The Truth about Pain-Relief Drugs and Bleeding
Published in Drugs and Bleeding, Healthy Style, Healthy Tips
The Drug Utilization Review has a few things to say about your ordinary pain killer, pills that you usually take for granted. Researchers at Stanford University Medical Center classified Nonsteroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs (NSAIDs) into low-, medium-, and high-risk categories for patient toxicity, primarily stomach bleeding, involving 8,000 treatment regimes of 4,000 patients receiving care for rheumatoid arthritis.
In America, 100,000 patients a year are hospitalized for GI (gastro intestinal) bleeding. This means that your stomach bleeds as a result of taking medicines that give relief for your headache, or joint pains and muscle pains.
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