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Inactive Ingredients in Prescription Drugs
By Nikki and Anne Heart ♥ November 14, 2024
*Although we wrote this post together, we have chosen to present the following through Mom’s eyes.
It’s unfortunate that very few health care providers recognize the importance of inactive ingredients in prescription drugs.
For years my daughter, Nikki, struggled with the drugs she was prescribed for her mental health. The only reason given to her was that she was very sensitive to the drug.
What wasn’t discussed were the inactive ingredients such as preservatives or dyes that were in the drugs that may be causing her mental health decline.
In the course of her prescription treatment, she had severe negative effects such as memory loss, extreme joint pain, trembling, increased depression, stress and anxiety, throat closures, vision changes, irrational mood swings, etc.
To this day, health care providers still don’t recognize that inactive ingredients can cause severe reactions.
Article by UCSF regarding inactive ingredients in medication
Recently I came across an interesting article published by the UCSF (see below), regarding inactive ingredients in medication.
This article suggests more research needs to be done in this area. Something I strongly agree with.
Regrettably, this important area is not looked at seriously.
From my daughter’s experience, she was prescribed more and more drugs, due to her increase mental health symptoms. Symptoms that were being caused by the medication.
If these inactive ingredients were eliminated in the drugs she was prescribed, could the medication have been more beneficial in her treatment as well as many others?
Of course, there is a need for some inactive ingredients such as coloring to distinguish different medications from one another and preservatives to help maintain self-life.
But overall, there still needs research to come to some balance.
Sources used:
- University of California San Francisco, Some “Inert” Drug Ingredients May Be Biologically Active, access November 8, 2024
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Note: All information in “Nikki’s Story” are based on detail journals covering seven years of Nikki’s life on prescription drugs.
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