Antacid drugs taken without a doctor’s prescription eventually cause gastric cancer if taken repeatedly.
Many Romanians treat stomach acidity with medicines taken without a prescription from specialists. This can trigger different types of cancer.
Octav Ginghină, primary doctor of general and oncological surgery, draws attention to the fact that some foods, but also some of the medicines taken without medical prescription can be triggering factors for some types of cancer.
“Let’s not forget that colorectal cancer has a direct link with the Western diet. And in Romania, of course, our diet is more and more westernized and, once more, we have a higher growth. Gastric cancer, I give another example, due to the consumption of antacid drugs or even proton pump inhibitors, drugs that should only be taken with medical indication, only indicated by our gastroenterologist colleagues, which are simply taken at the less acidity“, said Octav Ginghină on Medika Tv. write stirileprotv.ro.
The doctor says that they are milking young patients diagnosed with oncological diseases, something demonstrated in studies from Europe, but also from North America.
“I think any medication, especially when we consume a medication chronically, when we start having certain medicines with us all the time, then we have to ask ourselves some questions.
Why? It’s not normal for a young man to have medication on him. I don’t mean when you go somewhere far away, but usually, if you have some medicine with you, you have to ask yourself some questions. If you took them, of course, with the advice of a doctor or in a certain situation, very well, that’s the point.
But if we simply consume them, in the end… cancers appear in some chronic situations. There are things that erode, like water on stones, an immune system, a health ecosystem. These things never happen overnight. And then, for sure, many of the habits must be analyzed”added the surgeon.
