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, @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.