The Craziest Side Effects of Common Drugs

What do you have stored in your medicine cabinet? You likely have your go-to brand of painkiller, maybe some prescription medication and perhaps an anti-histamine. You may realize that even the most standard-issue, OTC pills have side effects - headaches, drowsiness, nausea. Here's a list of the crazy side effects of common drugs.  

 

1. Ibuprofen can burn you alive

Though incredibly rare, there are cases in which five out of every million users experience what is known as the Stevens-Johnson Syndrome (SJS), a condition which causes blistering all over the body. Patients who continue to ingest ibuprofen after being diagnosed with SJS can go on to develop something called toxic epidermal necrolysis, which causes third-degree burns all over the body - and it is fatal in 30% of cases.

2. Naproxen could make you look like you drowned 

This leading migraine medication is one of the most highly effective, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. But, it can cause blue lips and fingernails. 

 

3. Aspirin can leave you black and blue

Blood-thinning medications like aspirin are the most common and can cause random bruises to appear on your body. 

 

 4. Penicillin could make you hallucinate 

 Penicillin is widely revered as the drug that heralded in the age of modern medicine. What isn't known, however, is that it can cause patients to experience - hear, see and feel - things that aren't real. 

 

5. Eye drops can give you indigestion

From a physiological standpoint, it is unclear how this happens. But common eye drops that are used for itchiness, pinkeye and the like, has been linked to indigestion. 

 

6. And can also cause serious mental anguish 

In more serious side effects, ofloxacin can cause temporary confusion about identity, place and time and can also impede the ability to use or understand human language. 

 

7. Testosterone will deplete your sperm count

The increasingly popular drug that's supposed to make you stratospherically manlier has one of the most ironic of side effects: it depletes your sperm count. 

 

8. Prednisone can make you shorter 

Prednisone is a common steroidal medication that is used to treat everything from asthma to gout, to ulcerative colitis, can cause a decrease in height. 

 

9. Sleeping pills will make you do inadvertent cardio

Sleeping pills will put you into a deep sleep - sometimes, so deep, you may develop a case of parasomnia, or what is better known as 'sleepwalking'. 

 

10. Prozac can make you thirsty 

Prozac has one of the strangest side effects out there, even doctors don't entirely know why it occurs. Prozac gives you a near unquenchable level of thirst. 

 

This is only for your information, kindly take the advice of your doctor for medicines, exercises and so on.   

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6 of the Most Important Drug Discoveries Ever

Author Michael C. Gerald penned The Drug Book, in which he details 250 important milestones in the history of drugs. Gerald, who also happens to be a professor emeritus of pharmacy at the University of Connecticut, was asked to pick the six most important drug milestones to date. Here’s what he chose:

1
Gout has long been considered a disease of the wealthy due to the fact that it tends to be caused by overindulgence in rich foods and alcohol. Famous sufferers include King Henry VIII, Thomas Jefferson, Martin Luther, Charles Darwin, and Benjamin Franklin.

The American Founding Father used Colchicum extract while serving as Ambassador to France between 1776 and 1785, introducing the drug to his fellow Americans upon his return. Colchicine is well-known for its ability to relieve pain and swelling brought on by gout, but it’s also toxic.

2. Arsenic
Arsenic is more well-known for being a poison than for anything else, however, it first rose to prominence in a medical capacity during the 18th century. It was prescribed for ailments such as syphilis and trypanosomiasis, but it has since been superseded by modern antibiotics.

British chemist James Marsh was the man to develop an irrefutable and highly sensitive chemical test for the presence of arsenic in 1836, and this led to fewer people being poisoned with it as a result!

3. Absinthe

The Swiss were the first to manufacture absinthe in the 1790s, and were also among the first Europeans to outlaw it just a century later. In the intervening years, it was made infamous by the likes of Vincent van Gogh, Monet, Picasso, Rimbaud and Oscar Wilde, who were widely known to enjoy drinking the stuff while living in France.

 Absinthe made a return to the mainstream in the 1990s, when it was returned to the store shelves. In terms of its medical uses, it’s excellent for sterilizing things due to its very high alcohol content, as well as for treating various digestion problems, such as loss of appetite, an upset stomach, gallbladder disease and intestinal spasms.

4. Pure Food and Drug Act
Many of the 20th century’s best-selling medicines didn’t only claim to treat a whole range of different ailments, but actually claimed to cure them too. These include cancer, infertility, tuberculosis, epilepsy and “female complaints”, among many others.

The thing is that they became the best-selling medicines of the 20th century in the first five years of it, prior to the signing of the Pure Food and Drug Act. It was the first piece of legislation enacted to protect the public from unsafe (read quack) medications and was signed into law by US President Teddy Roosevelt in 1906.

5. Prozac
Prozac and other selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs for short, are the most commonly-prescribed antidepressants in the world, despite lingering questions about how effective they actually are at combatting it. There’s also no doubting that they can cause quite a few different side effects, however, they’re safer than tricyclic antidepressants in the event of an overdose.

