Side effects of painkillers
Are you taking painkillers? Sub-healthy people always have all kinds of pains in their bodies: headache, stomachache, toothache and neuralgia ... These pains afflict our bodies, reduce the quality of life and even affect our mental health. To avoid pain, many people choose painkillers. Although it can make you painless, the side effects are amazing.
The anesthetic components in painkillers can relieve the pain of the body, only temporarily, but not permanently. These drugs have obvious toxic and side effects on human body. The first thing that hurts is the digestive system, which will damage the gastric mucosa of the human body, produce strong stimulation to the gastrointestinal tract, and is prone to digestive tract ulcers and bleeding.
Taking painkillers for a long time will damage liver and kidney. There have also been cases of renal failure caused by patients taking painkillers for a long time in clinic. Painkillers such as aspirin, phenylbutazone and indomethacin, as detoxification organs, will cause different degrees of damage to the liver, leading to hepatomegaly, liver discomfort and elevated transaminase.
Scholars from Oxford University in England have studied many people who have taken painkillers for a long time and found that painkillers are closely related to the risk of heart disease. Long-term use of steroid painkillers will increase the risk of heart disease. Taking painkillers for cardiovascular patients will increase the risk of heart disease.
When there is pain in the body, it will stop soon after taking painkillers, especially for some patients with chronic arthritis, migraine, neuralgia and so on. As long as the pain breaks out, they will take painkillers to relieve the pain, and gradually become dependent and addicted to painkillers, which will cause the human body to fall into a vicious circle. Long-term use will seriously damage the body shape.
Misunderstanding of painkillers
Taking painkillers for some pains will cover up the real condition. A lot of pain, especially visceral pain, it is difficult for patients to tell what is wrong. If you take painkillers blindly and prematurely, although it can temporarily relieve the pain, it is not conducive to the doctor to observe the condition and judge the lesion site, and it is not conducive to the doctor's correct diagnosis and timely treatment, because the pain is covered up after taking painkillers. In addition, after taking painkillers, patients temporarily feel no pain, but in fact, their condition may be aggravated, such as ectopic pregnancy bleeding, secondary necrosis, appendicitis perforation and so on. This temporary analgesia will cover up the real condition, make it worse and cause serious consequences. Therefore, once there is pain caused by the disease or unexplained pain, patients should go to the hospital in time to find out the cause of the pain.
In addition, there is a misunderstanding about the side effects of analgesics: some people think that occasionally taking small doses of analgesics will not damage the gastrointestinal tract, but it is not. Studies have shown that gastric mucosal damage can occur in healthy people after taking aspirin 16 minutes. Similarly, studies have confirmed that single or low doses of non-selective non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs can lead to upper gastrointestinal bleeding and perforation. Others think that taking painkillers after meals or using topical painkillers will not damage the gastrointestinal tract, which is also wrong. The damage of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory and analgesic drugs to gastrointestinal tract can be divided into two parts. One is the local irritation caused by drugs staying in the stomach, which can be relieved by taking or using local painkillers after meals. But fundamentally speaking, more than 80% of analgesic drugs act on gastric mucosa through blood circulation, which is inevitable after taking medicine after meals and using topical analgesic drugs.
Abdominal pain can't take painkillers
Sudden and severe abdominal pain, accompanied by cold sweat or sweating, difficulty in standing, pallor, etc. It is usually an "early warning signal" for visceral organ lesions. There are dozens of causes of abdominal pain, such as perforation of gastric and duodenal ulcer, acute intestinal obstruction, acute cholecystitis, acute pancreatitis, acute appendicitis and urinary calculi. Taking painkillers rashly before finding out the nature of the lesion can temporarily relieve the symptoms, but it is easy to cover up the condition, making doctors unable to make correct judgments, delaying the treatment opportunity and ruining their lives. Moreover, the external manifestations of many diseases are obscure, and the nature of pain is constantly changing. Painkillers may make the pain disappear temporarily, but the condition is still developing, and the pain may be very serious when it reappears.
Therefore, once you feel severe abdominal pain, you must not take painkillers by yourself, and don't eat any food or other drugs. You should immediately choose a comfortable location and go to the hospital with your family.
Causes of toothache
1, dental caries
Dental caries is also called "tooth decay" or "tooth decay", and the exact cause is still unclear. Dental caries may occur in both deciduous and permanent teeth. Dental caries, light loss of chewing ability, severe pulpitis, periodontitis and other diseases.
At first, you won't feel pain when you have dental caries. When dental caries begin to spread to the root, eating cold, hot, sour, salty and sweet food will cause pain. If the hole is deep, close to the pulp or decays through the pulp, there will be unbearable toothache. If not remedied in time, the crowns will collapse one by one, leaving only the roots.
2. Acute pulpitis
Acute pulpitis, commonly known as neuralgia, is the cause of particularly serious toothache. In addition to stimulating the pain caused by food, sleeping at night is even worse. At first, the pain was only intermittent, intermittent. Later, there will be persistent toothache, and the pain will spread to the head, ears and neck.
3. periodontitis
Periodontitis is characterized by frequent bleeding, repeated swelling and pain, pus discharge, bad smell and dirt on teeth. In the late stage of periodontitis, alveolar bone has strong absorption capacity, which leads to loose teeth, unable to chew food and unable to eat normally. People with periodontitis, in addition to pain, can also lead to endocarditis, rheumatic fever, nephritis and other systemic diseases.
Toothache has obvious reasons, but there are also some obscure reasons. For example, if a tooth does not sprout, it will oppress the nearby teeth; There are stones in the pulp; The crown is cracked. In addition, hyperemia of dental pulp in patients with hypertension and inflammation of dental pulp vessels in patients with diabetes can cause pain. Therefore, people with toothache should be treated as soon as possible.