Feel tired all the time? Your acid pills could be causing anemia
Cops eat on the run and too often it’s fast food in between calls. If you have resorted to taking acid reducing pills for more than two years and you feel tired all the time, the two things are probable connected.
This past week Dr. Douglas A. Corley, senior author of the new study, published in The Journal of the American Medical Association reports that people who use certain acid-suppressing drugs for two years or longer are at increased risk of vitamin B12 deficiency, which can lead to anemia, neurological problems or dementia. “People who are taking these medications are more likely than the average person to be vitamin B12 deficient, and it’s a potentially serious problem,” he said.
The drugs in question are called proton-pump inhibitors, or P.P.I.’s, and histamine 2 receptor antagonists, and they are available by prescription and over the counter under brand names like Prevacid, Prilosec and Nexium. Nearly 157 million prescriptions were written for P.P.I.’s alone last year.
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