Popular heartburn drugs linked to diarrhea
Prilosec, Prevacid and Nexium may lead to intestinal distress, study finds
People on popular prescription heartburn drugs - Prilosec, Prevacid and
Nexium - seem more prone to getting a potentially dangerous diarrhea caused
by the bug Clostridium difficile, new research shows. C-diff, as it's known,
can cause severe diarrhea and
crampy intestinal inflammation called colitis.
Full story is at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10535637/

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Squirrely Jo
diclidophora@yahoo.co.uk - 21 Dec 2005 11:02 GMT
And listed omeprazole (H+ blocker) side effects is impotence!
Peter