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Nexium: Is the Purple Pill Shutting Your Kidneys Down? - Should You Be Taking It? - The Ring Of Fire
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9:03Now PlayingMillions of Americans take a proton pump inhibitor everyday in the form of Nexium and Prilosec, but what most of these people don’t know is that these drugs come with some dangerous side effects. America’s Lawyer, Mike Papantonio, talks about these side effects with attorney Neil Overholtz.
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An estimated 15 million Americans are currently taking drugs like Nexium which work to control heartburn, indigestion, and acid reflux. Unfortunately, those who turn to Nexium and other Proton-pump inhibitors will need to proceed much more cautiously as studies have confirmed that taking these drugs increase the chance of kidney problems - and even kidney failure - by as much as fifty percent.
Proton-pump inhibitors are a class of drugs which include Nexium, Prilosec, and Prevacid which work by blocking the secretion of acid into the stomach. These extremely common medications are sold both by prescription and over-the-counter. The recent discovery of this increased risk of chronic kidney disease and even failure means that much more care must be taken in determining if a person should be popping the purple pill.
The issue with Nexium and other drugs in its class is that since their creation in the 1980s, they were considered to be very safe, with no real side effects. This led to the popularity of the drug and a much more lax attitude about taking large doses and prescribing it to any and all patients with reflux issues.
It is very possible that these drugs, prescribed and taken in such massive numbers, are being over-prescribed. Studies have suggested that as many as 75 percent of those who take proton-pump inhibitors need not do so.
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