Arthritis medications are easy to harm the stomach

It is very difficult to plan treatment for people with arthropathy. Arthritis medications that often damage the stomach and damage also affect the absorption of the drug.

For joint patients, the gastrointestinal tract is always the 'door' to bring the medicine into the body. But this 'door' does not always work well, but sometimes it is damaged, significantly affecting the use of joints. Stomach lesions - duodenum may appear before arthritis. But also many cases of stomach disease are consequences of side effects of curing drugs.

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Many joint drugs can cause digestive diseases to varying degrees. First, there are dozens of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, of which aspirin has been used for over 100 years. Followed by corticoid drugs like prednisolon, medrol, dexamethason .

Among the anti-rheumatoid drugs, slow-acting chloroquine, methotrexate is known to be safe, but still has gastric irritation, causing nausea and stomach pain. Colchicine-specific gout medication is highly toxic in the gastrointestinal tract, which can cause acute diarrhea, even up to a dozen times a day.

When using arthropods, patients often experience nausea, anorexia, epigastric pain, diarrhea, and constipation. There may be severe complications such as gastric ulcer - duodenum, gastrointestinal perforation. The risk of gastrointestinal complications is very high in people with a history of old ulcers, alcoholism, age or anticoagulant use.

Due to nausea, vomiting, and abdominal pain, patients with combined gastric lesions often hesitate to take medicine, even refuse to take medicine. Gastrointestinal diseases also limit the amount of drug absorbed, causing the drug to not have enough blood levels.

Some drugs aggravate gastrointestinal lesions, cause gastric ulcer, duodenum, bleeding colitis, gastrointestinal bleeding, gastric perforation, intestinal perforation . can even lead to death. .

Therefore, doctors recommend joint patients to regularly check their stomachs to notify the results of treatment for doctors to have a reasonable way to take them. Do not arbitrarily change drugs because you may not choose the right medicine that is less harmful to the stomach.