How are some pills effecfive on their own but fatal when combined with a particular other pill?
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Medicine interactions and side effects often happen due to stacked effects of medications.
1. Ibuprofen has blood thinning properties. Aspirin and warfarin do, too. This can lead to dangerously thin blood and death.
2. Heroin/morphine are depressants. That means they slow down the body. The heart rate slows. Breathing slows. Even thinking is slowed down. Guess what else is a depressant? Xanax. By themselves, morphine and xanax are perfectly safe in correct dosages. Together, they can slow down the body enough that a person’s heart or breathing can stop.
Side effects and complementary effects.
Example: A blood thinner would help heart attack patients but coupled with aspirin could result in too much bleeding in the stomach. So the effect of one coupled with the effect of the other produces an unwanted and dangerous result.
Nearly all medication come with side effects. If a medication has a side effect that complicates or increases the effect of another, it could be very dangerous. For example you’d not want a medicine that lowers blood pressure as a side effect acting alongside medication that ALREADY lowers blood pressure – the combined effect is dangerous.
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