DRUGS group of Non Steroid Anti Inflammatory Drugs (NSAIDs) commonly used as an arthritis pain reliever. But behind these benefits, NSAIDs have harmful side effects, namely causing gastric injury.
The process of gastric damage caused by NSAIDs occur directly and systemically. Directly, NSAIDs are irritating to the stomach. Moderate systemic NSAIDs also reduce the amount of blood flow to the stomach, triggering the emergence of free radicals and damage to the hull protective factors. As a result of two activities, the gastric mucosa or lining of the stomach is damaged and subsequent peptic ulcers arise.
Difficult, although disruption experienced by people with quite severe, but often the patient does not feel the symptoms, sudden bleeding. This happens because in addition to NSAIDs inhibit arthritic pain also block the pain inflicted injury in the stomach. Therefore, the mortality rate due to side effects of NSAIDs is high. In America, NSAIDs gastropathy including one cause of death. The data in the United states, the risks of using NSAIDs can cause the formation of ulcers symptoms at one of 70 users of NSAIDs, and cause upper gastrointestinal bleeding in one of 150 drug users rheumatism.
Clearly, NSAIDs are widely used as Chemical Drugs (BKO) is added to the arthritic herbal products that can be easily obtained by the public. This is potentially harmful to users. Therefore, the use of NSAIDs should be by prescription.
NSAIDs gastropathy many happen to people who have risk factors. Some of these risk factors, among others, aged 60 years and over, never suffered from peptic ulcers and consume more than one type of NSAIDs. To be safe, NSAIDs are usually used in conjunction with gastric protective drugs.
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