If you are one of those people who rely on painkillers to relieve their neck pain, arthritis pain, or headache pain, here is something for you that you need to know before it’s too late.
Doctors are saying that people who are taking ibuprofen and other non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs should immediately stop using these painkillers. These painkillers are not safe and have dangerous side-effects.
According to the FDA, “Non-aspirin nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) can cause heart attacks or strokes. The risk of heart disease significantly increases the longer you use Ibuprofen. You don’t need to suffer from an existing heart problem for the risk to increase, although this kind of condition increases the risk greatly.
These risks make the painkiller especially dangerous for people over 40, who already have an increased risk of cardiovascular problems.”
According to the article released by the FDA, even if you use ibuprofen only for a very short period, it can increase the risk of having a heart attack.
According to a recent research, users who used any type of NSAID in the 14 days preceding the study were 19 % more likely to be admitted to a hospital for heart failure.
Ibuprofen is one of the most popular painkillers in the world and is consumed on a daily basis by a big number of the world’s population. But the recent studies show that the NSAIDs like ibuprofen can increase the risk of heart failure by almost 20%. These studies examined more than 10 million patients and this is why Doctors are warning people to stop using it.
A total of 92,163 out of the 7.6 million people admitted to the hospital due to heart failure after they had been prescribed an NSAID. Most of them were above 77. Doctors are also saying that the risk of having a heart heart-attack depends on its usage.
But, one this is clear, these painkillers are not safe as these have dangerous side-effects. Even the Doctors have warned to stop using it immediately.