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posted by cmn32480 on Friday January 06 2017, @04:54PM   Printer-friendly
from the maybe-it-is-a-dinopeptic-germ dept.

In a population-based study from Scotland, use of commonly-prescribed acid suppression medications such as proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) was linked with an increased risk of intestinal infections with C. difficile and Campylobacter bacteria, which can cause considerable illness.

Compared with individuals in the community who did not take acid suppression medications, those who did had 1.7-times and 3.7-times increased risks of C. difficile and Campylobacter, respectively. Among hospitalized patients, those using the medications had 1.4-times and 4.5-times increased risks, respectively.

Although acid suppression therapy is often considered relatively free from side effects, the findings suggest that there are significant adverse gastrointestinal consequences of their use. "Users of these medications should be particularly vigilant about food hygiene as the removal of stomach acid makes them more easily infected with agents such as Campylobacter, which is commonly found on poultry," said Prof. Thomas MacDonald, senior author of the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology study.

DOI: 10.1111/bcp.13205

Maybe they should cut back on haggis and chips instead.


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  • (Score: 2) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Friday January 06 2017, @05:13PM

    by Rosco P. Coltrane (4757) on Friday January 06 2017, @05:13PM (#450296)

    I'm about to undergo an experimental surgical procedure to my oesophageal sphincter, to cure my GERD permanently. To that end, the surgeon told me to get off IPPs 6 weeks prior to surgery (it's experimental, so he want to measure acid levels before and after, without the interference of IPPs).

    Well, I've quit them for a week and a half, and it's hell on Earth: not only has the acid returned with a vengeance - which I expected - but I've also been experiencing immediate, explosive diarrhea after eating a meal.

    IPPs aren't as free of side effects as they're cracked up to be, I can attest to that. I've been on them for many years, and now I realize my body is completetly dependent on them :(

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 06 2017, @05:27PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 06 2017, @05:27PM (#450299)

    Give soylent 2.0 (the pre-bottled stuff) a try.
    You can order it from amazon [amazon.com] and get it overnight if you really want to.

    Lots of people have reported that a soylent diet made their GERD go away. I have seen a handful of people who tried the powdered version and got heartburn for the first couple of meals, but that's the powdered version and many more had the opposite result.

    It sounds like you don't have anything to lose at this point. If it doesn't work you are only out ~$35 +shipping. If it does help then you can decide what to do from there. If it were me, I'd try anything to avoid surgery. Ok, not anything but drinking an ultra-bland healthier version of Ensure for a few days is totally something I would do.

    • (Score: 2) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Friday January 06 2017, @07:48PM

      by Rosco P. Coltrane (4757) on Friday January 06 2017, @07:48PM (#450374)

      I don't want the hateful stuff. I'd rather have GERD and gobble pills than eat Soylent. I want to eat normally again and enjoy my food. That's why I'm getting surgery - and something that promises a long-term cure too, not fundoplication.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 06 2017, @09:01PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 06 2017, @09:01PM (#450425)

        Sad to see you are yet another adherent of literally hating what you have no experience with.
        But it is your life. You get to live with the consequences of willful ignorance.

  • (Score: 2) by Reziac on Saturday January 07 2017, @02:27AM

    by Reziac (2489) on Saturday January 07 2017, @02:27AM (#450557) Homepage

    Stop eating fibre, cold-turkey. Dr.Eades found he could cure 90% of his GERD patients literally overnight by simply removing fibre from their diets. Which basically means eat Atkins and maybe refined flour and sugar.

    Long article somewhere among his blog posts all about his experiences with this, you'll have to search for it:
    https://proteinpower.com/drmike/ [proteinpower.com]

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