Donna Johnstone is living with chronic kidney disease after taking a popular medication for reflux for 20 years.
When Donna Johnstone began suffering from reflux more than 20 years ago, her doctor gave her a prescription for a medication he assured her would sort it out.The mother, from the NSW Central Coast, began taking Somac, a type of proton pump inhibitor which works by decreasing the amount of acid in the stomach."I had no symptoms or anything, it was fantastic for that."
"If I hadn't had those routine blood tests done, I would have ended up on dialysis, because when your kidney function drops to 15 percent they put you on dialysis." But there is now a concern proton pump inhibitors could increase the risk of debilitating kidney issues and gastric cancers. "In 2021, over 23 million individual prescriptions were filled, and this number is increasing year on year."
"This is concerning given research also shows that PPIs are some of the most-prescribed medicines on the market and that consumers typically take PPIs for longer periods and at higher doses than recommended," he said.
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