Side Effects That Kill
© By Lena Sanchez

Subscribe to "Ask Lena Health Questions and Answers" Free Weekly Newsletter
 

West's Studio Prescott Arizona 2000

Teaming up with with Wayne Garland Master Formulas improving lives!

Click Here to read Lena's Health Story

Prescription side effects that kill in ways you wouldn't expect!

A 75 year-old woman started with vomiting, diarrhea with feelings of doom, severe weakness and loss of appetite, developed a few days after her visit to her doctor. She returns to her doctor and he says there isn’t anything he can do that she is just old… Weeks later still experiencing the problems, she falls and hurts her wrist and is taken to the ER only to discover that she is on the brink of a heart attack and ended up in CCU…

What happened?

Her doctor had put her on a blood pressure medication that made her severely ill, due to a mineral drained system created by hypertension medication therefor setting her up for imminent heart failure!

Another woman suddenly develops an irregular heart rhythm and can no longer stand up. She keeps passing out on the brink of death, according to the ER doctor. Her medications were Lozol and Medrol… Nothing had gone wrong while she had been taking the blood pressure drug Lozol (indapamide) alone, but then she had to have a six-day course of a corticosteroid called Medrol (methylprednisolone) to deal with a mysterious rash… The diagnosis: drug-nutrient interaction, according to the ER doctor. The blood pressure drug had begun to deplete her body of potassium - as they all do - which she had not been able to replace with diet. Then the addition of the corticosteroid caused her to lose more potassium sending her level crashing. Since potassium is needed for proper functioning of the heart, the woman ended up with a dangerously erratic heartbeat and on the brink of death and ended up in the hospital. Luckily she survived that episode.

Another 55 year-old woman put on a cholesterol lowering drug following stent surgery for a blocked artery and told to get her cholesterol down. Months later her doctor says her cholesterol is 160 but she needs to get it below 100 and then doubled her dose of cholesterol lowering medication. A few days later she is wracked with pain all over and became mentally foggy and physically unable to get around because of the pain… Starting falling without warning and doctor's visit found her to be severely anemic and lacking potassium and magnesium as well as other minerals that put her at risk for a heart attack! Only after a fall and taken to the ER and hospitalized for days was the true problem diagnosed. Medication induced malnutrition.

How many more like these three women go unnoticed or undiagnosed?

Heart Attacks and/or irregular or fast heart rates occur when certain minerals are missing from the body and the above examples seems rather asinine as well as dangerous when a simple supplement of balanced minerals can be added daily... These dangers are not explained by the pharmacist or physician when you are given a hypertension or cholesterol lowering prescription.

Potassium, zinc, calcium are three main minerals necessary for heart health but commonly prescribed treatments are creating a loss of those much needed minerals speeding death to the heart and body!

Does feeding the fear of having a stroke from high blood pressure have to put you at risk with Statin drugs? That's what happens daily with doctor visits. Or trying to unrealistically lower cholesterol so the drug companies can sell their wares, justify death? These are common everyday happenings but not written about nor talked about by the medical profession because they are not told nor are paying attention to what happens after a patient is given a prescription. If a drug is blocking a body’s normal action or removing something from the body, you are at risk for many health problems and death!

Potassium, magnesium and calcium depletion is not the only problems when taking certain drugs. Eating certain foods while taking prescription or over the counter medications can be detrimental to your health as well!

Linus Pauling, Ph. D stated that "You can trace every sickness, every disease and every ailment to a mineral deficiency." Little did he know how the pharmaceutical industry would help that along!

Here are a few risky depletions caused from taking medications;

1.Taking Oral Contraceptives Can Result in a Deficiency of folate!

2. Antacids like Rolaids or Maalox can weaken bones by hindering their mineral uptake.

3. Taking grapefruit juice with the antihistamine fexofenadine or other antihistamines decreases its absorption!

4. Taking grapefruit juice with the blood-pressure-lowering drug Plendil (felodipine) increases its absorption!

5. When taking an antibiotic you should never drink colas! Increased sugars and additives wash the antibiotic through and deplete the body of a multitude of minerals and nutrients.

6. Aspirin taken on a regular basis -- say, by an arthritis or heart patient -- can deplete the body of iron while destroying the lining of the stomach!

7. The antidepressant drug Prozac (fluoxetine) can decrease the appetite in some while increasing the appetite in others! Also decreased a multitude of B vitamins thought to be the cause people commit suicide after taking Prozac.

8. If you take Coumadin (warfarin), tell your doctor if you eat a lot of green leafy vegetables or take fish oil supplements as they can cause the blood thinner to over react with bleeding internally requiring close monitoring!

9. Large doses of zinc can interfere with the absorption of Iron, Copper and Calcium!

Balance is the key to taking supplements along with medications, but tell your doctor if you are taking supplements and what supplements! It could save your life…

If you are taking any prescription it is important to eat properly and make sure you supplement with minerals and vitamins to offset depletions caused by the majority of medications! Watch what foods or juices you ingest along with the medications as well!

Wishing you a healthy and long life!
Lena

***Lena Sanchez a happy retired Medical Office Nurse/Administrator/Consultant who took charge of her life 10 years ago and is committed to helping others do the same in all areas of life… Meet her at http://www.antibiotic-alternatives.com/lena.htm