Americans are worried. Approximately 20–40 million Americans have some form of diagnosable anxiety disorder, another 40 million have trouble with alcohol or drugs, mostly taken to reduce anxiety, and 47 million smoke. The “worried well” represent a...
Can you provide any information on the antispasmodic drug Spasmonal, which contains alverine citrate, and is made by Norgine? Can side-effects include visual disturbances?
Doctors mainly prescribe antispasmodics or spasmolytics for irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). This variety of drug has two subclasses.
Antispasmodic drugs are a huge moneyspinner for drugs companies. Sometimes, they are teamed with a tranquilliser like Librium, under the premise that a drug that relaxes all of you will also calm down your gut.
Re bowel disease (WDDTY vol 15 no 1), almost everyone with IBS, colitis or cancer of the gut is hypersensitive to aluminium. The main sources are cooking utensils,
In 1997, my therapist told me that my leaking amalgam fillings were the reason I felt so poorly. I found it hard to believe that the NHS would use mercury, which is classed as toxic waste,
Gut hunches ... ...
Avoid wheat in bran, breakfast cereals, crackers and biscuits, cakes and pastry. Instead, try rye bread and crackers, rice cakes, oat biscuits, non wheat muesli and oatmeal porridge. Pasta is not ...
A drug for irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) which was linked to the deaths of at least five patients, within nine months of being licensed, may soon be back on the market.
Often, the short-term clinical trials, which also often involve only small numbers of ‘healthy’ patients don’t uncover the worst side-effects, which then only emerge when a drug is taken by the public at large.
Martin L. Rossman MD
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