Medicines for nausea can kill

Commonly used medicines for nausea and vomiting, as it turned out, a third increase the risk of blood clots. Meanwhile, a potentially life-threatening complications.
British scientists have found that millions of people take a variety of medication for nausea and vomiting Really deadly risk. This is the so-called atypical antipsychotics Such as risperidone, olanzapine, quetiapine, ziprasidone, sertindole. Typically, they are used to treat schizophrenia, but often discharged and how medicines for vomiting, nausea And vertigo.

The researchers warn that these drugs should be used more cautiously. In the course of observations on more than 100,000 patients taking atypical antipsychotics , It was found that they cause the formation of blood clots   veins. Meanwhile, their high efficiency is in the struggle with nausea and vomiting being questioned.

A team of scientists from the University of Nottingham watched 25,000 patients suffering from blood clots   or in the legs or in the lungs. Data were compared with the 75,000 people that did not experience such problems. It was found that more than three quarters of patients of the first group received atypical antipsychotics .
These studies show that the risk of blood clots   when taking these medicines increases by 32%. The more atypical antipsychotics   man receives, the higher the risk. Recall that blood clots are one of the main causes of deaths that can be prevented. Only in the UK because of them die each year of 25 000 patients hospitals.

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