Drug Combinations You Should Avoid
Note to seniors (and anyone else) mixing prescriptions with painkillers and/or their favorite dietary supplements: Don’t do it until you check with your doctor to make sure they don’t interact to cause you harm. A new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association shows that 1 in 25 people in their late 50s and older is risking dangerous drug interactions by mixing, for example, the blood thinner warfarin with garlic pills. That’s right, garlic pills are drugs, Deborah Kotz reports. So, too, are potassium and niacin supplements. Or you should think of them that way, says study coauthor Stacy Tessler Lindau, an assistant professor of medicine-geriatrics at the University of Chicago School of Medicine. Consider these five dangerous drug combinations that you need to avoid.
To ensure that you’re taking your medications safely, incorporate these four ways to avoid dangerous drug errors and these medicine safety tips into your routine. U.S. News reported last year that shoddy and fraudulent pharmaceutical products are a growing threat.
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