Best Allergy Care

Most of you remember five years ago when a scandal broke out over the side effects of the new prescription medications, Vioxx and Celebrex. They are in the nonsteroidal antiinflammatory class of medications. Vioxx was actually removed from the market. Now a British study of the older medications in this class shows that the very commonly used, over the counter, medication, Advil (ibuprofen), as well as the rest of the class increase the heart attack rates and stroke rates three times. We will see how long it takes the FDA to remove Advil from over the counter. My guess is ten years. The safest drug of this class appears to be Naprosen, available in high dose as a presription and over the counter, known as Aleve.

So I advise you to reduce and eliminate these medications from your medicine cabinets. And do not substitute with Tylenol. It has very high liver toxicity. Maybe old fashioned aspirin is our best alternative. And of course treating the cause of pain is preferred. Aquatherapy (swimming) is going to become the treatment of choice for orthopedic pain.