Heartburn pills infect the intestinal bacterial infection

Heartburn pills infect the intestinal bacterial infection

Scottish study showed that people who eat pills commonly used to treat heartburn may increase their risk of developing a bacterial infection in the intestine, compared with those who do not resort to this treatment.

And prevent these pills cells in the gastric secretion of acid in excess lining, which can cause ulcers and GERD symptoms such as heartburn.

The researchers examined data about 188 thousand people took these pills and about 377 thousand did not.

Compared with people who did not resort to pills treat heartburn, they did were more likely severe type of diarrhea caused by the bacterium Clostridium (Clostridium).

Said Dr. Thomas McDonald, a researcher in pharmacology at the University of Dundee in Scotland, who led the study team "that reduce stomach acid, which inhibits inflammation increases the chances of infection in the digestive system," and added that "the main risk to the pills heartburn is the occurrence of an infection in the digestive system ".

And it is used by millions around the world to address common heartburn pills that are available without a prescription in Europe and the United States, which means that the increase in the chances of infection of intestinal can infect a large number of patients.

The doctor said, and Cech Marlicz, a researcher in the intestines of Medicine in Medicine Boumranaan college in Poland, "The main problem with the use of these pills is to overdo it. This medicine is very effective and safe when covered (patients) according to the great use".