Cardiologist names 6 deadly drug combinations

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As soon as we feel bad, we immediately start reaching for the home medicine cabinet. As a rule, it has a basic set of medications. We start taking them, and we don't even think about whether they can be combined.

The head physician, a cardiologist, talked about which medications should never be combined. Moreover, together they become deadly dangerous.

Yes, the tablets, powders, capsules, and solutions that we constantly use to treat headaches, coughs, colds, and allergies can start to conflict with medications prescribed for the treatment of various chronic pathologies.

Variants of dangerous combinations of medications
– The instructions contain information about this, so if, in addition to basic therapy for hypertension, coronary heart disease, or some other chronic disease, you need to take another drug, first tell your doctor or study the instructions. It’s not that your main medications may not work. Everything is more dangerous. After all, some combinations of medications can be life-threatening.

Cough and allergy medications
If a person is allergic, and a cold appears on their background, many people run to buy syrups and tablets. And this is very dangerous. Many anti-cough and anti-allergy drugs that are sold without a prescription may contain components that are similar in action. Such joint use of medications can provoke an accumulation of toxic substances.

Their sedative effect can quickly increase, which is dangerous for people and drivers whose work requires extreme concentration.

Such combinations can also cause appetite disorders, negatively affect sleep, and make a person lethargic and inhibited.

Painkillers and antidepressants
Patients with depression often feel pain in different parts of the body, which appears under the influence of external factors. To alleviate it, painkillers that are sold without a prescription are often used. And they are not recommended against the background of taking antidepressants.

Anticoagulants and aspirin
Doctors prescribe anticoagulants to quite a lot of patients in order to cure vascular thrombosis. But because of ARVI, many people start looking for salvation in aspirin. After all, this drug – in addition to the basic one – also has a specific antiplatelet effect. That is, blood thinning and a decrease in its clotting ability. A similar effect can lead to life-threatening bleeding.

Medicines for colds together with MAO inhibitors
Drugs of the monoamine oxidase (MAO) inhibitor type are prescribed during depression therapy or prevention parkinsonism.

Patients with similar diseases can catch a cold and buy a cold spray with a vasoconstrictor effect at the pharmacy, take tablets with paracetamol and aspirin, which can lead to a serious hypertensive crisis:

– Such a crisis is difficult to stop, it can even threaten a person with death from complications , concluded expert.