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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: 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.