It’s no big surprise to come out of the doctor’s with a prescription for a drug, we just want to get better but we rarely give second thought to what we are actually buying. We all know drugs and medicaments have side effects, but there may be more than you think, and way more serious than you would imagine. Anticholinergics, medicaments commonly prescribed to renal and gastrointestinal patients have been proven dangerous by British researchers. They work by inhibiting a chemical messenger called acetylcholine. Their effect is to help relax and contract the muscles surrounding the bladder or intestines, and to ease some symptoms from Parkinson’s disease. In this new study, which has taken into account data from tens of thousands of participants, researchers concluded that anticholinergic drugs may increase the risk of developing dementia by almost 50%. The team looked at data listing the information about prescriptions over a period o...
We are Paula and Andriy, two nursing students in Salamanca´s University. In this blog we will make health care understandable and make yourself involved in your care.