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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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 06 2017, @06:17PM
Harmless and pointless.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by ikanreed on Friday January 06 2017, @06:23PM
Bull-fucking-shit.
People die and suffer huge negative consequences all the time [whatstheharm.net] because they trusted treatments some ill-informed dickbag foisted on them.
A dash of stomach acid refluxing up the throat isn't going to kill anyone, but there's no need to ignore reality just to be polite to nonsense. It's only pointless in the same way nothing serves a purpose in this cold uncaring universe of ours.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 06 2017, @06:34PM
Lol. Talking about harmless folk remedies is just normalizing fatal quackery!!!!
Get over yourself.
Maybe the problem is crying wolf - you're just training people to ignore warnings about fatal quackery.
Extremism in the defense of anything is a vice.
(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Friday January 06 2017, @06:43PM
See: you're extremely angry that I compared non-fatal quackery to fatal quackery on a pretty subjective "It's the same class of mistake" level. I even clarified the point that your whole point centrally depends on me glossing over.
The only deduction I can draw is that you are extremely angry about being wrong, and need to project your insecurities onto someone who harmlessly communicated a trivial factual correction to your worldview.
At no point did I engage in the "extremism" that you've convinced yourself is necessary to disagree with some bullshit assertion about medical effectiveness. If someone were to pedantically correct someone on this site about the difference between clock speed and operations per second on a CPU, I'm near certain that you'd ignore it as typical nerdish pedantic behavior. But heaven help you if you read someone's link, examine the evidence that it cites and raise valid field-specific concerns about data quality. No, then you're an evil anti alt-med extremist.
How about you get over yourself, you whiny goddamn hypocrite.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 06 2017, @07:03PM
> I even clarified the point that your whole point centrally depends on me glossing over.
Admitting you are doing something stupid and then still doing it doesn't make it any less stupid.
> extremely angry
Gee, your post sure comes across as really shouty. What with all the bolding and accusations.
I think you're projecting there.
How dare I challenge your scientism!
(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Friday January 06 2017, @07:37PM
"It's stupid to examine evidence and discuss it"
-AC.
Fuck off. It's only in contention at all because you have some desperate need for validation.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 06 2017, @08:56PM
Wow. You sure are projecting.
As an AC I get zero validation.
You, however are putting on a performance.
Accusing me of all kinds of heinous evil. I mean come on!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 06 2017, @09:12PM
And this, children, is why we don't feed the trolls.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 06 2017, @09:50PM
Not a troll. Ikanreed just can't handle criticism. He's got this nerd righteousness thing going on where he thinks the human component of life is unimportant, only context-free facts matter.
He's the kind of person more interested in calling anti-vaxxers stupid than in convincing them to get their kids vaccinated.
When being technically correct is more important than outcomes - not lab experiment outcomes but the totality of outcomes of people in their actual lives - then you've lost sight of the reason science is important in the first place. Its a philosophy of scientism which is really just the wrapping up of a superiority complex in the trappings of science.
(Score: 3, Informative) by purple_cobra on Saturday January 07 2017, @11:02PM
"A dash of stomach acid refluxing up the throat isn't going to kill anyone..."
Not in the short-term, no. In the long-term, it's thought to be responsible for Barrett's Oesophagus, a pre-cancerous change to the lining of the oesophagus; what that actually means in practice is that this changed tissue is more likely to become cancerous than unchanged tissue. People with known Barrett's usually undergo surveillance OGD every so often (I forget the timing for this; I've not been into work since mid-September so it's all long since gone out of my memory) to make sure that the Barrett's hasn't worsened or changed to something more sinister.
If you're over 50 and get reflux suddenly without ever having it before, or not having it so frequently before, get yourself to a doctor and get an OGD done; it could be a sign of oesophagogastric cancer and unless that's diagnosed early on, it's likely to be fatal. I only work in the backroom office of a hospital so that might not be 100% what a trained medical professional will tell you; that said, if in doubt, go and see a trained medical professional.
One other example: Smoker/ex-smoker with ongoing shoulder pain and/or loss of voice from no obvious source ? Get to a doctor and get a CT chest done as there's a possibility it's lung cancer. Don't think you need to be experiencing a nasty cough, because you don't.
If you get *any* ongoing problems that don't seem to have any precipitating factors, get to a doctor and get it checked out. A lot of nasty-sounding diagnoses are survivable if caught early enough. And Dr Search-Engine isn't a good first choice.
(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Saturday January 07 2017, @11:32PM
There aren't enough informative mods in the world for this post.