shitty drugs
The list of medications that cause kidney damage is so long that it’s difficult to determine the top ten. Therefore, I’ve chosen to list them by medication type: antibiotics, painkillers, etc.
1. Antibiotics, including ciprofloxacin, methicillin, vancomycin, and sulfonamides.
2. Pain relievers, including paracetamol and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs): aspirin, ibuprofen, naproxen and others available only with a prescription.
3. COX-2 inhibitors, including celecoxib (brand name Celebrex). Two drugs in this class have been withdrawn from the market due to cardiovascular toxicity: rofecoxib (brand name Vioxx) and valdecoxib (brand name Bextra). These drugs belong to a special class of NSAIDs that were developed to be gentler on the stomach, but they carry the same risk of kidney damage as other NSAIDs.
4. Heartburn medications from the proton pump inhibitor class, including omeprazole (brand name Prilosec), lansoprazole (brand name Prevacid), pantoprazole (brand name Protonix), rabeprazole (brand names Rabecid, Aciphex), esomeprazole
