescribe. We entrust them that with their prescriptions, our ailments would be healed or somehow be alleviated.
Morgan Lord of Men's Health, have conducted a survey among doctors. They asked a number of doctors "Which medications would you skip?". Here are the top 8 responses:
Advair
Advair is a medication used to supposedly to combat Asthma. However, studies have shown that regular intake of LABA's can increase the severity of Asthma attack. This may be due to component long-acting beta-agonist (LABA) salmeterol.
Avandia
Avandia has a component called rosiglitazone which is known to increase the probability of a heart attack. According to Lord, "Last September, a Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) study found that people who took rosiglitazone for at least a year increased their risk of heart failure or a heart attack by 109 percent and 42 percent, respectively, compared with those who took other oral diabetes medications or a placebo."
Celebrex
Celebrex is known as a pain-reliever. But according to a 2005 New England Journal of Medicine study, the biggest threat is to your heart: People taking 200 mg of Celebrex twice a day more than doubled their risk of dying of cardiovascular disease. Those on 400 mg twice a day more than tripled their risk, compared with people taking a placebo.
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So before you purchase that prescriptions, check the list, and if you find one drug listed above, you might want to discuss it with your doctor. Better be safe than sorry.
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