2017/01/10
Medicines that reduce heartburn may also increase the risk of gastrointestinal infections
From The Washington Post: Most heartburn drugs reduce the production of the stomach acids that cause the burning pain. Might this lower acidity also have less desirable effects? The studyThe researchers analyzed data on 564,969 people, most of them 20 to 80 years old, including 188,323 who had been prescribed acid-suppressing medications. These drugs included proton-pump inhibitors (such as Nexium, Prilosec and Prevacid) and histamine blockers, also called H2-receptor antagonists (such as...