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HEARTBURN MEDICATION LINKED TO STROKE Proton pump inhibitors treat heartburn, but according to a study these drugs increase people's overall stroke risk by more than 20%.  A popular category of heartburn medications – including Nexium, Prevacid, Prilosec & Protonix – may increase your risk of stroke, a new study suggests. The study lead author is …
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This is a great piece which goes some way to explaining why I am always wittering on about low stomach acid. It's making the point that suppressing stomach acid leads to poorer digestion and to larger protein fragments in the gut, which all leads to a higher allergy risk. Interesting. In fact, most people on …
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Saw this in The Telegraph this morning. Motilium is one of the most popular acid reflux/heartburn/gastritis drugs and the MHRA has now restricted its use because of heart side-effects causing death. It should now not be used for heartburn, reflux or feelings of fullness etc, and is restricted for nausea and vomiting only, and then …
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There was a report in the Daily Mail 11.5.10 stating that millions of patients are being unnecessarily treated with expensive indigestion drugs that can cause serious side-effects. The prescription drugs - proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) - stop acid backflow from the stomach to stop heartburn.  But research into PPIs found between half and two thirds of such …
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