The dangers of mixing drugs - Céline Valéry
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Which of the following is risky behavior: a person taking cholesterol medicine with grapefruit juice? Or a person taking Acetaminophen before going out for drinks? Or a person on blood thinners who takes an aspirin? Turns out, all of them are risky. Each has inadvertently created a drug interaction that could lead to serious complications. Céline Valéry describes the dangers of mixing substances.
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Give me three why you should not mix drugs.
Can taking Advil and then drinking alcohol after, good or bad for your body? Why?
because some tablets need something to go down with its impossible
1. The risk of death is high if you take joint medicine and sleeping pills together.
2. Taking painkillers such as Tylenol and aspirin together with general cold medications can damage the gastrointestinal wall, cause gastritis or stomach ulcers.
3. Take medication after drinking or use Bacchus as water to take painkillers.
Eating can be a problem.
4. Combining common cold medication with panpirin results in more than twice as many medications of the same substance.
Taking painkillers and Bacchus together is a risk of excessive caffeine.
5. There is a risk of increasing brain pressure if taken with some antibiotics such as neotigasone and demeclocyclin, the most widely used psoriasis treatments.
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