The chance of getting pneumonia is three times higher for critically ill persons who gets treated through famous acid reflux medications. This has been found at th end of the research by Wake Forest University School of Medicine

Pneumonia acquired in the hospital is the leading cause of infection-related death among critically ill patients. Pneumonia increases the average length of the hospital stays by seven to nine days. It also increases the cost of care and risk of other complications.

David L. Bowton, MD, senior researcher, head of the Section on Critical Care in the Department of Anesthesiology, said, “As best we can tell, patients who develop hospital-acquired pneumonia or ventilator-acquired pneumonia have about a 20 to 30 percent change of dying from that pneumonia. It’s a significant event.”

The Wake Forest study was published in a recent issue of the journal Chest. It compared acid reflux treatment of two drugs: ranitidine (Zantac TM) and pantoprazole (Prilosec TM). Both of these drugs decrease stomach acid. Prilosec has become the acid reflux drug of choice in many hospitals because it is more powerful than Zantac. However, an analysis of 834 patients showed that hospitalized cardiothoracic surgery patients treated with Prilosec were three times more likely to develop pneumonia.

Co-author of the journal Marc G. Reichert, pharmacy coordinator for surgery at the Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center said “We conducted this study, in part, because we thought we were seeing more pneumonias than we were used to having,”.

Very serious ill patients who are with breathing support are very much vulnerable to pneumonia when lungs gets affected due to refluxes of stomach acid. Bacteria gets more comfortable with stomach when the acids in the stomach gets reduced. It is said by Bowton that ranitidine (Zantac) should be used in cases where an acid reflux drug is needed. From early days physicians have prescribed these acid reflux drugs to the patients. But now it should be seriously considered whether it’s more good or more bad.

It is said by Reichert that “Stopping the drugs earlier appears to be the best thing for patients,”

Acid reflux drugs carry risks for all individuals, not just the chronically ill. Prilosec, for example, which is commonly prescribed for heartburn, commonly causes headache and diarrhea. OTC Prilosec is available, but that does not it’s safe simply because you can get it without a prescription. Drugs are toxic substance which disturb the homeostasis within the body. Illness results from a disruption of this delicate balance. In fact, some acid reflux drugs can actually contribute to the problem of acid reflux with long-term use.

Natural solutions are always better than medications for acid reflux. Natural remedies consist of factors such as changing the diet, reducing the stress. By changing the diet to natural food, by reducing stress one of the patients who suffered from acid reflux is able to completely heal from the suffering. He has been completely cured without the help of those dangerous medications.

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