The 1970s and the 1980s were the two decades in which the link between serotonin (the “happy” chemical in the human brain) and depression became more apparent. This led to Prozac becoming medically approved in 1987 and marketed in 1988. The drug is often prescribed for six months or more at a time in the event of a patient being diagnosed with severe depression, and this is to allow it plenty of time to start working, and prevent relapses once the course is over.

6. Resveratrol
Although the French diet is notorious for containing a high level of saturated fats, French people actually have very low incidences of heart disease. The so-called French Paradox broke into the global consciousness following the broadcasting of a TV show named 60 Minutes back in 1991. It suggested that an ingredient contained in red wine, namely resveratrol, was responsible for protecting the heart when red wine is consumed in moderation.

Resveratrol is found in the skin of grapes and in red wine and is an antioxidant that helps to fight cell-damaging free radicals. Although animal studies have exhibited the health benefits of resveratrol convincingly, such a study has yet to be replicated in humans, however, it’s widely accepted knowledge that a glass or two of red wine per day can improve heart health.

This is only for your information, kindly take the advice of your doctor for medicines, exercises and so on.     

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6 of the Most Important Drug Discoveries Ever

Author Michael C. Gerald penned The Drug Book, in which he details 250 important milestones in the history of drugs. Gerald, who also happens to be a professor emeritus of pharmacy at the University of Connecticut, was asked to pick the six most important drug milestones to date. Here’s what he chose:

1. Colchicine

Gout has long been considered a disease of the wealthy due to the fact that it tends to be caused by overindulgence in rich foods and alcohol. Famous sufferers include King Henry VIII, Thomas Jefferson, Martin Luther, Charles Darwin, and Benjamin Franklin.

The American Founding Father used Colchicum extract while serving as Ambassador to France between 1776 and 1785, introducing the drug to his fellow Americans upon his return. Colchicine is well-known for its ability to relieve pain and swelling brought on by gout, but it’s also toxic.

2. Arsenic

Arsenic is more well-known for being a poison than for anything else, however, it first rose to prominence in a medical capacity during the 18th century. It was prescribed for ailments such as syphilis and trypanosomiasis, but it has since been superseded by modern antibiotics.

British chemist James Marsh was the man to develop an irrefutable and highly sensitive chemical test for the presence of arsenic in 1836, and this led to fewer people being poisoned with it as a result!

3. Absinthe

The Swiss were the first to manufacture absinthe in the 1790s, and were also among the first Europeans to outlaw it just a century later. In the intervening years, it was made infamous by the likes of Vincent van Gogh, Monet, Picasso, Rimbaud and Oscar Wilde, who were widely known to enjoy drinking the stuff while living in France.

 Absinthe made a return to the mainstream in the 1990s, when it was returned to the store shelves. In terms of its medical uses, it’s excellent for sterilizing things due to its very high alcohol content, as well as for treating various digestion problems, such as loss of appetite, an upset stomach, gallbladder disease and intestinal spasms.

4. Pure Food and Drug Act

Many of the 20th century’s best-selling medicines didn’t only claim to treat a whole range of different ailments, but actually claimed to cure them too. These include cancer, infertility, tuberculosis, epilepsy and “female complaints”, among many others.

The thing is that they became the best-selling medicines of the 20th century in the first five years of it, prior to the signing of the Pure Food and Drug Act. It was the first piece of legislation enacted to protect the public from unsafe (read quack) medications and was signed into law by US President Teddy Roosevelt in 1906.

5. Prozac

Prozac and other selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs for short, are the most commonly-prescribed antidepressants in the world, despite lingering questions about how effective they actually are at combatting it. There’s also no doubting that they can cause quite a few different side effects, however, they’re safer than tricyclic antidepressants in the event of an overdose.

The 1970s and the 1980s were the two decades in which the link between serotonin (the “happy” chemical in the human brain) and depression became more apparent. This led to Prozac becoming medically approved in 1987 and marketed in 1988. The drug is often prescribed for six months or more at a time in the event of a patient being diagnosed with severe depression, and this is to allow it plenty of time to start working, and prevent relapses once the course is over.

6. Resveratrol

Although the French diet is notorious for containing a high level of saturated fats, French people actually have very low incidences of heart disease. The so-called French Paradox broke into the global consciousness following the broadcasting of a TV show named 60 Minutes back in 1991. It suggested that an ingredient contained in red wine, namely resveratrol, was responsible for protecting the heart when red wine is consumed in moderation.

Resveratrol is found in the skin of grapes and in red wine and is an antioxidant that helps to fight cell-damaging free radicals. Although animal studies have exhibited the health benefits of resveratrol convincingly, such a study has yet to be replicated in humans, however, it’s widely accepted knowledge that a glass or two of red wine per day can improve heart health.

this is only for your information, kindly take the advice of your doctor for medicines, exercises and so on.     
https://gscrochetdesigns.blogspot.com. one can see my crochet creations  
https://gseasyrecipes.blogspot.com. feel free to view for easy, simple and healthy recipes    
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