Analgesics use for kidney failure

Analgesics and kidney disease.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently issued a report stating that 'combinations of antipyretic analgesics, taken in large doses over a prolonged period, cause a specific form of kidney disease and chronic renal failure.' This hypothesis has been widely held for many years. The NIH report may faithfully describe the consensus in medicine today, but it is not informative about what is...

Analgesics Use in Dentistry

Pain is a protective warning sign activated by tissue damage during different pathological processes. The clinical manifestation of pain is individual, multifactorial and very complex and requires the implementation of sound pharmacological approaches. The treatment of odontogenic pain is focused not only in the relief of pain but also in the suppression of causes of pain, mainly the inflammati...

Use of Analgesics in Exotic Felids

Use of simple analgesics in rheumatoid arthritis.

The usefulness of anti-inflammatory drugs in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is beyond dispute. The role of simple analgesics is less clear and has been disputed. A survey of 21 rheumatologists indicated that a majority sometimes supplemented anti-inflammatory treatment of RA with simple analgesics. A random sample of 120 RA patients treated by the same doctors revealed that 47% ranked pain relief as...

Reasons for the use of mild analgesics among English students