Have you seen the comedy, “The Castle”? In it, the lead character likes to buy odd things and keep or resell them, and when something is ridiculously overpriced, he exclaim, “He’s dreamin’!” As a chiropractor, I unfortunately meet a lot of people who are dreamin’ when it comes to their health. They keep hoping that a new drug, or a new combination of old drugs, will finally make them healthy again! But, new medical “breakthroughs” can’t reverse years of health abuses. And, often, the “mix and match” approach to “symptom relief” is often quite dangerous. A case in point, a new study has found that older adults on blood pressure drugs known as calcium channel blockers could suffer dangerous drops in blood pressure if they are given certain antibiotics like erythromycin (brands like E-Mycin) or clarithromycin (Biaxin).
I say that it’s important to take good care of one’s health in general, lose the weight and get exercise to lower blood pressure, so that if and when there is a “true emergency” like an infection, taking it won’t lead to needlessly dangerous results!
Source: Reuters