Posted on 21/12/05
Heartburn drugs can cause infectious diarrhea: study
Popular anti-heartburn drugs such as proton-pump inhibitors that block stomach-acid production heighten the risk of an increasingly common infectious form of diarrhea, a new study suggests. Taking such drugs as AstraZeneca's Nexium and GlaxoSmithKline's Losec and their generic versions tripled the risk of diarrhea blamed on the Clostridium difficile bacterium, according to the study reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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