Wellness

[Jackhound Mom]

I keep hearing this disclamer on RX drugs for all kinds of health problems.

"It lowers your ability to fight infections!"  I would not want to lower that  ability.  How can all these medicines do this?

[software]

Ask the lawyers who make them disclose it.

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@Jackhound Mom wrote:

I keep hearing this disclamer on RX drugs for all kinds of health problems.

"It lowers your ability to fight infections!"  I would not want to lower that  ability.  How can all these medicines do this?

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[dex]

All medications have some adverse effects on our bodies.They are developed to help with one problem but can possibly create another.You have to decide with your doctor, given all of the facts, if the medication benefits will outweigh the risks.

[ALRATIBA]

It's scary when they start listing all the possible side effects from prescription drugs.  

Having been through some adverse drug reactions ... I'm really reluctant to take anything stronger than an aspirin!  

[Laura14]

I am going through a pharmacy course and it is AMAZING how your body interacts and does all the things it does.  It's equally amazing to me how scientists have figured out as much as they have.  

I just did the infection part and not to get too technical (I am a student not a doctor obviously) but, in a nutshell, the white blood cells have a couple different methods of attack depending on what they are trying to eliminate.

Disrupting that process by taking a drug which can do anything from affecting the cells themselves to disrupting the neurotransmitters which tell the white blood cells to turn on will "lower the ability of the body to fight infection."

[x Hedge]

Of course no one wants to take something that lowers our ability to fight infection. You take it because the benefits outweigh the risks.
You & your Dr will consider your ability to tolerate the med, and the course your illness will take if you don't take this med.
Sometimes its like this: die soon, or, take this med that will keep you alive but with compromised immunity.

[Trinity11]

I finally came to the conclusion that everything in medicine has some kind of a side effect. I used to be fearful of a lot of prescribed meds and often refused them. Now I realize my mistake and find myself in and out of the hospital. I only wish I had focused on the fact that my decisions may impact my health more than the side effects of a medication. I guess hindsight is always 20 20 though.....

[Laura14]

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@Trinity11 wrote:

I finally came to the conclusion that everything in medicine has some kind of a side effect. I used to be fearful of a lot of prescribed meds and often refused them. Now I realize my mistake and find myself in and out of the hospital. I only wish I had focused on the fact that my decisions may impact my health more than the side effects of a medication. I guess hindsight is always 20 20 though.....

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@Trinity11  I am the same way.  Never touch medicine not even aspirin if I can help it.  Thanks for the warning.  

[CelticCrafter]

The list of side effects is longer than the actual commercial and imo they're worse than the original condition they're supposed to treat.

[SilleeMee]

I've noticed 'lowers your ability to fight infection' claims have been for drugs that involve the immune system, particularly autoimmune function. These kinds of drugs help reduce autoimmune components by disabling their primary function to fight against our own cellular material but in the process it also lowers the ability to fight against other cellular material like bacteria or viruses because these drugs are not specific enough to differentiate their action(s).