Popular Antibiotic Found to Increase Risk of Death 250%
Posted By Dr. Mercola | May 28 2012
Azithromycin is a macrolide antibiotic that stops the growth of bacteria in your body when you have an infection. It's used for treating bronchitis, pneumonia, ear infections and sexually transmitted diseases, and is known for having unpleasant side effects such as skin rashes, itching, allergic or anaphylactic reactions, and severe, watery diarrhea. It also can cause myopathy―muscle and tendon pain, weakness and cramping―if you take statins.
Since it's been shown that use of any type of antibiotic increases the risk of breast cancer in women, you would assume that this list of side effects would be enough to make anybody think twice before taking this drug. But now, new research shows documented evidence that if you go ahead and take it, your chances of dying from a cardiovascular event are increased 250 percent. And when researchers looked at people who already had heart problems, their chances of dying while on this drug were even higher. The study was recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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